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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?
00:10The pedestrians have been struck in the coned off area of the steel carriageway.
00:14The car is filled for 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 has 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.
00:58Time to echo 5.11.
00:59Time to echo 5.11.
01:00Time to echo 5.11.
01:04We've got severe head trauma.
01:05Injuries are believed to be life threatening.
01:10Paramedics are believed to be life threatening.
01:11Paramedics are requested here.
01:12Aminance 10.
01:13Air Aminance 10.
01:14It's a motor vehicle.
01:15It's a motor vehicle.
01:16And it's, erm, looks like it's been in collision with an electric scooter.
01:17It's a motor vehicle.
01:18It's a motor vehicle.
01:19And it's, erm, looks like it's been in collision with an electric scooter.
01:20The rider of the e-scooter is a 26-year-old man.
01:21It's a motor vehicle.
01:22And it's, erm, looks like it's been in collision with an electric scooter.
01:27The rider of the e-scooter is a 26-year-old man who is now fighting for his life.
01:34Sorry, you're the driver of the back horse here.
01:35You're the passenger.
01:36Two people were trapped.
01:37The driver of the e-scooter is a 26-year-old man who is now fighting for his life.
01:53Sorry, you're the driver of the back horse here.
01:58You're the passenger.
02:01Two people were travelling in the blue Vauxhall Corsa.
02:06Can you probably sit in my car a second?
02:08All right, that'll be good.
02:09Take a seat in there.
02:12The 18-year-old driver now needs to explain.
02:16You don't have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention one question,
02:21something that you may later rely on in court on.
02:23Anything that you do say may be given in evidence.
02:26The time is 2.31, off at a serious on 1442 Newport northbound.
02:38We've got some torches.
02:41Come on then.
02:42Nice going.
02:43As we've got there, the scooter rider was still being treated by the ambulance and the paramedic staff.
02:56I've heard you've had information on the side.
03:00Yeah, we've had a bit, yeah. We've had a bit.
03:05That particular scene was very busy. There was lots of people.
03:08Is there a side somewhere?
03:09Yeah, sorry, I was up there.
03:11There was lots of vehicles still within the scene.
03:17He still had evidential marks on the carriageway.
03:21See, this is a problem now.
03:24The thing is, we've got an active scene. We've got people walking through it.
03:27We have to be very careful of controlling where people were standing, where they were walking.
03:33Can we just make sure that nothing else moves now?
03:35Right. Perfect.
03:36Nice one. All right, thanks, Paul.
03:38So this is a point where we need to start being considerate of, like, scrape bins and...
03:44It's not necessarily to say there are any.
03:48Yeah.
03:49But there's always the potential.
03:51Those types of marks for us are the really essential bits of information that can help us piece together exactly what's happened.
04:00Hey, Sarge, all right?
04:01Hey, we're going all right?
04:03I've never seen anyone's socks come off. Maybe shoes.
04:06OK, so we've got socks, a bit of blood on.
04:17We've got the back wheel of the scooter.
04:25Yeah, certainly looks OK.
04:27So that was the primary thing for us to concentrate on when we got there,
04:31is just having that step back and trying to take all of it in.
04:37That looks like a bit of trim or something.
04:40A bit of a grill or something, maybe.
04:42Yeah.
04:43Until we work out, oh, that's a course or is it?
04:45Awesome. Let's hit it.
04:47And then identify, well, what can I see?
04:49What have I got in front of me?
04:51And what am I expecting to see based on the circumstances of the collision?
04:55The damage to the vehicle sort of started at the front near side corner,
05:04right around the bumper area,
05:06and it basically just extended across the bonnet into the windscreen,
05:15into the roof line and even across the top of the roof.
05:21Wow.
05:25But you could see, with the amount of damage caused to the vehicle,
05:28just how much intrusion into that passenger cabin there would have been.
05:35That really kind of pointed towards how the collision had occurred
05:38between the scooter rider and the car.
05:50You've got marks there, don't you?
05:52So you can actually see it there.
05:57We started to identify those bits of evidence that were important.
06:03We saw bits of vehicle trim.
06:07We also found sort of the rear plastics of the scooter.
06:13And we actually started to find fragments of the structure of the rear wheel
06:17that had been scattered across the road surface.
06:23We found a sock that was in the carriageway.
06:28We saw bits of jewelry.
06:32And we were then able to identify a shoe that was in the central reservation.
06:35And a second shoe, which was actually the other side of the opposite carriageway.
06:44Which was the matching shoe.
06:47It just went to show how things had just been thrown, you know, such a distance in such a degree,
06:56because of the forces involved.
06:59We just walk out of your shot a minute.
07:02So there's still some sort of public about...
07:07I'm not sure whether they passed it over the channel, but...
07:11They stopped treating him.
07:15Do we know he is yet?
07:16Not yet, but as soon as we can get any sort of ID to him,
07:21we obviously need to get a message to his family
07:24without somebody else getting to them first.
07:27Can't get an ID on him yet.
07:34I've certainly got no ID on him.
07:37I was aware that my colleagues were struggling with identifying the rider of the scooter.
07:41There's a McDonald's hat about 50 metres off the roundabout.
07:50Yeah.
07:52There was a cap that was actually in the carriageway.
07:57It was a good four or five hundred metres prior to the actual collision scene.
08:04Some of my colleagues were off doing enquiries with some of the local McDonald's restaurants.
08:09And we were able to subsequently identify him as part of those enquiries.
08:21With efforts underway to track down his family,
08:24officers now needed to know just how he was struck
08:28as he travelled along this stretch of road.
08:31When we got to the collision scene,
08:33the scooter itself was actually wedged underneath the front near-side corner of the car.
08:50It had remained in situ. Nobody had moved it.
08:52And I don't think anyone would have been able to move it,
08:54because it was jammed pretty tight underneath the car.
08:57There was two distinctive areas of damage that were identifiable on the scooter.
09:05One of which was the end of one of the handlebars.
09:08And another was the edge of the footplate.
09:10And when you looked at the damage to the scooter, you could then look at,
09:17well, if that damage has been caused in that way,
09:20there must be a mechanism for that damage to be caused.
09:24So we then went back through the scene very slowly.
09:27We were able to identify a bit of a dark transfer mark from the damage to the end of the handlebar.
09:33But also some sort of metal grindings which had been caused by the edge of the scooter as the car had basically sat on top of it and ground it into the road surface as it came to rest.
09:48Both of those marks were really helpful in identifying the path of both the scooter and the car post-collision.
09:59So realistically, if they're going at national speed limit speeds, our point of impact is probably behind Justin's car, I would have thought.
10:17Or possibly anyway.
10:18One of the first things that we looked to identify is the point of impact.
10:24But this particular collision, the point of impact wasn't immediately obvious.
10:31The fact that there was an e-scooter on a restricted dual carriageway was quite a strange circumstance to be in.
10:37So my thoughts were, well, if there is an e-scooter on that particular stretch, I was assuming it would be as close to the side of the carriageway as possible.
10:50But we then started considering some of the other marks that had been left by the vehicles.
10:55That's kind of a distinctive.
11:00Ooh.
11:02Ooh.
11:04When we first saw it, it was quite a distinctive S-shaped mark.
11:14That looks fresh.
11:15It was quite light in colour and didn't really match what we thought had happened initially.
11:23But would he be in the middle of the...
11:26Do you know what I mean?
11:27Yeah.
11:28It's an ask, isn't it, to be in...
11:30You know, we're questioning his...
11:32The sense in riding up here in the dark, but he wouldn't be in the middle of the lane, would you?
11:36No.
11:38It just doesn't seem to make sense, does it?
11:40No.
11:41Why would it be...?
11:42Be.
11:44But when we were able to piece it together with all of the other evidence,
11:48it became obvious that that mark had actually been where that scooter rider had been at the point that he was struck.
12:00It identified that the scooter rider had been travelling almost at the centre of lane one.
12:07Of a 70 mile an hour dual carriageway.
12:15At the scene of the crash, the rider's scooter remained trapped underneath the car.
12:21But now it's been recovered, and Matt wants to take a closer look.
12:31The main bit of damage is obviously the section at the rear.
12:34This would have been the very first bit that got struck by the car.
12:42But then you can also see that there's a lot of damage and kind of force that has been applied to this brake disc, causing it to be warped out of position.
12:52And you've also got, this is the remnants of the wheel itself that's been sort of broken into pieces, and that's also been compressed and has effectively fractured because it's been put under so much force.
13:05We'd found parts of the rear wheel sort of scattered across the carriageway, but I wanted to satisfy myself that the marks that I'd found were as a result of the initial collision.
13:22It's obviously going to be impossible to tell whether that light was working, because the actual light itself is missing.
13:28It's, yeah.
13:29But the cable in is present, so it would appear to be, or it's conceivable that it was working. Obviously we're never going to know that.
13:38Remember that first, that S shape that we were like, that doesn't look right to me?
13:48That's squiggle.
13:53There it is.
13:54That is where the car has collected the scooter and basically just pushed the whole scooter down into the ground.
14:02It's been, yeah.
14:03And then that S shape is going to be a combination of the car's motion and the scooter being kind of just like pushed down.
14:11Yeah, because it's ended up under.
14:13Yeah, exactly.
14:14Now we've found that, I'm 100% happy that that is what's caused that mark, definitely.
14:31I'll just try and power it now.
14:35We were still able to power it up, and when we did that, one of the very first things that came up on the display was the fact that it was in sport mode.
14:42He's up the top limit at 19 miles an hour.
14:49This little light here.
14:56That setting alone would suggest that it was very much feasible that the scooter rider could have been travelling at 19 miles an hour on the dual carriageway.
15:07But speed is only part of this inquiry.
15:12This is an identical version of the scooter that was involved in the collision that we've actually purchased to do some testing.
15:25It's really important for us to try and understand not only the collision itself, but the lead up and how this scooter would have worked for the person that was riding it at the time.
15:39I think they could be quite an appealing mode of transport.
15:46They're battery operated, you know, you can plug them in, they're charged in a couple of hours, and they don't take any effort.
15:53You can effectively press go, and as long as you can balance on it, you can use it.
16:00Braking is very simple, so very much like a bicycle brake.
16:04But there are strict rules around exactly where these scooters can be used.
16:10Some of the big cities are still running trials in relation to e-scooters, but in anywhere else but those trials, these scooters can only be used legally on private land with the landowners' consent.
16:22That's obviously got solid tyres as opposed to pneumatic tyres.
16:32So how does that feel to ride?
16:37It accelerates quite fast.
16:40It seems any little deviation you really feel.
16:47My back wheel went over a stone earlier, and the back end was off the surface for half a second.
16:54And it felt as if I was going a bit faster I think the back end would have gone.
16:58When you go to turn, I don't think I'd want to turn sharply.
17:06I'm going to pull the brake now and I get to the end.
17:09It'll kick in quite fast.
17:11But emergency brake on this, I think my foot would have to go on the floor.
17:14I wouldn't feel comfortable riding when on a road.
17:17I think if a car putting me under pressure, come too close to me or something like that, and I swerved, I think it would be very easy to lose.
17:25Yeah. To lose it. Lose control of, yeah.
17:26So if they haven't been hired within official trial areas, the law around privately owned scooters is clear.
17:35Those scooters are illegal to use on the roads.
17:39They're illegal to use on pavements, they're illegal to use anywhere that the public have access.
17:46And unfortunately a lot of people don't understand that and don't realise that.
17:50But not only are they legal, they make for very vulnerable road users.
17:59Can we have that?
18:00We'll get the test scooter. Yeah.
18:02Line it up.
18:03We'll get the test scooter. Yeah.
18:04Line it up.
18:05It'll be a good representation of, you know, what it would have looked like.
18:06Yeah.
18:07We'll get the test scooter. Yeah.
18:08Line it up.
18:09It'll be a good representation of, you know, what it would have looked like as the car is at the scooter.
18:14One of the first things we'll often do is we will try and put the vehicles back together.
18:17We'll get the test scooter. Yeah.
18:18Line it up.
18:19It'll be a good representation of, you know, what it would have looked like as the car is at the scooter.
18:23One of the first things we'll often do is we will try and put the vehicles back together to try and work out their orientations just at that point of impact.
18:36It just explains an awful lot as
19:05as to how that damage has been caused, doesn't it?
19:30So, I think what we'll do, if we move it out...
19:32Yeah.
19:35..if you stand on that.
19:42Oh, mate, that's awesome.
19:44So, if you were, like, as if you were riding...
19:47So, I'd be more like...
19:49Yeah, that's better.
19:52So, what we've done here is Bonnie's just helping just to, kind of,
19:56recreate the position of the scooter rider.
19:58So, it gives just an idea about where the knees would roughly be in relation to the front of the car,
20:07and then, obviously, as the car has struck the rider and the scooter,
20:11just exactly where the body would be thrown backwards onto the car
20:16and effectively up the bonnet and into the windscreen.
20:19You can see the damage is not just the front edge of the roof as well.
20:23It's actually creased right the length of the skin.
20:25Yeah, it really shows it, doesn't it, then?
20:27Yeah, it really shows it, doesn't it, then?
20:31Like that, from the side.
20:33That's what it would look like at the point of impact.
20:36We don't have any direction changes from the point of which the damage starts.
20:39Everything that we can see so far would suggest that the...
20:41the vehicles...
20:42and we use the term vehicles for the scooter as well,
20:44we're in the direction.
20:45Yeah, it really shows it, doesn't it, then?
20:46Yeah.
20:47Like that, from the side.
20:48That's what it would look like at the point of impact.
20:49We don't have any direction changes from the point of which the damage starts.
20:59Everything that we can see so far would suggest that the...
21:02the vehicles...
21:03and we use the term vehicles for the scooter as well,
21:05we're in line as they've struck.
21:09That would kind of suggest that the...
21:11the vehicle isn't swerving at the point at which it's collided.
21:16All the evidence that we could find when we did the...
21:18the refit suggested that the car had just driven into the e-scooter.
21:24The driver had taken no avoiding action.
21:28So that was definitely an element to try and work out,
21:30well, why was that the case?
21:33Right, lights then, so Fred, headlights working, cos they're on.
21:38The fundamental inquiry for us was all about view and vision.
21:43Full beam?
21:43Yeah, they're fine.
21:45Fogs on the front.
21:47I'd actually driven that stretch myself in my personal car,
21:51and I'd even driven that thinking at night,
21:56there seems to be plenty of visibility.
22:00I couldn't understand why the driver of that car hadn't had
22:04tens of seconds of view, even travelling at 70 miles an hour.
22:09And based on that, the decision was made to try and reconstruct the collision.
22:13The team are now back at the scene of the crash at the same time of night.
22:23The team are now back at the scene of the crash at the same time of night.
22:37We've organised for the road to be closed,
22:39and then we've also then sourced a similar vehicle to the subject vehicle that was involved.
22:50At the point of impact, I think the car has literally just gone straight on top of the scooter,
22:55pushed the scooter down into the ground and has basically stayed on top of the scooter,
22:59grinding it into the carriageway, basically.
23:01Good book.
23:02That make sense?
23:03Yeah.
23:04Although it's quite small, it's quite bright.
23:08It may be different a bit further back, but that's the whole idea of bringing it tonight.
23:13We've also then taken the clothing that he was wearing at the time,
23:17which allows us then to sort of visually reproduce what the rider looked like from the rear.
23:25We've tried to replicate the conditions as closely as possible to investigate exactly
23:30what the scooter looked like as it was travelling down the road.
23:34So working on the idea that the car could have been travelling at 70 miles an hour,
23:40and the fact that the scooter rider could have been travelling at 15 or 19 miles an hour,
23:44we then set out a series of cones that the positions those vehicles would have been at
23:50one, two, three, four and five seconds prior to impact.
23:53Ready?
23:54Yeah, yeah.
23:56Jump on, Squire.
23:57So if you go back to five, and we'll work forwards.
24:06See, with nothing else, no other light pollution.
24:10That's clear as day, isn't it?
24:13The big difference would be when we put that here, full beam headlights on.
24:23I don't see whether I can do the other!
24:30Beep!
24:30Red three, mate, eh?
24:31Yes, yes, I'm red three, mate.
24:39Red two then, Chris, please.
24:40The final piece of this inquiry
25:10will be us videoing the approach to the point of impact.
25:16Right, you ready?
25:18OK.
25:21Start there.
25:23OK.
25:25So we're at full beam.
25:26So we're just going to head towards the point of impact now
25:29at around sort of 10 miles an hour
25:31just to give a visual representation.
25:34And all I can see at the moment is that small red light.
25:37It's any different to the road surface.
25:41Still can't see anything.
25:49I can just about now see the design on the back of his jacket.
25:54And only now can I realise that that is actually in the middle of my lane.
25:57And only now has he sort of come into really crisp view.
26:15Wow.
26:16I knew what I was looking for.
26:22And it was not until fractions of a second prior to that point of impact
26:27that I was able to identify him for what he was.
26:31Thank you, mate.
26:33I think that's us now.
26:34This footage was captured at a speed of just 10 miles an hour.
26:41But on the night of the crash,
26:43the driver said they'd been travelling at 70 miles an hour
26:46when all of a sudden they hit something.
26:50It's not until we did the reconstruction that we appreciated.
26:54Because it was a very gentle left-hand bend,
26:57the small red light on the back of the scooter
26:59almost blended into the red cat's eyes on the edge of carriageway.
27:07It was not until you got very close that that red light
27:10actually stood away from those cat's eyes.
27:16The design on the back of his jacket was a circular design,
27:20and it was quite distinctive.
27:21But unfortunately, there was a circular sign
27:26on the edge of the carriageway,
27:28and that just served to blend him
27:30into the overall environment of the collision scene,
27:33which again made it even more difficult
27:34for the driver of the car to identify him as a hazard.
27:39Under no circumstances would you expect to see
27:42an e-scooter in the middle of lane one
27:45of a dual carriageway in the dark.
27:51No charges were brought against the 18-year-old driver.
27:56I can imagine it was a very traumatic experience,
27:59and probably still continues to be so.
28:05Investigations revealed that the 26-year-old e-scooter rider
28:08was almost two and a half times the drink drive limit.
28:12Intoxication maybe answered a lot of questions
28:16as to why he ended up being in that position
28:19and the circumstances that he found himself in.
28:24As sad as it is,
28:25it was that scooter rider's decision
28:27which ultimately resulted in his death.
28:30Again, it was not in the same direction
28:31with the 31-year-old driver.
28:32It was a very difficult operation
28:33It's no.
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