Missed your highway exit? Never reverse – keep calm and carry on to the next one, there’s always a U-turn

In Safety, Viral / by Harvinder Sidhu / 29 July 2026 11:11 amA video circulating on social media is a textbook example of what not to do when you miss your highway exit. Let’s be absolutely clear about this: if you miss an exit, there is exactly one correct course of action, and that is to carry on to the next one. Traffic on our highways travels at 110 km/h, which works out to just over 30 metres covered every single second. How not to miss your exit in the first placeBetter still, set yourself up so you don’t miss the exit at all. A lively conversation, a phone notification or fiddling with the infotainment is all it takes to sail past a perfectly well-signposted exit.