Accidents
If you witness or are involved in an accident, keep two priorities uppermost in mind: bring your vehicle and its occupants to safety, then alert the emergency services.
- Drive on to the next emergency phone (orange post).
- On the motorway, there is always an emergency phone no further than one minute away.
- This is the most efficient way to alert the emergency services.
- Never attempt to cross the motorway.
- It is always safer and more efficient to drive on to the next emergency phone.
- Switch on your emergency warning lights
- Park your vehicle on the hard shoulder if possible.
- If you cannot get your vehicle onto the hard shoulder, evacuate all vehicle occupants without delay, and get them behind the safety barrier.
- Follow the instructions in the section Breakdown, to protect your passengers.
- Go to the nearest emergency phone, keeping behind the safety barrier if possible. There’s an emergency phone about every 2 km along the motorway.
- If you can’t get to an emergency phone, call 112 from your mobile phone, and give your location as precisely as possible:
- Motorway number
- Direction
- Landmark (milestone indication on panels on roadside or central reservation)
