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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2149589" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>My (sadly now deceased) T1 mother suggested that if you feel low on a motorway you should pull over on to the hard shoulder, chomp your carb, wait out the hypo, and tell any police that query this that you suspected the accelerator had stuck briefly.... (This advice was a decade or so ago, mind, and I can't now remember whether it was accelerator or brakes, but the point was that a car defect was making you pause for a while.) Luckily I've never had to try this out but my one experience of driving hypo (about twenty years ago) was extremely scary and I was very lucky that I didn't have an accident. I am now paranoid about vehicles and blood testing and haven't had any issues since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 2149589, member: 372717"] My (sadly now deceased) T1 mother suggested that if you feel low on a motorway you should pull over on to the hard shoulder, chomp your carb, wait out the hypo, and tell any police that query this that you suspected the accelerator had stuck briefly.... (This advice was a decade or so ago, mind, and I can't now remember whether it was accelerator or brakes, but the point was that a car defect was making you pause for a while.) Luckily I've never had to try this out but my one experience of driving hypo (about twenty years ago) was extremely scary and I was very lucky that I didn't have an accident. I am now paranoid about vehicles and blood testing and haven't had any issues since. [/QUOTE]
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