hard shoulder

noun

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

Example Sentences

The early M1 had no speed limit, crash barriers, or lights, and had soft verges rather than hard shoulders.

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"Our roads are so backwards," says Mr Barnes, who wants a ban on hard shoulders being used as carriageways.

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The hard shoulder is sometimes open to traffic on another 63 miles of smart motorway and there are a further 140 miles of the network where the hard shoulder has been retained.

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A drunk-driver has been found guilty of dangerous driving and child neglect after speeding on a motorway hard shoulder at more than 100mph with a young child in the vehicle.

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Shafiqul Haidhar, 39, was hit while awaiting recovery on the hard shoulder of the M1 in Leicestershire on 23 August last year.

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