Out here the danger is usually not the tyre, it is where you have stopped.
So the order matters. Get as far left as the ground allows and keep the front wheels straight. Hazards on. Everybody out through the nearside doors and up the bank or behind the barrier, not standing at the boot and certainly not sitting inside the car. Only then start making phone calls. A high visibility vest kept in the door pocket earns its keep on roads like these.
If you have made it into Baldock itself the calculation changes. Park on Station Road or a side street and leave the car there. The Georgian high street is wide enough to look inviting, but there is no safe way to lift a car with traffic passing that close to you.
A flat is either a warning or a failure, and it is worth knowing which one you have got. That is what happens when we arrive in Clothall Common or wherever the car is standing, and you get the verdict before anything is charged for. Tight in Bygrave, easy in Ashwell: neither stops the job. Level in Weston, sloping in Radwell: we set the car straight first.
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Most of Baldock's flat tyre calls come off the fast roads rather than out of the town: the A505, the A507 and the junction 10 slip roads, all dark and quick once the evening sets in. Getting clear of the carriageway and getting people away from the vehicle matter far more than anything you can do to the tyre. After that there is no rush.
A driver lost pressure heading towards Royston on an unlit stretch with a narrow verge. They pulled well clear and got both passengers up the bank. The van arrived and shielded the working side, so nobody stood on the carriageway side of the car at any point.
A tyre went down on the northbound carriageway. The driver came off at the junction rather than stopping on the hard shoulder, which turned a motorway job into an ordinary one on the roundabout approach. That is the right call whenever it can be made.
A car pulled onto a grass verge after a wet week and the jack pad started sinking on the first attempt. A spreader plate on firmer ground solved it, which is the sort of thing worth knowing before trying it with the wheelbrace out of the boot.
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Come off the accelerator, hold the wheel straight and let the speed fall away before steering left. Get as far off the carriageway as the verge allows, hazards on, then get everyone out on the nearside and well clear before phoning anybody at all.
Not on a fast road. A stationary car on a verge is the thing most likely to be struck, and being inside it is the worst place to be sitting. Take coats with you, get up the bank or behind the barrier, and wait there instead.
Rarely. Verges around here are soft, frequently sloping and unlit, and a jack needs firm level ground under it to be safe. Where the ground is questionable, waiting is the better decision even though it feels like the slower one.
Marker posts on the A1(M) give a precise position, and elsewhere the nearest village, junction or farm entrance will do. Ashwell, Bygrave, Radwell and Weston are all useful references, as is the direction you were travelling in.
Coverage on the lanes out towards Weston and Radwell is patchy in places. Walking a short way towards higher ground usually fixes it. If you get through once, give the location first, before anything else, in case the call drops out.
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