Revision question · The road

You're driving on a motorway. You look in your mirrors and see smoke coming from your rear tyres. What should you do?

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Reduce speed for the rest of your journey

Drive on the hard shoulder until the smoke stops

Stop as soon as it's safe to do so

Ignore it; this is normal when driving at speed

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Stop as soon as it's safe to do soThis was the right answer

Smoking tyres indicate a potentially dangerous defect. Stop as soon as you can reach a place of relative safety and obtain help. Use the current motorway breakdown procedure: do not assume every motorway has a hard shoulder or continue driving along it until the smoke stops.

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Rule 277Highway Code rule · Smoking rear tyres require a safe stop and assistance, not reduced-speed driving to the destination. The safe place may not be a hard shoulder.

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