Road rules / 🇬🇧 general

Your vehicle develops a problem on a smart motorway with no hard shoulder and you cannot reach an emergency refuge area. You should:

✓ ANSWER

Move as far left as possible, switch on your hazard lights, and if you can, exit the vehicle on the left away from traffic

Get as far left as you can, use hazard lights, and get behind the safety barrier if possible; never place a triangle on a motorway.

All the options

  1. ✓Move as far left as possible, switch on your hazard lights, and if you can, exit the vehicle on the left away from traffic
  2. ✗Stop in your lane and remain in the driving seat with your seatbelt off
  3. ✗Walk back along the carriageway to warn approaching drivers
  4. ✗Place a warning triangle behind your vehicle in the lane

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