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Road Safety Bill [HL]

My Lords, I hope the Minister may have some good news for us, but, like the noble Lord, Lord Hanningfield, I have heard the terms ““shortly””, ““early in the new year”” and ““later in the year”” so often that I wonder whether those in the Department for Transport have a calendar or clock, or whether time, for them, is measured in seasons. On 7 November, three people were killed on the southbound hard shoulder of the M1, when their car drove into the back of a lorry. The head injuries were quite dreadful. That is exactly the sort of accident we could stop. The means of stopping it are easy to envisage and to find, and it could be done very simply. I fully support what the noble Lord, Lord Hanningfield, has said and I await the Minister’s response.