This is awful, I just can't imagine what they have been through.
A few weeks ago I had to stop on the side of the A34 for a puncture in my little hatchback. These was no hard shoulder and no layby near by. I rang NFU rescue for help, I didn't fancy changing my wheel myself, and following phoning OH to tell him what had happened I rang police on 101 to give them a heads up that my car was possibly in the way. Whilst I was on the phone to 101 a 2 lorries barrelled down the road towards my car, the one on the inside had no hope of avoiding it, and sure enough poor little car was opened like a tuna can and shunted down the road. Thankfully I was not in it. At that point I rang 999 to tell them to get a car to us asap before there was a second accident as the lorry was parked about 100 yds ahead of me well into the road.
The lorry driver said he didn't see me, I could to a point understand that as he was being overtaken at the time and probably would have been looking at his outside wing mirror, but how on earth the other lorry didn't see Nick in a large box, what a total tragedy.
My plea to anyone who finds themselves broken down on the side of a busy road is please ring the police, when they eventually turned up at my accident site we were coned off and the difference in the attitude of other passing drivers completely changed.