Revision question · Motorway rules

Your car gets a puncture while you're driving on the motorway. What should you do when you've stopped on the hard shoulder?

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Carefully change the wheel yourself

Use an emergency telephone and call for help

Try to wave down another vehicle for help

Only change the wheel if you have a passenger to help you

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Use an emergency telephone and call for helpThis was the right answer

Park as far to the left as you can and leave the vehicle by the nearside door. Don't attempt even simple repairs. Instead, walk to an emergency telephone on your side of the road and phone for help. While waiting for help to arrive, stay by your car, keeping well away from the carriageway and hard shoulder.

Reviewed reading for this question

Call for help and stay clear of trafficReviewed guidance summary · The current operator guidance covers phone posture, location, safe waiting and the crucial stay-belted emergency exception absent from some archived explanations.

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