Holloway Road is the A1 and it was not built for stopping. Bus lanes, box junctions, cameras and buses that need the kerb, all of it working against a car that has just lost a tyre. So if it has happened to you along that stretch, the question is not really whether you are allowed to be where you are. It is how to get out of everybody's way at the least cost.
A bus lane is the worst place to sit, because you are blocking the one thing that cannot easily go round you. If there is a side street within sight, take it at walking pace and accept the tyre as the price of it. If there is not, get as far into the kerb as the car will go, hazards on, and get out on the pavement side. Then ring and say clearly that you are on the A1 and whether you are in a bus lane or a running lane, because that is what decides how fast we come and how we set up when we get there. What you must not do is press on towards the Nag's Head hoping for something better. On a road that busy, better is almost always further away than the tyre has left in it.
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 Hillmarton or over in Lower Holloway, it is one call. A Caledonian Road cul-de-sac or a Tufnell Park main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Tufnell Park or a narrow bay on Caledonian Road is usually workable. From Emirates Stadium through Hillmarton to Caledonian Road, it is one round.
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Holloway Road carries an enormous amount of traffic through N7, and Camden Road, Seven Sisters Road and Caledonian Road are not much kinder. There is very little kerb along any of them that a car with a flat can legitimately occupy, which is precisely why the answer is to stop early rather than press on. Get off the running lane if a turning is right there, stop where you are if it is not, and tell us which of the two you did.
The tyre went on Holloway Road and he took the first left at walking pace rather than staying in the lane. That short crawl cost him a tyre that was already going, and it took the car out of the traffic completely.
No turning within reach and nowhere to go, so the car stayed where it was with the hazards on and the driver out on the pavement. We treated it as urgent and set up behind the car so the lane was left as clear as it could be.
Found flat while parked, no traffic involved and nothing whatsoever to decide. Most of the Holloway calls we take look like this rather than dramatic, and they are the ones that take twenty minutes start to finish.
Hazards on, everybody out on the pavement side, and ring straight away saying whereabouts on Holloway Road you are and which lane you are in. A car obstructing a bus lane goes to the top of the list.
If there is a turning within sight, yes, at walking pace. Getting out of a live lane is worth a tyre. Driving half a mile looking for somewhere pleasant is not, and the gap between those two is the whole judgement.
It is possible and it is not something we can resolve for you. What we can say is that a vehicle which cannot safely be driven has stopped for a reason, and stopping is a better outcome than a wrecked wheel or a collision.
On the pavement, behind your car rather than in front of it, and back from the kerb. Not between your car and the traffic, and not in the gap where we will be working once we arrive.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, and sooner where a car is obstructing a main route. Tell us it is on the A1 rather than in a side street and it is handled differently from the start.
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