If a tyre has let go on the A40 or up near Junction 1 of the M40, the safe advice is uncomfortable and simple. Get the car as far left as it will go, get everybody out through the passenger doors, and go up the bank and behind the barrier. Not beside the car, not in front of it, and above all not sitting inside it. Vehicles do get struck on the hard shoulder, and it is the ones with people still in them that turn into something serious.
Once you are behind the barrier the dangerous part is over and the rest is administration. Leave the hazards going, take your phone and leave everything else in the car, and walk back along the far side of the barrier rather than the carriageway side. Then ring and tell us the direction you were travelling in, the last junction you went past and anything written on a marker post you can read from where you are standing. On the A40 through Gerrards Cross the two carriageways look identical from any description, so knowing you were heading towards Beaconsfield rather than Uxbridge saves our driver a long loop back. Nobody needs to go near the car until the van is parked behind it with its lights on.
The other three tyres get a look while we are with the car, and it is not a sales exercise. The job itself is the same either way: we come to you in Gerrards Cross, take the wheel off, work out whether the flat is a repairable puncture or a finished tyre, and deal with it there. The Packhorse Road phone and the Station Road phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Camp Road, midday in Bull Lane, the same call either way.
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Gerrards Cross funnels a lot of fast traffic through a small town. The A40 runs straight through, the M40 begins just up the road at Junction 1, and the A413 and A412 carry most of the rest, so a tyre failure here quite often happens somewhere with no sensible place to stop. On those roads the rule is get out and get behind the barrier. On Packhorse Road or Station Road it is simply stop, stay put and ring.
Two adults and a dog, all of them out and up behind the barrier inside a minute of stopping. That is the whole safety story of a tyre failure on a fast road. Everything after it was routine and the car was moving again well within the hour.
The first description put the car on the opposite carriageway and it cost a junction each way to correct. Since then we always ask which way you were pointing. On a dual carriageway call it is the single most useful sentence you can give us.
A commuter came back off a late train to a tyre sitting flat on the rim. No traffic, no urgency and nowhere he had to be, which is a rare luxury with a puncture. We met him there and he drove home on a proper tyre rather than on a spare.
On a fast road with a hard shoulder or hard strip, yes, and out through the passenger side. The safe place is behind the barrier and up the bank, well back from where the car is standing. Cars parked at the edge of fast roads do get hit.
Then it is as much a police matter as a tyre one, so ring and say plainly that you are not fully clear. We will tell you where to stand and a call like that is handled as urgent rather than routine.
Direction of travel first, then the last junction you passed, then anything on a sign or marker post near you. Around the M40 junction and along the A40 those three details beat any location a phone can hand you.
We can. The van goes in behind the car with its lights running so the work happens in protected space, which is precisely why getting the jack out of your own boot in that spot is a bad idea.
Of course, and most of the time that is exactly where we are. A drive in Austenwood or Chalfont Heights, or the parking off Packhorse Road, is a far easier job than anything dramatic. If the car is at home, leave it at home.
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