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This paper proposes a novel, real-time vehicular network protocol that functions as an emergency fallback communication layer using long-range LoRa modulation and off-the-shelf hardware. The core contribution is a development of Mobile Cell Broadcast Protocol that is implemented using Long-Range modulation and time-division multiple access (TDMA)-based cell broadcast protocol (LoRA TDMA) capable of supporting up to six dynamic clients to connect and exchange lightweight cooperative awareness messages. The system achieves a sub-100 ms node notification latency, meeting key low-latency requirements for safety use cases. Unlike conventional ITS stacks, the focus here is not on full-featured data exchange but on maintaining essential communication under constrained conditions. Protocol has been tested in laboratory to check its ability to ensure real-time data exchange between dynamic network nodes having 14 bytes of payload per data packet and 100 ms network member notification latency. 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