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I must admit that I would have done it like the Police, The Armco crash barrier is designed to deflect vehicles back into their lane to prevent crossover crashes, so anything hitting your car would ricochet it like a snooker ball in to the scene. The Police cars would ricochet in to lanes 1 & 2 but that could be a clear path whereas lane 3 certainly wasn't. Mark's point about it also protecting the drivers door is also valid. Fire appliances fend off with the front of the vehicle always turned to the right because all their rescue equipment in mounted in the left hand side lockers and so it gives a protected working environment. Whilst I understand Mark likes his car and doesn't want it smashed up I think I'd rather lose the car than my life. If you arrive at a scene after it is protected then the correct position for the doctor and the ambulances is, as he says, forward of the scene. Vic Calland -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rowley Cottingham Sent: 20 November 2004 21:01 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Fend off Found an RTC on my way home from Leeds on the M1 yesterday. Not a major problem, but I noticed that the Police parked in fend off opposite from what I thought was correct. The injured car had ended up in Lane 3 entirely. I stopped behind it with my car angled towards the central reservation and with the wheels turned also towards the central reservation. This meant that if the car was struck from behind it would deflect safely to the barrier and not into passing traffic in lanes 1 and 2. However, the Police car angled everything the OTHER way, so that it would be pushed if struck towards the other two lanes. Who was right? Why? Rowley Cottingham. Consultant in Emergency Medicine.