The Crash Detectives Season 5 Episode 1

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00:00Every serious incident on the road requires forensic examination.

00:07We've got to start asking the question, why is this happening?

00:10Pedestrian's been struck in the cold-off area of the steel carriageway.

00:14The car has filled the stop.

00:16And inside the cordons, dedicated officers take on this challenge.

00:20Clearly, I don't think this came out of the factory sounding like that.

00:25This person's lost their life for whatever reason.

00:28We're here trying to establish why.

00:34Only now can I realise that that is actually in the middle of my lane.

00:38Tracking down the evidence.

00:40This is really important, this is key.

00:41To get to the truth.

00:43Once we've got somebody, that's going to put him in the driver's seat.

00:46There's a death on the road.

00:48So we've got to be investigating properly and thoroughly.

00:51This is a proper head scratcher, this is.

00:54All in a day's work for the crash detectives.

00:58We have a vehicle failing to stop, failing to stop.

01:08Eight, four, six, five, eastbound.

01:10You know, you keep your partial in that and echo.

01:12It's the opposite of the white position.

01:14Is that the target continue?

01:15Yes, yes.

01:16Yes, yes.

01:17We have a vehicle failing to stop, failing to stop.

01:18We have a vehicle failing to stop, failing to stop.

01:20Eight, four, six, five, eastbound.

01:22We have a vehicle failing to stop.

01:23Eight, four, six, five, eastbound.

01:24We can only keep your partial in that and echo.

01:25It's the opposite of the white position.

01:26Do I have a target continue?

01:27Yes, yes.

01:28Yes, yes.

01:29Stand down, stand down.

01:30It's hit.

01:31Somebody in the road works.

01:32It's hit.

01:33A road worker.

01:34Not unit.

01:35He's ambulance on the hurry up.

01:36His nails got an open fracture to his leg.

01:38It's a bad guy.

01:39It's a bad guy.

01:40It's a bad guy.

01:41Do you have a target continue?

01:42Yes, yes.

01:43Yes, yes.

01:44Yes, yes.

01:45Yes, yes.

01:46Yes, yes.

01:47Stand down, stand down.

01:48It's hit.

01:49Somebody in the road works.

01:50It's hit.

01:51A road worker.

01:52North unit.

01:53These ambulance on the hurry up.

01:54This nails got an open fracture to his leg.

01:55Yes, that's a safe.

01:56Eight, four, six, five.

01:57Eastbound.

01:58Todega towards Demerville.

01:59Let's get this road close, please.

02:00Tangles here at one.

02:01It's shut now so the helicopter can land.

02:03Yes, that's a safe call.

02:068465 Eastbound, Tadega towards Emma Vale.

02:10W, let's get this road close, please.

02:16Tangled 01, been shut now so the helicopter can land.

02:29As doctors treat a seriously injured man at the roadside,

02:33the car involved is nowhere to be seen.

02:40We've had the report of a vehicle that's failed to stop for a police patrol vehicle,

02:45and in failing to stop, it's hit a worker on the road.

02:49All we have at the moment is potential serious injuries,

02:53and we're searching for the vehicle.

02:58While this is all going ahead, I'll have a look in the footage.

03:01We'll have to try.

03:02And they're starting with a recording from the patrol car's dash camera.

03:08OK, so that's it there? Yeah.

03:11But it's got a really loud exhaust on it,

03:12and the number plate's running italics, so you can't actually read.

03:14The number plate probably hasn't read on here.

03:16At this point, we can see it. It's gone. It's going that fast. It's gone.

03:24Nothing to help with the vehicle, is there? No.

03:29But traffic cameras also cover this stretch of road.

03:32Go ahead.

03:36And officers have been trawling through the footage.

03:38Just to let you know, we're having a little bit of some testing off the range.

03:44The vehicle itself, it is much better.

03:46The Mitsubishi Lancer Vivo 8 in white.

03:50It would appear it's come off immediately after it's failed to stop.

03:54The cameras don't show it comes to after that.

03:58Yeah, OK, I suspect that's probably where it's done, but yeah, cool, thank you.

04:02Local searches for vehicles matching this description are now urgently underway.

04:18The 24-year-old man who's been injured is now stable enough to be taken to hospital.

04:24You're going in the ambulance as opposed to the helicopter, yeah?

04:27Yeah, you can go back home.

04:28Cool, thank you.

04:32As you can see, what we have is a two-lane section to do with the carriageway.

04:37So they coned off this down to one lane,

04:39with the right-hand lane being the live lane,

04:41the lane where the traffic is moving.

04:42And we've got a road worker working in the lane that's coned off.

04:48It appears that a vehicle has entered that coned-off area

04:51and struck the road worker before making off and feeling it to stop.

04:57The carriageway's going to go in the ambulance.

04:59It's not going to go with the helicopter now.

05:02I don't know. What's his injuries?

05:04So he's got an open fracture to his tib and his fib.

05:07OK.

05:09He has got head injuries as well, but they're not concerned about those.

05:13So they're saying move off in about five minutes.

05:15He remembers everything. He wasn't locked out at any point,

05:17so he's still fairly complex mental now. He's got all the drugs.

05:21Do you want an account from him?

05:22No. Do you want me to try and get one?

05:24Yeah, I've got agon issues with that.

05:25He may be able to tell us something that we don't know.

05:32Hello. Sorry, Megan.

05:34Before you move off, am I able to just have a quick chat with him?

05:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.

05:37Just to see if he remembers anything at all?

05:38Yeah, yeah, yeah.

05:39That's all right.

05:40Our guy, he's a meat flower, so he's blowing the leaves.

05:43The guy that was struck.

05:45That's his machine there.

05:46Right.

05:47They don't want to cause you any more trauma,

05:49but can you remember roughly what happened?

05:51I just blew it blowing in the road,

05:54and I could hear this noise.

05:56And as I looked up,

05:57and I could see this point,

05:58and it's a machine either coming at me,

06:01and I didn't have time to do anything.

06:02It hit me then.

06:03I know.

06:04Was he struck in the cold off lane,

06:06or was he in the live lane?

06:07In the cold off lane.

06:08He was in the dead lane.

06:09Yes.

06:10Right.

06:11All I could see was it driving up the dead lane.

06:14And do you remember which part of the car hit you?

06:16As I looked on the car, the right hand side.

06:18OK.

06:19So like the passenger side, yeah?

06:20Yes.

06:21This belongs to him.

06:23Was this where he was laying?

06:25Yeah.

06:26Yeah, he was sat down when the guys saw him.

06:31OK, I'll leave him to get you down to the hospital, OK?

06:33You're in good hands.

06:34Thanks, guys.

06:38Yeah, he's saying he was working about a metre or so away

06:40from the solid white line blowing the grass.

06:42Uh-huh.

06:43He can hear a loud noise, looks up,

06:45and a white Mitsubishi Eva, as he's described it,

06:47has been coming travelling.

06:48He's at home's office?

06:49Yeah.

06:50Has been travelling down the dead lane.

06:51Mm-hm.

06:52He said he wouldn't have...

06:53The...

06:54Eva wouldn't have come to anybody else first.

06:55He was the first person that he would have come to,

06:57and he hasn't had time to get out of the way.

06:58It's hit him, and he couldn't tell you which way it went.

07:01It was just travelling at speed.

07:03The driver might have fled this scene.

07:18Where's the debris?

07:20A little bit there.

07:21But it's not been the cleanest of getaways.

07:24Under that one.

07:25Under that one.

07:26Under that one.

07:27The parts suspect from the vehicle.

07:30We put it in the hood notes,

07:31we need the helicopter's landing.

07:36Yeah, that's fine.

07:38There's another bit of trim there, possibly.

07:44Looks a bit possibly around the front of the bumper, is it?

07:47That's the near-side door mirror.

07:57From a white vehicle.

07:59I suspect it's a white Mitsubishi,

08:01so the colour is correct.

08:03We've got quite a bit of debris from the vehicle.

08:06That's typical of an incident like this,

08:08where debris from a vehicle is deposited along the road

08:11as it's made off.

08:17Ideally, what I'd like to identify is the point

08:22of where the road worker was struck.

08:32A fibre there.

08:35Seems to match some clothing.

08:36The scratch and the scrapes here.

08:46The start here.

08:47You've got a deafening mark running through here.

08:49There.

08:51So that could be where he stood.

08:54A deposit of grass or whatever.

08:56But that suggests to me

08:59the evidence of the debris we got

09:01and this mark here that it is relatively local.

09:04He's been spun around and caught his leg.

09:08We'll find out which leg it is now.

09:12Which leg is it?

09:14Left leg.

09:15Left leg.

09:18She said he had his back to the traffic.

09:19Yeah, it's good.

09:20It was left leg then.

09:21Left leg.

09:22Left leg.

09:23Left leg.

09:24Left leg.

09:25Left leg.

09:26Left leg.

09:27Left leg.

09:28Left leg.

09:29Left leg.

09:30Left leg.

09:31Left leg.

09:32Left leg.

09:33Left leg.

09:34Left leg.

09:35Left leg.

09:36South Wales Police, which is an emergency?

09:37Hiya.

09:38I've just had a phone call to say

09:40that my car has been seen flying down the A465.

09:42Right.

09:43OK.

09:44And how long ago was this?

09:45About.

09:46I've just had a phone call now.

09:47I'm not at home.

09:48So is your car stolen or something, is it?

09:49Well, it must be love, yeah.

09:51So who rang you?

09:53My friend, my mate, he said, mate, do you want to slow down in that car?

10:06I was like, what do you mean?

10:07And he was like, do you need to slow down?

10:08I said, I'm not, I'm not, I haven't got my car back.

10:12And what type of vehicle is it?

10:14It's a Mitsubishi Evo.

10:15What colour?

10:16White.

10:20So what's the registration number of the car?

10:22It's F5, Evo.

10:29Well, what I need you to do, I need you to go home

10:31and just verify that the car isn't there.

10:37Someone in Mercer has just reported that Mitsubishi Evo is white,

10:40stolen.

10:42Foxtrot 5, echo Victor Oscar.

10:45He said that it's been stolen and a friend has told him

10:48they've seen on the A465.

10:50Roger, that is overheat.

10:56South Wales Police.

10:57Oh, hiya.

10:58I rang in earlier on to say I think my car has been stolen.

11:02OK.

11:03I've come home now and my car's definitely got off my drive.

11:06The officers are on their way now to check that out.

11:12To confirm whether it's the vehicle we're looking for or not.

11:15Do you want to come in?

11:16Yes, please, bud.

11:17Yeah.

11:18I'm better days, bud.

11:19I'm better days.

11:20I'm better days.

11:21I'm better a couple of months to be fair, yeah.

11:22What's happened, bud?

11:23Can we help you?

11:24Well, my car's gone, mate.

11:25So what time or what's happened as far as you're concerned then?

11:28Me and my missus have split up.

11:29We've been split up now for a couple of months.

11:30It's been armoured, but it's not been...

11:31It's not been...

11:32The best.

11:33He says they still share the same house and that morning had an argument about selling

11:56the car.

11:58I went out then about 10.30, and then, obviously, when I come back in, the car's come off

12:04and f***ing driving.

12:05But a second officer has been carrying out further enquiries.

12:09My life has been...

12:10Well, I don't know about her, but my life has been absolutely...

12:13Anthony, I've obviously just spoke to your neighbour.

12:16You're all captured on the ring doorbell.

12:18Right.

12:19To get in the car, leaving.

12:20Yeah.

12:21You've returned without the car.

12:22So, to us, obviously, your car was on the drive.

12:27You've left in the car.

12:28The car's not come back here.

12:30Right.

12:31At this time, bud, long and short of it, you're going to have to come to the police station.

12:35But there's been a serious collision up on there involving your car and a road worker,

12:41as far as I'm inferred.

12:43OK?

12:44You're going to have to come to the police station with us.

12:46You are under arrest at the moment on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

12:52OK?

12:53Yeah.

12:54Put them on in front.

12:55Yeah.

12:56Cool.

12:57Cool.

12:58Cool.

12:59Cool.

13:00Cool.

13:01How long will it take down the station?

13:03It's a good shelter on his ring doorbell.

13:04He's making everything he's going wrong.

13:05Two-six feet drop in.

13:06Two-six feet, right?

13:07Yeah.

13:08In relation to a arrest attempt, there's evidence of him getting in this vehicle at the material

13:14types.

13:15He's giving us a story which is completely different to that.

13:32Yeah, Roger.

13:33I'll let the signal now.

13:34Right.

13:35We made an arrest.

13:36We made an arrest.

13:37We made an arrest.

13:38We made an arrest.

13:39And a near neighbour or someone nearby puts him in the car, leaving with a dress.

13:52Excellent.

13:53Hello, what have we got?

13:55One in four causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

13:59I'll see.

14:00But overnight, he's had some time to reflect, and is now admitting to being at the wheel.

14:26OK, Ryan, you're in the car?

14:27Yeah.

14:28What's going on?

14:29Basically, I'm just driving like I normally do.

14:31Mm-hm.

14:32I'm a really careful driver.

14:34And I thought I'd seen, like, a police car up on the hill, but I wasn't sure.

14:40Then it dawned on me.

14:42I wasn't, like, escaping from the police.

14:46I just thought, try and get the car home, and then deal with it afterwards.

14:50Mm.

14:51But you were trying to escape, because you've seen the car, but, yeah, go on.

14:54What's happened then?

14:55As I'm coming down, what I'm thinking now is, obviously, that's a closed road, because

15:00as I've gone in, a cone has hit my wing mirror.

15:03I'm panicking then, and I've damaged my car.

15:05Then I've had, like, another impact, thinking of it, another cone, because it was just this

15:10wing mirror's gone.

15:11Mm.

15:12Mm.

15:13And then, obviously, I'm more panicking then, because I just sort of got off then as quickly

15:17as I can.

15:18That's when they phoned the police then and reported the stolen.

15:21Right.

15:22So it wasn't stolen, then?

15:23Yeah, obviously, no, no.

15:25What we didn't have at that point is the whereabouts of the car.

15:29So the inquiries were still ongoing.

15:32So where did you actually park the car?

15:34They parked the car up in Pound Stretcher and then just parked it in the middle of the

15:38car park.

15:39It wasn't until we had an initial interview that the driver admitted that he had parked

15:44the car in a local car park and then walked home.

15:49No.

15:50Can I have, like, a couple of minutes to speak to my sister?

15:53I think we're finishing now.

15:54I think now I'm finishing.

15:55Yeah.

15:56Unless there's anything you really want to tell us?

15:57Erm, can I speak to him first?

16:00With officers en route to retrieve the car, he now wants to change his story.

16:06I parked the car in Pound Stretcher.

16:08I've walked off from the car.

16:09Mm-hm.

16:10And then I thought, I can't leave my car here.

16:13It's a £50,000 car.

16:15Mm-hm.

16:16So I've gone back, got my car.

16:18There's a lead.

16:19So I've just put the car up there.

16:23He's trying to hide it, isn't he?

16:32It's tucked away.

16:33He's put the front end of the vehicle into the banking.

16:37It doesn't look from the rear that it's been involved in a road traffic collision whatsoever,

16:42but obviously as we look a bit closer, we can tell that, erm, it has.

16:47What damage was on the car, then, when you left it?

16:48Right.

16:49This is why I'm, this is why I'm shocked that someone got hit.

17:02Right?

17:03Because obviously my two wingman is gone.

17:05Two with both sides?

17:06The one is, the one is glass missing.

17:09Mm-hm.

17:10The one is gone.

17:11And then there's a dent in my wing, passenger side.

17:25It's not even proper body with this old fella.

17:26And my splitter's hanging off.

17:27First thing I noticed was this carbon fiber on the front that looked exactly like that

17:40that was left at the scene.

17:41But there's no, like, bumper damage, no bonnet damage, so...

17:42OK.

17:43Like, for me, thinking if I'd hit someone, there would be a lot more damage than that.

18:00This type of impact, it's very much on the corner of the car as it grants him blow.

18:04Yeah.

18:05But even so, if you look at the severity of the dent that's in that wing there, and then

18:10you've got a dent in the A pillar here as well, which is the upper part of his body or

18:14his torso, even his head may be contacted.

18:16Yeah.

18:17That's the structural part of the car.

18:20And to put a dent in that, it takes from doing it.

18:23There's a crease in there which has been caused when the wing mirror...

18:26Yeah.

18:27..has been forced against the pedestrian, slammed back into the door, and you can see

18:30the mark of the mirror, and there's fragments of glass in there as well.

18:34Obviously, this doesn't marry up with an air cone at all, does it?

18:38Certainly not.

18:39There's no evidence that he's struck a cone on this side of the car at all.

18:43The damage caused in the collision is clear to see.

18:47But the appearance of this car is now raising questions about what might be hiding under

18:54the bonnet.

18:55The Mitsubishi in itself, it's a quick car.

18:58For the car's age, it was probably considered to be one of the fastest cars on the road at

19:03the time, as a normal saloon car.

19:06So, it's an Evo 8.

19:08Yep.

19:092004 manufacturer.

19:10It's not exported, so it's a British car.

19:14But what he had done is adding modifications to the vehicle to greatly enhance the vehicle's performance.

19:25So what we needed to do is get a qualified vehicle examiner to have a look at the vehicle to examine the vehicle.

19:31That's an aftermarket inlet manifold, aftermarket exhaust manifold, all of this sort of, all of the stuff around the turbo,

19:42which is the bit that forces the air into, obviously, into the engine, has been replaced and upgraded.

19:48All the modifications were very much about speed and acceleration.

19:57That's not cheap.

19:59Putting that vehicle down the road as quickly as possible.

20:03If we start it...

20:04What brake horsepower is it?

20:11Um...

20:12It's an FQ 330, so it's around 330 brake.

20:16FQ 330...

20:17330 brake?

20:18Yeah.

20:19Jesus.

20:20While brake horsepower is an indication of how much power an engine produces...

20:25Ready?

20:26...there's something not quite adding up about the figure he's quoting.

20:29Hello, world, and welcome back to Accelerate.

20:31And welcome to Anthony's almost 900 brake horsepower Evo.

20:36We know that the driver was invited along to do a feature on his car.

20:40It was posted on YouTube two days before this collision.

20:46And it was recently...

20:47Like I said, he hasn't had it back long.

20:48It was dynoed at just under 900 horsepower.

20:52The driver, during an interview, had suggested that the car had a power output of around 330 brakes.

20:58But in reality, when you looked at the video, he'd suggested quite clearly a very different figure.

21:05This is by far the most powerful car I've ever been in, so let's get out on the road, shall we?

21:10So does it reveal any more about the driver himself?

21:14Especially on a day like today, it is raining.

21:17And Anthony's attitude is just, this is what they're built for, so we're still gonna have some fun.

21:22You can hear the car brake traction as all four wheels spin up.

21:35So if you listen now...

21:36You can hear the car's broken traction, and that's why you hear that it hit the limiter, basically, hit the rev limiter of the engine.

21:45Oh, I imagine this video is just gonna be me giggling like a schoolgirl, but that was...

21:51I mean, that was second gear, it just spanned then, didn't it?

21:55It just spins, but it's the things you can see.

21:58Yeah.

21:59Second gear, it just spins.

22:00It just spins, it lit the wheels up.

22:05He's putting all that power in, but he's got one hand on the wheel, one hand on the gear stick.

22:12Yeah, it can go wrong very quickly, and he won't be in a position to do a lot about it.

22:16The passenger's having to grab the seat belt.

22:19Yeah, it's maximum acceleration.

22:22You know, they're trying to get the maximum performance out of it for the effect.

22:25Even in four of them, it's...

22:28It's red to my stomach.

22:31You're tuned to the stomach, yeah.

22:34Yeah, it's a brutal car, I guess.

22:36What's your hat off to, like, in this ride?

22:38Even in my car, I wouldn't be pushing any of my cars.

22:40It has to be you.

22:42Hey, philosophy.

22:44This thing is...

22:45My car.

22:46It's like my mate, Davey's been in loads of fast cars, and...

22:48Yeah.

22:49I picked this up the other day, and we went out, and he was like...

22:52He'll tell if he's sh**ed out his head.

22:54He said, just slow down, bro.

22:56He said, I love your car, you're doing 175 mile an hour.

22:58He said, just slow down.

22:59175.

23:02Whether you believe him or not, he's telling people he's doing 175 mile an hour.

23:08I've never driven that car in anger.

23:10You know what I mean?

23:11That car is my everything, like, you know what I mean?

23:14Even when I take it on a track day, it's looked after.

23:17You know what I mean?

23:18It's never been hammered.

23:20It's never been, sort of, used and abused like some performance cars are.

23:26The worrying thing about it is when I did the examination of it,

23:29the actual condition of the vehicle, there was a lot of damage that had been caused to it.

23:35Yeah.

23:36And quite clearly, that damage had been caused by the way in which it had been driven as well.

23:40Yeah.

23:41A lot of the suspension mounts were very worn or were damaged.

23:45It's easy to see if it's been driven consistently in this sort of manner.

23:49The reasons why that damage may have been there.

23:51Mm.

23:53If I'd pulled that car over on the side of the road as a normal traffic stop,

23:58realistically, I probably wouldn't have let it go,

24:00because of the damage and some of the faults that I'd found with it.

24:05And on the day of the crash,

24:07officers parked by the side of the road did attempt to pull the car over.

24:11The camera on the patrol car couldn't read the number plate,

24:16and this raised suspicion.

24:20Despite reaching speeds of 131 miles an hour,

24:24the Mitsubishi is out of sight.

24:27But this wasn't the only camera recording at the time.

24:31There was a car being driven through the scene.

24:34A member of the public minding their own business

24:36that was fitted with dash cam both in the front of the car

24:39and out through the rear window.

24:43You see the evil pass it now.

24:46And he's braking.

24:52Goes off at the intersection.

24:55And the witness car carries on.

24:58I only noticed the police car, like, in the distance, flashing lights as I went up on the turn off of a trigger.

25:09But that was the point where it dawned on me that my car wasn't assured

25:14and this police officer was probably coming after me.

25:17So he decides to rejoin the dual carriageway.

25:22So, obviously, I've needed to overtake the lorry.

25:26So I've gone into, like, what would be the arch holder.

25:28You see the Mitsubishi ducked into the clothes lane, taking the cones out as well.

25:36And then we lose sight of it.

25:39You see a patrol car now pass as well on the inside.

25:43When the patrol car comes to a stop, because the injured person, as you can see, is, at this point, he's sat up in the road,

26:00having been struck by the evil.

26:03What's said to you when you're doing your driving licence?

26:08Erm...

26:10Only use the arch holder for emergencies.

26:12OK, so what did you use it for?

26:14At the time, that was an emergency for me.

26:16I believed that that was an emergency for me.

26:20So, you know, putting myself back there, that was an emergency for me.

26:27What did you class as the emergency?

26:29Erm, no one's sure what's on my car.

26:34My £50,000 car getting taken off me.

26:37I haven't had him patented, being, getting dragged onto a lorry.

26:42You know, all that.

26:44But he's still denying hitting the road worker.

26:47If I knew I'd hit someone, I would have stopped immediately.

26:52And that is the God's honest truth.

26:54Like, I'm not a bad person.

26:56We were confident that vehicle has struck the road worker,

27:01but we needed that tiny bit of evidence to actually prove the contact.

27:06While the driver left components of his car at the scene,

27:11he failed to realise he'd also taken some of the scene away with him.

27:16Look at that, mate.

27:19There they are.

27:20Fibres, eh?

27:21Orange fibres?

27:22Orange fibres.

27:23Yep.

27:24Look at that.

27:28They were a match to the trousers being worn by the road worker.

27:32What do you think now?

27:34Um, that he must have.

27:36What was he hit?

27:38That person.

27:41This young man who's trying to make a living.

27:46From that point, his life changed forever.

27:48He'll never be the same again.

27:50Ultimately, his significant injury has got to affect the way he lives the rest of his life.

27:58The driver admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving

28:03and perverting the course of justice.

28:04Obviously, someone's been hurt because of my actions and it's absolutely...

28:14..maybe could have said that it's just ruined my day, to be fair.

28:18He was jailed for three years and four months.

28:21And the car has now been sold.

28:24His arrogance got the better of him, I think.

28:27And his obsession with the car probably clouded his judgement.

28:30To the detriment of this young man.

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