Last Friday my car broke down on the A27 on the Kingston roundabout.

I was on my own, it was rush hour and I had to get out of the vehicle and push it off the dual carriageway (which it was blocking) on to aside road.

Of the couple of hundred cars passing me, one gentleman stopped to offer help and another actually stopped his van and assisted me pushing the vehicle.

To the second man I am very grateful. Even he commented no one else was prepared to help.

It is a most unattractive feature of any man who doesn't offer help to a young single female struggling to push a vehicle on a busy road.

How would they have felt if it was their wife or daughter?

Did they proudly go home and say they had ignored a woman in distress? Is this the way of the world now? What happened to the Good Samaritan?

I hope I don't have to go through this again but if I do I won't expect too much of the hordes of men too busy to stop for five minutes on their way to work.

-Angela Kenward, Brighton