Would You Know What To Do

[TWR]

in the event of a Motorway breakdown?

[mikey4444]

I would call my Ford Assist number....I get breakdown cover for free as I have a new Fiesta.

[ummmm]

Depends how the breakdown happened.

[Cloverjo]

I'd call AA, or my dad. I don't drive long distances on the motorway, so I wouldn't be too far from home.

[EDDIE51]

Yes, get as far off the carriageway and onto the hard shoulder as possible then call for help. Stay in the car ! The vast majority of people have a mobile phone now so few would need to walk to the nearest emergency phone.

[bhg481]

Eddie - the advice is to get out of the car and stand at the other side of the crash barrier.

[TWR]

That Eddie is a Very Important thing.

[TWR]

Bhj, heavy rain! not much chance of that.

[ummmm]

Stay in thee car? Where did you hear that advice?

[ummmm]

TWR - I'd rather get wet than be hit by a lorry.

[mikey4444]

I think the advice too get out of the car, and then stand behind the barrier makes sense.

[TWR]

In theory Ummmm, in reality the public will not.

[Ratty2E]

Pull on to the hard shoulde, get everyone out of the car and as far away from the vehicle as practical and then go to the nearest emergency phone to call for help.

[ummmm]

That's the only advice I've been told.

TWR...I always have an umbrella in the back of my car :-)

[bhg481]

https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/what-to-do-if-you-break-down

[Old_Geezer]

Yes.

[hc4361]

I broke down on the motorway a while back. The police arrived within ten minutes without me calling them to make sure a recovery vehicle was on its way.
Big brother is always watching on the motorways.

[ivor4781]

most hard shoulders are gone near us, i dread to think what would happen if a car or other manage to get on to what is now a forth lane and stop because the driver could not make it to the so called "safe pull ins"every 1.6 miles,

[mikey4444]

Ivor....this growing practise of making the hard shoulder into a driving lane is sheer bloody madness ......complete lunacy.

[EDDIE51]

When stuck stay with your car used to be the advice.
My wife is disabled and we have a motability car. They do not advise getting out of the car, there is an emergency help line that you are told to call .

[Barmaid]

It's happened. Albeit not on a motorway but on a very busy 3 lane dual carriageway where there was a hard shoulder.

Got the kids out the car, up the side and behind the crash barrier. Stuck the red warning triangle about 10 cars length behind the car whilst OH was calling the breakdown and police. Police turned up within minutes and dealt with the traffic.

Even standing in relative sanctuary well away from danger, the speed the traffic was whizzing past was scary. I really felt for the RAC man.