Being stranded is a different experience when there is nobody around. A flat in the middle of Hitchin on a Saturday is an inconvenience. The same flat out on a lane towards Oughton Head at ten at night, with no traffic and no lighting, feels like something else altogether, and it is worth saying plainly that the feeling is normal and the situation is manageable.
A few things help. Stay with the car if you feel safer in it, doors locked and hazards on, and sit in the passenger seat rather than the driver's seat so you are not the obvious person to approach. Tell somebody where you are, by message if you would rather not talk. When you ring us, say that you are on your own, because it changes how the call is handled. Our driver will ring on approach so that the first vehicle pulling up behind you is one you are expecting rather than one you are wondering about, and we will confirm the van and its registration if you would like that. None of it is an unusual thing to ask for. Most people never think to ask, and most of them would have had a better half hour if they had.
Somebody else driving your car and ringing you about a flat is a normal Tuesday. It does not complicate anything. Whether it has stopped in Poets' Estate or over in Town Centre, it is one call. Old tyres leave Oughton Head, Bearton and Hertfordshire with us, every time. You watch it happen in Town Centre, or at the kerb in Poets' Estate.
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Hitchin is a market town that runs out into open country very quickly. Once you are past Bearton or Walsworth and onto the lanes there is no lighting, very little passing traffic and nowhere to walk to. If a tyre goes out there the practical side is simple enough. What matters more is that you should not be talking yourself into driving on it just to reach somewhere that feels friendlier. Stop, say you are alone when you ring, and the van comes to you.
No traffic, no lighting and a driver rather more unsettled than she wanted to admit to. We rang two minutes out so she knew the headlights coming up behind her were ours, and that made the last part of the wait a completely different experience.
Well off the carriageway with room to spare, so sitting inside with the doors locked was the right call rather than standing on a verge in the dark. We came to the passenger door on arrival rather than the driver's side.
He stayed on a call with someone for the whole wait near Walsworth, which cost nothing and helped a good deal. There is nothing soft about that. Waiting alone at a roadside is genuinely unpleasant and there is no prize for enduring it in silence.
If the car is well off the road and in no danger of being struck, yes. Doors locked, hazards on. If you are close to moving traffic that changes everything and you need to be out and well back instead, which is the one case where standing outside is the safer option.
Yes, and say when you ring that you would like that. Our driver calls on approach and can confirm the van and its registration, so you know exactly who is pulling in behind you.
Direction of travel, the last place name you passed and anything you can see, such as a gateway or a junction. The lanes towards Oughton Head and Westmill all look alike in the dark, so one landmark is worth a great deal.
If there is somewhere sensible to wait, yes, and we ring when we reach the car. In the town centre that is easy enough. Out on a lane it usually is not, which is why those calls are treated as more urgent.
We work 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and a driver alone on an unlit road is exactly the sort of call that moves up the list rather than down it.
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