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hard shoulder

noun

  1. a surfaced verge running along the edge of a motorway for emergency stops
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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A footballer has been put into an induced coma after he was hit by a car on the M27's hard shoulder after stopping to change a tyre, his club said.

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

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