What to Do If Your Car Breaks Down on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway

If your car breaks down on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, the priority is getting off the live carriageway safely, making your vehicle visible to oncoming traffic, and calling for help rather than attempting repairs yourself on a high-speed road.

Get off the carriageway first

Use whatever momentum you have left to steer onto the paved shoulder, not the grass verge if you can help it — a soft shoulder can trap a vehicle further. If you can't reach the shoulder, keep everyone inside the vehicle with seatbelts on rather than standing on the carriageway side.

Make yourself visible immediately

Turn on hazard lights the moment you realise there's a problem, not after you've stopped. If you're carrying a reflective triangle, place it around 50-100 metres behind your vehicle on the same side — this is what actually gives approaching traffic time to react, well before they can see your car itself.

Get everyone out safely, on the correct side

Exit the vehicle from the side away from traffic wherever possible, and stand behind the crash barrier if there is one, not next to the car. This one habit prevents more injuries than almost anything else on a fast road.

Call for help

This is where most people waste time trying to flag down a passing vehicle or wait it out. Call Jhatpat directly at +91 82911 59911, or share your live location on WhatsApp — that location pin is what lets us dispatch the nearest available operator instead of you trying to describe where you are on an expressway with few visible landmarks.

What not to do

Don't attempt to change a tyre or check under the bonnet on the traffic side of the vehicle. Don't walk along the expressway to find help — flag down help via phone instead. And don't stand directly behind your own vehicle, even with hazards on; a following vehicle correcting late can still reach that spot.

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