Extra emergency areas to be installed on the M1

Extra emergency stopping areas will be installed on 11 smart motorway sections, National Highways announced.

The M1 in Northamptonshire is one of the routes to get the new measures between junctions 16 and 19.

This project is part of a £900m investment aimed at improving the motorway network by 2025.

The company’s chief executive, Nick Harris, said: “The majority of collisions on our network involve moving vehicles. The minority involve stopped vehicles and the risk of this continues to be higher on motorways without a permanent hard shoulder.”