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Katie Dickinson (PA) & Erin Santillo

National Highways will not face corporate manslaughter charges over fatal crashes on smart motorway

National Highways will not face corporate manslaughter charges over two fatal crashes on a smart motorway, a police force has said.

South Yorkshire Police carried out a "scoping exercise" into potential charges after concerns raised in February last year by a coroner investigating the death of a 62-year-old grandmother.

Nargis Begum died on a stretch of the M1 without a hard shoulder near Woodall Services, east of Sheffield, in September 2018.

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