Road Rescue breakdown cover
Choose to add one of our 5 levels of Road Rescue breakdown cover when you take out LV= Car Insurance
When you take out a car insurance policy with LV= you can choose to add our Road Rescue cover as an optional extra. You have a choice of 5 levels of breakdown cover which vary from Roadside Assist to UK & European Assist. You can also choose a level of cover that includes Home Assist. Read more about these levels of cover in the table below.
For an additional premium you can include LV= Road Rescue Personal Cover. This extends the breakdown cover you have in the UK to any car you or your spouse / partner are driving or are a passenger in at the time of a breakdown in the UK. LV= offers competitive rates - just choose the option you require when you get a car insurance quote online.
You can also get Road Rescue as a standalone product.
Have a look at the table below for the Road Rescue breakdown cover options at a glance.
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Have a look at the table below for details of our Road Rescue breakdown cover options.
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| - Roadside assistance if your car breaks down more than a quarter of a mile from your home.
- If the agent cannot repair the fault at the roadside, you and your passengers will be taken to a suitable garage or a destination of your choice (up to 10 miles from where your car broke down).
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| - Roadside Assist as well as:
- Home assistance if your car fails to start at your home address.
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| - Roadside assistance if your car breaks down more than a quarter of a mile from your home.
- If the agent cannot repair the fault at the roadside or at a local garage by the end of the day, you and your passengers will be taken to a destination of your choice, anywhere in the UK.
- We will also supply a relief driver if the driver of the car cannot continue the journey due to illness or injury.
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UK Recovery & Home Assist | - UK Recovery as well as:
- Home assistance if your car fails to start at your home address.
- If the agent cannot repair the fault by the end of the day you will have the option of a hire car, alternative transport or overnight accommodation.
- We will also pay for a rail ticket so that you can collect your car once it has been repaired.
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| - UK Recovery & Home Assist as well as:
- Breakdown cover in Europe if you regularly travel to Europe with your car.
- European cover includes cover before you travel where a hire car will be provided, your car and passengers will be brought back to the UK following a breakdown, overnight accommodation while your car is being repaired and a relief driver, if needed.
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Personal Cover (optional) | - Cover for you and your partner in any privately owned car you drive or travel in.
- Personal Cover can be added to any of the covers mentioned above.
- When taking out Personal Cover, we'll need the personal details of the second driver to be covered (title, initials, first name and surname).
- Personal Cover can only be used when driving in the UK. It doesn't cover you on European journeys.
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Have a look at our Benefits Table for details of cover.

Road Rescue Document of Insurance (PDF 542KB)
Liverpool Victoria Road Rescue is provided by Britannia Rescue.