A bridge is the one place where the ordinary advice does not apply. Everywhere else the answer to a flat is stop exactly where you are, but a car halted on a river crossing has no verge, no footway worth the name, no room for anything to pass and nowhere for you to stand. Around Hampton that matters, because the crossings at Hampton Court and Kingston bottleneck at the best of times and one stationary car turns an awkward junction into a blocked one.
So if a tyre goes on or just before a crossing, keep moving at walking pace until the car can sit clear of the running lane, then stop and accept the tyre as the price of it. In all likelihood you had lost the tyre anyway. What you are protecting is everybody else, yourself included, and the wheel if you are lucky. Once you are off the crossing and pulled in, the ordinary rules come straight back. Hazards on, out of the car, stand off the road, ring us. On the roads either side of the river through Hampton there is nearly always somewhere within a couple of hundred yards, and the difference between stopping there and stopping on the crossing is enormous.
Two questions get answered on every flat tyre call, in this order. We come out in Hampton and do exactly that, in Hampton Court, Hampton Wick or anywhere between, then repair to standard where the damage sits inside the limits or fit a replacement from the van where it does not. A Nurserylands cul-de-sac or a Fulwell main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Fulwell or a narrow bay on the A310 is usually workable.
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Hampton's geography is water and bottlenecks. The A308 threads along past Hampton Court, the crossings back up for much of the day, and the residential streets around the village are narrow and parked solid. What that means for a flat tyre is that where you stop matters more here than almost anywhere. Get clear of any crossing, get tight to a kerb, then stop and leave it alone. We come to the car in TW12 at whatever hour it happens.
She felt it just before the bottleneck and kept going at a crawl until there was somewhere to pull in beyond it. The tyre was finished, which it probably was already, and nobody spent twenty minutes sitting behind a stationary car.
A driver on Hampton Court Road got the car well in against the kerb where there was room to open a door safely and room for traffic to get by. That is the sort of spot to aim for, and the van was alongside within the usual window.
Parked up in Hampton Village and the tyre found soft on returning to the car. No traffic, no crossing, no decision to make. Those are the calls that take twenty minutes and barely register as an incident at all.
Keep going slowly until the car is clear of the crossing and out of the running lane, then stop. It is the one situation where driving on a flat is the right call, and you make that trade knowing the tyre has probably already gone.
Often, though not always. A short crawl at genuine walking pace on a tyre that has only just deflated sometimes leaves it repairable. That is not the reason to do it. Getting off the crossing is the reason.
That is the thing worth protecting once the tyre is written off. Keep the speed right down, keep the steering as straight as you can and stop as soon as there is anywhere to stop. It is full lock turns that fold an alloy rim over.
Anywhere you can get tight against a kerb with enough width left for traffic to pass without trouble. The side roads off Hampton Road and Park Road generally offer that inside a short distance.
Yes, all of Hampton and the roads around it, at any hour. A flat found in Fulwell or Hampton Wick is the same call as one on the main road, and typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes.
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