"The AA got there despite the ice"

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"It was just a few days before Christmas, during that very bad winter we had a couple of years ago. My son and his wife had taken their baby twins to the doctor for inoculations.

"Anyway, all was going well, (although the jabs had made the twins a bit irritable and whiney) when on the way home their car broke down with several miles still to go. By this time it was early evening, so it was dark and getting colder by the minute. As my son is an AA Member he called them straight away.

"Although it wasn’t snowing, the roads were still very icy from the last snowfall making conditions very treacherous. Even so, the AA still managed to get to them within 40 minutes and quickly get them back on their way with just a bill of £35 for a part that was needed. All our family are AA members, and you can bet that the twins will be too when they grow up!"

Liz Freer, AA Member

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