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Re: What to do in a freeway emergency?



Wow, thanks for the responses.  However, the only advice I could really 
glean is to stay in the vehicle.  The hypothetical situation assumed 
that I could not move the car to the shoulder before it died.

And coincidentally, this weekend as I was driving south on the 405 
through the Sepulveda pass, traffic was actually flowing OK until near 
the top of the hill and soon I saw the reason why is was slowing:

A car in the #2 lane was stalled, and the driver (a middle aged man) was 
standing in front of the vehicle with the hood up!!!!  This wasn't 
exactly in stop-and-go traffic, either.

Anyone see in the paper about that fatality?  I can only assume it 
happened, or else he was extremely lucky.  




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