Grant seems to be suggesting when a car 'breaks down' it does so always on the hard shoulder. He obviously has never broken down and never seen one. They have of course been pushed into the 'hard shoulder' by the unfortunate driver or worse - other cars crashing into it in the lane in which it had been travelling when it broke down. Useless article.
While the hard shoulder could be seen as a waste of space it has in fact frequently been a lifesaver and welcome refuge in an emergency. A harrowing 2 hours was our experience some years ago when we punctured a front tyre of our P6B towing a caravan. Our two toddler girls were terrified, not least by the police who stopped, allegedly, to help.
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