"Had the lorry involved had autonomous braking, that collision could potentially have been avoided completely and Dev could have walked out and come home to me that night. So Dev's Law and AEB really has come from that my whole campaign has been looking at every element, every factor that's been involved in Dev's death. That was a major factor involved and I truly think it's a life-saving-based technology."
"The 2018 crash piled tragedy on her family. Naran's father was driving Dev to visit his older brother, Neel, who was being treated in hospital. Returning on the M6, the car halted on what would been a hard shoulder, had it not been converted for use as part of a smart motorway; a lorry ploughed into them, killing Dev. His grandfather died a few years later, suffering from serious injuries sustained in the crash."
"Different types of driver-assistance technology, including AEB, lane-keeping and other alerts, are features of most new cars but are not mandatory in Britain, Naran, 42, a senior lecturer in clinical pharmacy at Leicester's De Montfort University, has brought her professional skills to the campaign and stressed the importance of consultation and separating the emotion from the evidence."
Meera Naran began campaigning after her eight-year-old son Dev was killed in a 2018 motorway collision when a lorry struck their stationary car on a converted smart motorway hard shoulder. The crash later contributed to her father’s death from injuries and to the eventual death of her older son Neel in 2024. Naran pushed for mandatory vehicle safety technology, including autonomous emergency braking (AEB), arguing that AEB could have prevented the collision. Ministers pledged to mandate such technologies in new vehicles as Dev's Law to cut thousands of deaths by 2035. Naran, a senior clinical pharmacy lecturer, emphasizes evidence-based consultation and separating emotion from evidence.
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