A mother whose eight-year-old son died in a motorway collision is urging the UK government to ensure all new cars are fitted with automatic braking systems. Meera Naran, 38, is encouraging ministers to make autonomous emergency braking (AEB) technology compulsory for new vehicles, which she believes would have saved her son’s life.
Dev Naran died on a hard shoulder of the M6 smart motorway near Birmingham after a lorry struck his grandfather’s stationary Toyota Yaris on May 31, 2018. Ms Naran, from Leicester, said she wants Dev’s Law to be passed to protect other families from the pain of losing a loved one in a traffic collision.
She said: “AEB will significantly reduce the number of crashes and fatalities, so it needs to be adopted as a matter of urgency. No-one wakes up in the morning intending to harm someone else, and Dev’s Law is a way in which we can keep ourselves and others safe on our roads and prevent more families going through such painful losses.”
