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HantsRat said:
It won't piggy back off airwave but 999 call will jump to the telephone network with the best signal even if it's say EE and you're on Virgin.
BossHogg - do you use Tetra/Airwave units? One assumes you do as the police can then communicate direct with you if so needed via the one terminal.
Obviously you will need to get out of your vehicle. If there is a large enough gap in traffic, or traffic is light, get yourself over to the hard shoulder to a place of safety. If you are near an orange emergency phone, inform our control room immediately. Failing that, phone 999 and give what motorway you are on, direction of travel and the nearest marker post number. Even better would be a marker plate as that gives you the motorway, carriageway and marker post number. Marker plates are 500m apart, marker posts are 100m apart.
It's happened quite a few times, in fact it happened to one of our patrols yesterday, driver had been drinking the old fire water and had stopped in lane three. Patrol approached scene under a block, police arrived at the same time. Driver was lifted and car driven to hard shoulder to await recovery.
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