A hardened strip alongside a motorway for stopping on in an emergency.
〈英〉硬路肩（高速公路边上硬化的狭长地带，用于在发生紧急情况时停车）
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It crossed lanes and hit a crash barrier on the hard shoulder.
Mercedes used to be a byword for durability but now it's a byword for being on the hard shoulder at four in the morning with steam coming out of the bonnet.
Well, when I was travelling up from London to Glasgow yesterday I passed a car which was sitting on the hard shoulder of the M6, tyre in shreds.
Take the hard shoulder of dual carriageways, for instance.
Statistics show that many accidents that occur on motorways involve vehicles which are parked on the hard shoulder.
In other areas of the M1 earmarked for a new carriageway, additional land would be bought, with the hard shoulder and central reservation staying the same.
Police said the driver had just overtaken a lorry when he careered into the hard shoulder barrier and bounced back across the carriageway into the central reservation.
He kept wanting to park up on the hard shoulder and have a walk in the hills.
Using the emergency telephone on the hard shoulder of the motorway gives a fixed location unlike a mobile phone.
Mark, of Owen Close, Croydon, told officers he had not gone the wrong way down the motorway, only the hard shoulder, in search of his sister.
I couldn't help myself stopping on the hard shoulder behind them.
Then, just as hope was diminishing to its lowest ebb, an extremely long stretch limousine which had just sped by, suddenly stopped and parked on the hard shoulder a furlong ahead of us.
Traffic was stopped on the motorway; cars were forced on to the hard shoulder, nothing was too much bother and once we got there we held an autograph session for the drivers.
Sidney Flinton came into the world on the hard shoulder of the M62 motorway.
Kathy and Colin sat in the car by a hard shoulder of a motorway bickering about what route to take.
United boss Sir Alex Ferguson was cleared of driving on a motorway hard shoulder after the solicitor told magistrates he was suffered a stomach upset and needed to use the toilet.
Sir Alex Ferguson was charged with driving on the hard shoulder of a motorway - an offence that carries a three-point penalty.
Anyway, I noticed that a woman had stopped in the hard shoulder of the other carriageway and was taking photos of the sunset.
It is understood he was seen to get out of his Fiat Punto after parking it on the hard shoulder between Junction 17 at Whitefield and Junction 18 at Simister.
In one short conversation, Pc Lee Bowdell described how Mr Hinde was flailing about on the motorway hard shoulder and deliberately banging his head on the floor.