Right or wrong?

[Bellend]

Without going into details. Saturday 2:30 am. Side of motorway, driver to a point he can no longer drive and needs to get to A&E.

No hard shoulder so car rammed half in lane 1 and half on some grass. Everyone out the car immediately.

Fairly sober but very very very much over the limit and also uninsured driver takes over in a very safe manner for quite a few miles to next turn off where ambulance called.

It's not hot anyone in any trouble but caused a stir amongst parents etc.

Would you have done it and would said person even get prosecuted in such circumstances?

[barrym381]

Without going into details. Saturday 2:30 am. Side of motorway, driver to a point he can no longer drive and needs to get to A&E.

No hard shoulder so car rammed half in lane 1 and half on some grass. Everyone out the car immediately.

Fairly sober but very very very much over the limit and also uninsured driver takes over in a very safe manner for quite a few miles to next turn off where ambulance called.

It's not hot anyone in any trouble but caused a stir amongst parents etc.

Would you have done it and would said person even get prosecuted in such circumstances?

driving while over the limit is f**king stupid if you ask me no matter how short the journey    and with a few police members a hope they see this an throw the book at whoever it was

[dom]

Surely a call to 999 would have been a better option? In that situation (car stranded on motorway and lives potentially at risk) the emergency services would have been there pretty quickly. If everyone was safely out of the car, why risk getting back into a car with someone over the limit?!

[Carl!]

id have done it, sounds a lot safer than being stuck on the motorway with no hard shoulder, even with a hard shoulder it is a  very dangerous place! I'd rather be banned from driving than dead.

[Ridg]

100% wrong, just because you were lucky and got away with it unharmed doesn't make it any less wrong.

You should have phoned 999 from where you were and not risked the lives of anyone else?

[Bellend]

Hmm good points.

Was extremely fecking dangerous where the car was and no crash barrier to hide from so was either wait far away from the car and hope no one comes off the motorway or stand by the car and hope no one smashed it into us.

I guess it's a hard thing to judge without being there but I'd probably have done the same....

Was a risk leaving the car where it was also, sweeping bend. Not blind but still only takes a second for a car to plow into it then a lorry into the back of that.

[Sam]

I would have done it after a few pints if it was only to the next junction or what not, I would have spoken to the police about the matter if it came to that and I would be fairly confident that they would not prosecute. I know plenty of people who have got off charges due to exceptional circumstances.

[Bellend]

Yeah was literally to next junction and ambulance plus a sober driver down to take the car and passengers back!

Just caused mixed stirs with people. Some people saying they'd have driven to the hospital some saying morons etc.

Mind you it would take 30 seconds for someone to crash into it and maybe 6 mins for the police to arrive?

Ah well

[mcgee9t2]

can see both sides of the argument.

takes 2 mins for the driver over the limit to drive to the next junction...
but equally it couldve taken him 10 seconds to crash that car, kill all occupants and other road users...
but equally it couldve taken 10 seconds for a lorry to hit that car and the car to bounce off into the partys at the side of the road...


personally i wouldnt have driven. i wouldve tried to get the car as far off the road as possible, even if it did some minor damage, hazards on, rear fogs on maybe depending on light conditions etc to give a little more visability. then everyone out of the car and as far away as possible and also behind the broken down car... if someone hits the car its going to go forwards, if your stood behind it, theres no chance of that car hitting you just a chance of the car trying to avoid hitting it hitting you, so stand as far from the road as possible.

but... as long as all parties are ok thats the main thing

[Len]

Like to know where this "Motorway" is that has no hard shoulder!
It cannot be a motorway without a hard shoulder!
In some circumstances when a motorway has been widened and a bridge say hasnt there will be a short stretch of road without a hard shoulder but there wont be any grass at those points!