hard shoulder

noun

1. a surfaced verge running along the edge of a motorway for emergency stops

Example Sentences

Dashcam footage from a driver showed him using the hard shoulder and a lane closed to traffic by cones so workers could maintain the roadside.

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Prosecutor Mark Mohammed KC explained that Hood was overtaking other vehicles at speed, including going along the the hard shoulder, sometimes driving at more than 100mph.

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He pulled on to the hard shoulder and ran towards screams coming from the Toyota.

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The court heard that he went on to the hard shoulder before making a sudden U-turn and into lane three, heading south.

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Ten minutes later, however, a young man in a white van pulled up behind them on the hard shoulder.

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