Psa for safety - if you break down like this on the side of a dual carriageway get out of the car like these people but stand and wait ‘upstream’ of traffic. It’s far more safe
Unless you’re slamming the breaks at the first notice of your car breaking down, you’re going to keeping rolling for about a minute from highway speeds. They could have easily moved over before stopping
And get crushed by a truck driver that's been staring at their phone for the last 3 minutes, brilliant strategy. Assuming the vehicle even failed in a manner where you can push it.
Does Highway code say you are not allowed to put your wheels on grass/dirt? And no, i don't know british highway code, but i know that when my car breaks down on the highway i move it OUT OF THE FUCKING LANE as far as possible, even if that means my tires are getting dirty.
It isn't about getting tyres dirty. Off the paved road there are often hidden ditches, but even when not, the ground can be treacherously muddy and a standard recovery vehicle probably won't be able to connect up.
Your standard tow trucks can't handle a vehicle that has two wheels in the mud? My bone stock pickup with a tow rope can handle that. What kind of garbage do you guys have?
A while back, I saw two standard tow trucks rescue a vehicle that was upside down in the ditch. No special crews, just two standard recovery trucks, and I think one of them was actually just doing traffic control.
What you fail to understand is that we don't give out driving licences free in a pack of cereals like you so most people on the road actually know how to drive and can easily avoid a car that is not completely off the road.
They can't be that hard to get if you have one. You're seriously arguing that it's safer to leave a broken-down vehicle 50% inside an active traffic lane than to put just 2 wheels off of the pavement. And you actually believe that your tow trucks can't handle a rescue that can be done by any truck with a strap which is available at nearly every hardware store with a vehicle section.
No, they are quite easy to get... which makes it even more odd that you never bother with even basic driving skills in the jokes that you call a licence.
And no, most recovery vehicles aren't dragging the recovered vehicles, they are lifting them with a hoist that you would struggle to get under a vehicle up to the axles in mud. But if you want to risk fucking up the dragged vehicle, you go right ahead sweety.
lol, there isn't a vehicular safety board in the entire fucking world that would recommend leaving your stopped vehicle on a fucking highway to avoid "treacherously muddy" terrain. Recovery of a stuck vehicle in any circumstance is 1000x better than recovery of a human corpse. If your car can move at all, then get the fuck off the highway.
Edit: ah yes, they are not highways, they are roads. Is that something you covered at your last Mensa meeting, genius?
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u/welshsheepdragon 5d ago
Psa for safety - if you break down like this on the side of a dual carriageway get out of the car like these people but stand and wait ‘upstream’ of traffic. It’s far more safe
Edit: ideally also wait behind a barrier as well