Motorway car park full – what drivers need to know now
Vacation time usually means: full highways – and also full parking spaces and rest areas. According to the Auto Club Europe (ACE), there is an “extreme defect”, especially at truck parking spaces on motorways. And that also endangers the safety of car traffic.
Because the ACE has observed regularly overcrowded rest areas, blocked accesses or parked trucks on the hard shoulder in the past few weeks. But what should be done when overcrowded parking spaces and rest areas as well as blocked accesses threaten? Elena Marcus-Engelhardt from ACE calls important points:
Forward -looking driving – now all the more important
Especially when it is dark and in the event of confusing entrances, drivers should adapt their maneuvers to them. «Reduce your speed significantly on the delay strip. This is how they avoid dangerous situations. »
How full it really is on the parking and resting plants can usually not be particularly well assessed from the road- especially at night. Because rest areas are often overcrowded with truck, especially in the evening and night hours.
Really no space? Sometimes a gap opens up
« You still need to stop-for example for a break of the toilet-first look for a regular parking space on the rest area or alternatively for a sufficiently wide gap between two trucks, » advises Elena Marcus-Engelhardt.
It can be worth looking further towards the exit. « There is often a suitable gap between truck for a car. » This applies to – often smaller – parking spaces, which do not show the parking spaces for cars and trucks separately. Basically, but parking spaces for cars and truck parking spaces for trucks are there-even if some truck block car surfaces.
Never park in certain places
«Never park in entrances and trips or in the passage. The hard shoulder is also taboo, »says Marcus-Engelhardt. But what if you are already turned and the further access to the rest area is completely blocked and a occurrence is not possible?
This is an extreme situation – especially since reverse on the highway is absolutely life -threatening and forbidden, Marcus -Engelhardt refers to paragraph 18 (para. 7) of the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO).
Anyone who is still on or near the delay strip in the dark or bad view – immediately switch on the warning indicator system. « If there is no safe solution in sight, do not hesitate to make an emergency call. »
Please continue – please continue!
Anyone who finds on the occasion that there is no parking space and that it is possible to continue continuing can carefully roll over the current rest area to the exit and control the next option.
Basically, the car and truck parking areas are often separated from each other, especially on larger rest areas. This significantly increases the chances of a free car parking lot at night.
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