botach wrote:
Nice one Ed, BUT a few years ago I had problems on the M40. I'd lost drive in L2. Traffic was light and I managed to coast to the hard shoulder. But with no drive, HOW do you pull into one of those nice "emergency refuges".And till a vehicle in trouble contacts motorway control ,the vehicle is in greater danger than before hard shoulder running.
Keep coasting... put your hazards on and pray.
To be fair i've never encountered a broken down vehicle on the hard shoulder of the m42 when it is live, they or "it" seems to spot pretty quickly and close the lane. Otherwise I expect we'd have heard of ALOT of incidents of stranded vehicles getting rear ended.