According to INRIX, a car is on fire on the hard shoulder.

Source: https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/live-updates-m25-m11-traffic-8526183

At an inquest into Frankie’s death, the coroner's court heard how the mother of two had pulled onto the hard shoulder when a car that was travelling at "excessive speed" lost control and crashed into her car.

Source: https://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/23568494.charity-day-held-family-mum-killed-m66-crash/?ref=rss

But were the gold-and-black outfit to dock themselves in the division’s upper echelon for the final five matches, it would be like witnessing Del Trotter’s Robin Reliant speeding past in the hard shoulder for the likes of Hibs and St Mirren.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/sport/23429737.buckle-wacky-races-intense-battle-premiership-euro-spots/?ref=rss

Driver Aidan Quirk drove the van the wrong way on the hard shoulder along the M6 and M56 before turning around.

Source: https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/dramatic-m56-police-chase-caught-27313971

Further reports detailed a man standing in the middle of the central reservation of the M65 with no top on, and a woman on the hard shoulder near Botony Bay with a bottle of beer in her hand.

Source: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23362175.multiple-calls-drunks-walking-traffic-motorway/?ref=rss

He said: 'I was driving in the car, I was coming back from a football match and we hit a traffic jam on the M1, and I was in the passenger set and I was looking out the window just beyond the hard shoulder, I don't know what its called.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11753217/Johnny-Vaughan-recounts-extraordinary-alien-encounter-friends-Lorraine.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Smart motorways involve various methods to manage the flow of traffic, such as converting the hard shoulder into a live running lane, and variable speed limits.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23466307.minister-insists-smart-motorway-safety-very-good/?ref=rss

The Prime Minister has said the public no longer has confidence in smart motorways and a dynamic hard shoulder is a smart motorway.’

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11979357/Scrap-smart-motorway-Britain-critics-urge-new-crackdown-danger-roads-announced.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

There are still believed to be cars on teh hard shoulder and an ambulance at the scene.

Source: https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/live-m25-traffic-news-medical-27013732

There were two vehicles involved, one on its side and the other facing the wrong direction, both located on the hard shoulder.

Source: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/m11-traffic-delays-after-vehicle-26929882