Motorway crash
Discussion
What to do when there is a crash on the motorway?
3 lane motorway, dry road, good visibility, day light, moderate traffic, I am in lane 3 passing traffic in lane 2 and 1, good distance to car behind, no traffic immediately in front in lane 3. Car about 200 metres ahead in lane 2 starts to move in to lane 1, realises there is a car to the left, swerves back to lane 2, gets a tank slapper, loses control, hits central Armco at 90 degrees, bounces back, does a 360 and comes to rest nose in to central Armco. No other vehicles involved.
When the car first swerved I lifted, when they started to lose control I braked and hit the hazards, I had enough space to bring the traffic behind to a stop well before the now stranded car that had half its back end sticking in to lane 3. There are now stationary cars and a coach on the hard shoulder adjacent to the wreck, there is debris in lanes 2 and 3, lane 3 is stationary and blocked by me in a big SUV.
My passenger donned a high vis and went to the crashed car, I moved forward to put my car at an angle across lane 3 but with the front wheels pointing down the motorway, I donned a high vis and stood behind my car beside the Armco to slow traffic down if necessary.
Apart from the car that crashed, what should we all have done differently.
3 lane motorway, dry road, good visibility, day light, moderate traffic, I am in lane 3 passing traffic in lane 2 and 1, good distance to car behind, no traffic immediately in front in lane 3. Car about 200 metres ahead in lane 2 starts to move in to lane 1, realises there is a car to the left, swerves back to lane 2, gets a tank slapper, loses control, hits central Armco at 90 degrees, bounces back, does a 360 and comes to rest nose in to central Armco. No other vehicles involved.
When the car first swerved I lifted, when they started to lose control I braked and hit the hazards, I had enough space to bring the traffic behind to a stop well before the now stranded car that had half its back end sticking in to lane 3. There are now stationary cars and a coach on the hard shoulder adjacent to the wreck, there is debris in lanes 2 and 3, lane 3 is stationary and blocked by me in a big SUV.
My passenger donned a high vis and went to the crashed car, I moved forward to put my car at an angle across lane 3 but with the front wheels pointing down the motorway, I donned a high vis and stood behind my car beside the Armco to slow traffic down if necessary.
Apart from the car that crashed, what should we all have done differently.
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