Grateful for help

If we may call the AA an emergency service, perhaps my recent predicament will prove that it is.

I was travelling in my car along the Littlehampton bypass at the height of the rush hour when the clutch in my car broke and I was stranded on a section of the bypass close to The Body Shop roundabout.

You can imagine being stranded at the side of the road with two lanes of traffic hurtling by. Luckily, I did have my mobile phone with me and used it to ring the AA, the first time I had used it for such a purpose.

Not only was the woman’s voice at the other end very comforting, but she sensed my panic and reassured me, helping me with the answers I tried to give her.

I, in my confusion, told her I was on the A27, which I wasn’t, but also told her there was a big white board in front of me which stated I was at The Body Shop roundabout.

Texting me, the AA told me the patrol man would arrive at the exact time he did. You can imagine my relief when I saw the big yellow van coming up behind me. He quickly diagnosed the problem, hitched me to his van with a tow-bar and, using a sat-nav, towed me safely to my destination.

Emergency services are very important and I take my hat off to the service that I was given that evening.

G. A. Harris

Armada Way

Littlehampton