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Topic: Road accidents and first aid · Nº 99 / 626

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Durante el día, si por causa de una avería dejamos el vehículo inmovilizado en el arcén de una carretera, ¿cómo lo haremos?

During the day, if a breakdown leaves your vehicle immobilised on the hard shoulder of a road, what will you do?

  • AColocando el dispositivo de preseñalización de peligro y utilizando la señal de emergencia.Place the hazard warning device and use the hazard warning lights.
  • BAl ser de día colocaremos solamente los triángulos de preseñalización de peligro.As it is daytime, I will only place the warning triangles.
  • CSi el vehículo está en el arcén sólo será necesario utilizar la señal de emergencia.If the vehicle is on the hard shoulder, I only need to use the hazard warning lights.
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  • AColocando el dispositivo de preseñalización de peligro y utilizando la señal de emergencia.Place the hazard warning device and use the hazard warning lights.
Explanation

If you break down, by day or by night, you must use the hazard warning lights and also place the hazard warning device. The V-16 hazard warning device is an approved amber-yellow light with geolocation. It runs on its own power supply (batteries). It must be placed on the highest point of the broken-down vehicle, to make it as visible as possible. Today the V-16 is the only legal way to signal a broken-down vehicle or an obstacle on the road. Warning triangles are no longer used.

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