Where must a vehicle drive if, because of a breakdown, it is travelling at abnormally reduced speed on a motorway?

A) In the right-hand lane and, if the vehicle disrupts traffic seriously, on the shoulder.
B) Always in the right-hand lane.
C) On the shoulder, so as not to be an obstacle.

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If we suffer a breakdown on a motorway or dual carriageway that forces us to drive at an abnormally reduced speed, our vehicle may drive in the right lane until the next exit, without invading the shoulder, except when it seriously bothers other road users, when it must drive on the shoulder.

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