Good Samaritan are not the words I would use to decribe someone foolish enough to engage in this sort of behaviour on a motorway.An extremely kind Good Samaritan rescued me today by changing my punctured tyre on the side of the motorway. ...
Good Samaritan are not the words I would use to decribe someone foolish enough to engage in this sort of behaviour on a motorway.
Apart from putting his own life and others in danger, he broke the law.
You and your Good Samaritnn might want to consult the ROTR (p 121 and pps 125-126) before either of you ventures out on a motorway again.
I'm glad both of you and the others you endangered survived; you might not be so lucky next time.
The OP needed the help of properly equipped and trained motorway recovery services, not my amateur Good Samaritan efforts. The SOS phones on the motorway are designed to notify the appropriate emergency service of a breakdown / other incident and to summon help.Mathepac, wasn't it fortunate that the OP didn't require your help or else you'd have driven past afraid of breaking the law! What has happened to the old notion of helping someone in need without even thinking about it. We need more good samaritans! Hope you never find yourself in a similar situation.
Because the OP states "... on the side of the motorway ...". A rest area is by definition, off the motorway.How can you be so certain it was not a rest area?
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Section 11 of the current ROTR describes motorway behaviour for drivers in the event of a breakdown. Neither OP nor the Good Samaritan complied.... How do you know they did not behave in a responsible manner ? ... .
I have made no assumptions. I have used the info posted by OP and that provided by the RSA... Your assumptions are way OTT based on the info provided.
The average time for a vehicle / person to remain parked on a motorway before suffering a collision is about 16 minutes.
I've hear this statistic bandied about before -but I cannot believe it is not misuse of some valid statistic...
If this were the case, dozens of people would be injured on motorways every week in Ireland alone, based purely on seeing the number of cars stopped on the hard shoulder as one drives up and down the country.
I assume it's actually of the people who do stop on the hard shoulder AND were then involved in a collision as a result, they were there just 16 minutes on average?
I'm sorry to say that the only people who could supply you with that info. (members of An Garda Siochana, employees of Motor Tax Offices etc.) would be in breach of data protection legislation if they did so.