Revision question · Band 1 road procedure

You're driving on a motorway. You see a large box fall onto the road from a lorry. What should you do if the lorry doesn't stop?

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Stop in a place of relative safety and call 999

Catch up with the lorry and try to get the driver's attention

Stop close to the box until the police arrive

Drive over to the hard shoulder, then remove the box

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Stop in a place of relative safety and call 999This was the right answer

Do not retrieve an object from a motorway or another high-speed road. Continue to a place of relative safety, stop there and call 999 with the location. Do not stop on the carriageway or hard shoulder to retrieve it. This is the current Highway Code Rule 280 procedure, replacing the archive's instruction to seek the next emergency telephone.

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Rule 280Highway Code rule · Current corrected wording requires a place of relative safety and a 999 report; never retrieve a fallen motorway object.

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