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**Chris** · 03-09-2019, 16:59

On a smart motorway with no hard shoulder, there is supposed to be real-time monitoring of traffic movement so assistance can be dispatched rapidly if a running lane becomes blocked by an accident. I’m curious whether there’s a target response time and how often it is missed. I’m also curious as to what vehicle occupants should do; the current advice is to leave a car on the hard shoulder and get a comfortable distance from it, the other side of a crash barrier if there is one, or up the embankment. So what do you do if you break down or are in a collision in a live running lane on a smart motorway?

03-09-2019, 16:59	#49
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,142	Re: 400 more miles of the hard shoulder to be removed. On a smart motorway with no hard shoulder, there is supposed to be real-time monitoring of traffic movement so assistance can be dispatched rapidly if a running lane becomes blocked by an accident. I’m curious whether there’s a target response time and how often it is missed. I’m also curious as to what vehicle occupants should do; the current advice is to leave a car on the hard shoulder and get a comfortable distance from it, the other side of a crash barrier if there is one, or up the embankment. So what do you do if you break down or are in a collision in a live running lane on a smart motorway?