Recovery driver killed

You can’t put a blanket law in making changing lanes compulsory, what qualifies the need to move over? if this was to be the case then it would require the lane beside a breakdown being officially closed if the breakdown was in process of being attended to and that just wouldn’t work out, they do this for offside wheel changes now, unfortunately half the drivers on the road in all vehicles don’t look further ahead than the vehicle in front at the best of times and couldn’t possibly see a situation developing let alone take appropriate action.

Yes most of us with a brain move over when its obvious a breakdown is being attended to, that’s only common sense but with the best will in the world when the roads are choc a bloc with vehicles…because we complicitly voted in traitors over decades who with our agreement surrendered our country to invasion of tens of millions without a shot being fired…then it isn’t always possible to do so, though we’ll try our best to keep as far over to the right of the lane if moving over isn’t possible.

I feel really sorry for anyone, and their families, who get hurt or killed on our roads just trying to do their job, but some jobs are dangerous by their very nature and anyone doing motorway breakdown work will be fully aware of what they are letting themselves in for.
There’s good reason at least one of the wombles attending a breakdown never take their eyes off the approaching traffic.

So called smart motorways arn’t going to help this, but they do have one saving grace in that where the hard shoulder was particularly narrow previously, such as in the oldest sections of motorway, they have been widened with the HS becoming a live running lane…how things work out in those sections as time goes on and traffic levels increase massively, remains to be seen.