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If you do breakdown on a motorway, make sure your car is on the hard shoulder with its hazard lights on and you sit preferably away from the car whilst you ring for the roadside assistance person to arrive. If you do not have a mobile phone, there are emergency phone boxes spread along most motorways
Having an emergency triangle in your car could help you be safer should you breakdown in a dangerous or fast moving road. And if you have a roadside assistance policy it can also help the patrol man to find you a bit easier. In some European countries, this is a legal requirement.