I had a flat tire on 64 and called the non-emergency number to get a safety vehicle with flashing lights blocking me from behind on the shoulder before I even got out of the car. It took 20 minutes to get there but it's just not worth the risk...let alone getting out and standing in the middle of the highway.

The vdot guy driving the truck said just a month earlier some guy was out in the shoulder because of a car issue up by Afton Mountain. The road was icy and while he was looking at his car, an 18 wheeler lost traction and slid sideways, with the trailer fishtailing like a whip through the shoulder where it smacked this guy into the grass well off the road. He lived but had broken "everything".