Revision question · Incidents, accidents and emergencies

What should you do if luggage falls from your motorcycle while you're riding on a motorway?

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Stop in a place of relative safety and call 999

Stop on the motorway and put on hazard warning lights while you pick it up

Walk back up the motorway to pick it up

Pull up on the hard shoulder and wave traffic down

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

Do not try to retrieve luggage from a motorway or another high-speed road. Stop in a place of relative safety and call 999 with its location. Do not stop on the carriageway or hard shoulder to collect it. This follows the current Highway Code Rule 280 procedure.

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Rule 280Highway Code rule · Never retrieve fallen luggage from a motorway: the separately corrected option says relative safety and call 999.

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