If your bike stops on the motorway
- Get to the left. Hard shoulder, emergency area or the next exit if the bike still moves.
- Get behind the barrier. Leave the bike, climb over the barrier and stand well up the bank, away from the traffic.
- Stuck in a live lane? Call 999 straight away. Keep your helmet on and get off the carriageway if you safely can.
- Call us once you’re safe, and send a WhatsApp location pin or the number on the nearest marker post.
Never try to fix the bike on the hard shoulder. On smart motorways with no hard shoulder, use an emergency area (the orange-surfaced lay-bys) and the SOS phone there connects you to National Highways.
Pick your motorway
- M6Cheshire to Carlisle: Thelwall, the Lune Gorge and Shap.
- M60The Manchester ring road, Barton Bridge to Simister.
- M62Liverpool to the Pennines, via Warrington and Rochdale.
- M6, M60 & M62How the three motorways round Manchester join up, and how to say where you are.
- M61Manchester to Preston, past Bolton and Rivington.
- M65Preston to Colne, the spine of East Lancashire.
- M56Manchester and the airport to Chester and North Wales.
- M55Preston to Blackpool, busy all summer.
- M58Switch Island to the M6, via Skelmersdale.
- M53The Wirral, from Wallasey to Chester.
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