Driving through roadworks in an emergency
Discussion
Travelling eastbound up the M3, there is currently a contraflow near junction 4 (Farnborough).
The shut lane (lane 1) appears empty as far as digging up the road goes, and is separated from the running lanes by a concrete barrier.
During slow moving traffic, your car suddenly loses all power. You stick your hazards on & manage to coast out of the live lane through one of the few gaps in the concrete barrier and into the roadworks zone, which as luck would have it you happen to be right next to.
After flapping about for 1 minute, you try restarting. It works! Must have been some intermittent electrical fault…
Problem being, it would be dangerous to reverse out back onto the live lanes of traffic: the only way to proceed is to drive 1.5miles down the closed (albeit completely empty) lane and merge with traffic at the end where the construction zone traffic would exit.
Is there anything in the above you could be prosecuted for?
The shut lane (lane 1) appears empty as far as digging up the road goes, and is separated from the running lanes by a concrete barrier.
During slow moving traffic, your car suddenly loses all power. You stick your hazards on & manage to coast out of the live lane through one of the few gaps in the concrete barrier and into the roadworks zone, which as luck would have it you happen to be right next to.
After flapping about for 1 minute, you try restarting. It works! Must have been some intermittent electrical fault…
Problem being, it would be dangerous to reverse out back onto the live lanes of traffic: the only way to proceed is to drive 1.5miles down the closed (albeit completely empty) lane and merge with traffic at the end where the construction zone traffic would exit.
Is there anything in the above you could be prosecuted for?
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