central reservation

noun

noun

Ireland, UK The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a motorway or dual carriageway.

The driver of one of the cars had come through the windscreen. He was lying on his back on the central reservation like the effigy on an old church tomb.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 26:
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