soft shoulder
soft verge

The white van turned onto the soft shoulder and pulled to a stop.

It rolled off onto the soft shoulder of the road.

He laughed and shook his head, then spit on the soft shoulder.

And a car had gone around the wreckage, out again on the soft shoulder of the road.

A woman - your mother - had been flung clear on to the soft shoulder.

Joe sat on the soft shoulder of the road, watching them with his seawater eyes.

It stopped a hundred yards or so down the road, in a little turnout on the soft shoulder.

A soft shoulder and a quiet sob were what he had found.

Things like showing off those soft white shoulders under thin straps.

Lester pulled the car over onto the soft shoulder against the trees.