If your car breaks down three blocks from home on a sunny, Sunday afternoon, you're going to be inconvenienced, but that's about all. However, if your vehicle stops in the middle of a four-lane highway during evening rush hour with a freezing rain blowing, everything changes.
Few motorists are prepared to meet the challenges of an automotive emergency.
Because they assume it will never happen to them, they have no plan and little equipment. When their turn finally arrives, their safety and perhaps their lives may depend on split second decisions, having the proper items and knowing how to use them. For example, if you can't get off the road, set up flares or reflectors. Exit the car away from the traffic. Raise the hood and leave it open.