4. Watch your speed
Signs with yellow flashing lights are used to show lower speed limits when you need to slow down in poor weather conditions, when traffic is heavy or there has been an accident.
5. Only use the hard shoulder in an emergency
If you break down, pull onto the hard shoulder as close to the verge as possible and turn on your hazard warning lights. Get out through the passenger door. There are emergency phones every 1500m (about a mile). Wait for help as far up the embankment as possible.
6. Take special care at roadworks
When you drive through roadworks:
- Slow down and get into the correct lane in good time
- If there is no hard shoulder, watch out for broken down vehicles
- Don't switch lanes
- Concentrate on the road ahead, not the roadworks
- Watch out for works traffic entering or leaving roadworks
- Keep to the speed limit - normally 50mph; and
- Keep a safe distance - there could be queues in front
- Remember, speed limits through roadworks are mandatory, not advisable and are often watched by enforcement cameras
