1) Nathan Reeves, 23, Tom Aldridge, 20, and Allan Evans, 59
February 2015 J12-13, M1, near Flitwick, Bedfordshire
The three were killed after driver Allan stopped to top up his oil on the hard shoulder when it was closed to traffic. Alan Peters, 78, failed to see signs it was closed and drove his double-decker coach into the back of the car.
Nathan Reeves, who was killed in M1 motorway crash
2) Laura Cooper, 35
March 2016 J27, M25, near Waltham Abbey, Essex
Laura was a passenger in a car that had stopped on a section of the M25 with no hard shoulder and was struck by a lorry. She died four days later.
3) Anthony Marston, 54
August 2016 J10a, M6, near Walsall
The father-of-two was killed instantly when he was hit by a lorry on a hard shoulder that was running as a live lane. Anthony, from Telford, Shropshire, had stopped briefly to refuel his Mercedes.
4) Jamil Ahmed, 36
August 2017 J5-6, M6, near Birmingham
The recovery driver broke down on a hard shoulder opened to traffic and was hit by a lorry. His wife Badra begged Highways England to stop removing hard shoulders after her husband’s inquest heard he had ‘nowhere to go’ when he was forced to stop.
5) Sevim and Ayse Ustan
March 2018 J26-27, M25, Essex
Sevim, 49, and mother-in-law Ayse Ustun, 68, were hit by a lorry after a puncture. Overhead gantry signs did not close the lane or warn of a broken-down vehicle.
6) Dev Naran, 8, May 2018
J5-6, M6, near Birmingham
The schoolboy from Leicester died instantly after his grandfather Bhanuchandra Lodhia, 70, stopped his Toyota on a hard shoulder being used as a live lane and was hit by a lorry. Coroner Emma Brown said the changing status of hard shoulders could ‘confuse motorists’. She also raised concerns that Highways
