The father of a boy mown down after he wandered onto a motorway is planning to sue contractors who left a gap in a fence.
Kieran Coupe, 7, and pal Guy Davies, 6, were playing in woodland near the busy stretch of motorway, when they got onto M56 through a 30-metre wife gap.
And a coroner's inquest heard that workmen mending a water leak had removed the fence without informing the Highways Agency.
Kieran Coupe's father Colin Lambert said: "I blame the contractors, very deeply.
"In my eyes, if you're digging a hole which is five metres away from a fence, you don't dig it right up to the fence, or if you do, you replace the fence. They didn't do their jobs.
"For a fence to be left like that and not be replaced, in my eyes is not doing enough.
"It's up to me and my solicitor now to work out where we can go from here.
"It's neglect, in a way. If possible I'll take it all the way to the highest court I can. To get the laws change.
"If you go to any local school or anything like that, you'll see a nice ten-foot fence around the school, to stop people from breaking in.
"People aren't going to get hurt by breaking into schools. Motorways are more dangerous and they need to be properly fenced-off."
His feelings were shared by six-year-old Guy's father, Guy Davies Snr, who said: "A lot more should be done for the safety on motorways, to stop pedestrians getting onto them from build up areas.
"Whether it be with high, no-climb fencing, or CCTV, nobody should be allowed to get onto one."
But the Highways Agency, who have responsibility for maintaining Britain's Motorway network, defended their decision not to provide a more substantial deterrent.
Their spokesman, Andy Withington, said: "The boundary fencing itself is only ever meant to be a demarkation location for the boundary.
"The Highways Agency works very hard with the police and with the road safety partnerships to make sure the awareness for pedestrian access onto the motorways is made.
"As a consequence of that we hope there's going to be no further incidents like this in the future."
On Wednesday, Coroner Nicholas Reinberg declared the death of Guy and Kieran an unintentional accident, but recommended lessons were learnt by the police and Highways Agency.
paul, north west around 2 years, 6 months ago