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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 Codendorf area of this dual 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 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 truce.
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.
01:02A465 Eastbound.
01:04A465 Eastbound.
01:06Can only keep your partial investment echo.
01:08This is a hospital flight exhibition.
01:10A465 Eastbound.
01:12A465 Eastbound.
01:14A465 Eastbound.
01:16Can only keep your partial investment echo.
01:18This is a hospital flight exhibition.
01:20We have a vehicle failing to stop, failing to stop.
01:22A465 Eastbound.
01:24A465 Eastbound.
01:26A465 Eastbound.
01:27A465 Eastbound.
01:28Can only keep your partial investment echo.
01:30This is a hospital flight exhibition.
01:32A465 Eastbound.
01:34A465 Eastbound.
01:36A465 Eastbound.
01:38I'm at least home in one's office.
01:40A465 Eastbound.
01:42A465 Eastbound.
01:44Yeah, stand down, stand down. It's hit. Somebody in the road works. It's hit. A road worker.
01:56No unit. These ambulance on a hurry up. His male's got an open fracture to his leg.
02:04Yeah, that's Steve.
02:068465, eastbound, Tadiga, towards Emma Vale. W, let's get this road closed, please.
02:14Tango's here at 1. It's been shut now so the helicopter can land.
02:21The ambulance on the ground.
02:28As doctors treat a seriously injured man at the roadside, the car involved is nowhere to be seen.
02:35We've had the report of a vehicle that's failed to stop for a police patrol vehicle, and in failing to stop, it's hit a worker on the road.
02:49All we have at the moment is potential serious injuries, and we're searching for the vehicle.
02:55While this is all going ahead, I'll have a look at the footage.
03:00We 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.
03:10Yeah.
03:11But it's got a really loud exhaust on it, and the number plate's running italics, so you can't actually read.
03:15The 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 happen with the vehicle, is it?
03:25No.
03:29But traffic cameras also cover this stretch of road.
03:34Go ahead.
03:35And officers have been trawling through the footage.
03:38Local searches for vehicles matching this description
04:07are now urgently underway.
04:17The 24-year-old man who's been injured is now stable enough to be taken to hospital.
04:23You're going in the ambulance as opposed to the helicopter, yeah?
04:26OK.
04:27Yeah, you can go back home.
04:28Cool, thank you.
04:28As you can see, what we have is a two-lane section to deal with the carriageway.
04:37So they coned off this down to one lane, with the right-hand lane being the live lane,
04:40the 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 a road worker before making off and feeling it to stop.
04:57Occasionally, he's going to go in the ambulance.
04:59He's not going to go with the helicopter now.
05:02Do you know, what's his injuries?
05:04So he's got an open fracture to his typh and his fib.
05:09He has got head injuries as well, but they're not concerned about those.
05:11So they're saying, move off in about five minutes.
05:16He remembers everything.
05:16He wasn't locked out at any point,
05:18so he's still fairly complex mental now with all the drugs.
05:21Do you want an account from him?
05:23No. 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.
05:33Hello, sorry, me again.
05:34Before you move off, am I able to just have a quick chat with him
05:37just to see if he remembers anything at all?
05:38Our guy, he's going to blow up, so he's blowing the leaves.
05:44The guy that was struck, that's his machine.
05:46Right.
05:47They don't want to cause you any more trauma,
05:49but can you remember roughly what happened?
05:52I was just blowing in the road,
05:54and I could hear this noise,
05:56and as I looked at them,
05:57I could see the spoiltments of a machine either coming at me,
06:01and I didn't have time to do anything.
06:02Was he struck in the cold-off lane, or was he in a live lane?
06:07In the cold-off lane.
06:08He was in the dead lane.
06:09Yes.
06:10All I could see was it driving up the dead lane.
06:13And do you remember which part of the car hit you?
06:16As I looked at the car, the right hand side.
06:18OK.
06:19So, like, the passenger side, yeah?
06:22This belongs to him.
06:24Was this where he was laying?
06:25Yeah.
06:26Yeah, he was sat down when the guys saw him.
06:28OK, mate, I'll leave him to get you down to hospital, OK?
06:34You're in good hands.
06:35Thanks, guys.
06:38Yeah, he's saying he was working about a metre or so away
06:41from the solid white line, blowing the grass.
06:43Uh-huh.
06:43He can hear a loud noise, looks up,
06:45and the white Mitsubishi Evo, as he's described it,
06:48has been coming...
06:49He said home, so?
06:49Yeah, has been travelling down the dead lane.
06:51Mm-hm.
06:52He said he wouldn't...
06:52The Evo 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.
06:59It's hit him, and he couldn't tell you which way it went.
07:01It was just travelling at speed.
07:14The driver might have fled this scene.
07:18Where's the debris?
07:20A little bit by there.
07:20But it's not been the cleanest of getaways.
07:25Under that one.
07:26Under that one.
07:28The parts suspect from the vehicle.
07:30We put it in the hood,
07:30and we need the helicopters landing.
07:36Yeah, that's fine.
07:39There's another bit of trim there, possibly.
07:44Looks a bit possibly around the front of the bumper, is it?
07:46That's the near-side door mirror.
07:58From a white vehicle.
07:59I suspect it's a white Mitsubishi, so the colour is correct.
08:03We've got quite a bit of debris from the vehicle.
08:05It's typical of an incident like this where debris from a vehicle is deposited along the road as it's made off.
08:21Ideally, what I'd like to identify is the point of where the road worker was struck.
08:24There's a fibre there.
08:33It seems to match some clothing.
08:36The scratch and the scrapes here, the start here, you've got a deafening mark running through you.
08:51There, lot.
08:51So that could be where he stood, a deposit of grass or whatever.
08:58But that suggests to me the evidence for debris we've got,
09:02and this mark here that it is relatively local.
09:05He's been spun around and fought his leg.
09:09We'll find out which leg it is now.
09:12Which leg is it?
09:15Left leg.
09:18She said he had his back to the traffic.
09:20Yeah, she'd be a bit of his left leg then.
09:21South Wales Police, which is an emergency?
09:38Hi, I've just had a phone call to say that my car has been seen flying down the A465.
09:47Right, OK, and how long ago was this?
09:50About...
09:50I've just had a phone call now.
09:52I'm not at home.
09:53So is your car stolen or something, is it?
09:55Well, it must be love, yeah.
09:58So who rang you?
10:00My friend, my mate.
10:02He said, mate, do you want to slow down in that car?
10:04I was like, what do you mean?
10:05And he was like, do you need to slow down?
10:07I said, I'm not...
10:10I haven't got my car, but.
10:11And what type of vehicle is it?
10:13It's Mitsubishi Evo.
10:15What colour?
10:16White.
10:16So what's the registration number of the car?
10:22It's F5 Evo.
10:24Well, what I need you to do, I need you to go home and just verify that the car isn't there.
10:37Someone in Mercer has just reported that Mitsubishi Evo is wiped and stolen.
10:42Foxtrot 5, echo Victor Oscar.
10:46He said that it's been stolen and her friend has told her who's been seen on the A465.
10:49Roger, that is all received questions.
10:55South Wales Police.
10:57Oh, hiya.
10:58I rang in earlier on to say I think my car's been stolen.
11:02OK.
11:03I've come home now and my car's definitely got off my drive.
11:09Officer on their way now to check that out.
11:13To confirm whether it's the vehicle we're looking for or not.
11:16Do you want to come in?
11:23Yes, please, bud.
11:23Yeah.
11:27I'm better days, bud.
11:28I'm better days.
11:30I'm better a couple of months to be fair, yeah.
11:33What's happened, bud?
11:34Can we help you?
11:35Well, my car's gone, mate.
11:37So what time or what's happened as far as you're concerned?
11:41Me and my missus have split up.
11:42We've split up now for a couple of months.
11:44Um, it's been armoured, but it's not been, you know, it's not been the best.
11:50He says they still share the same house, and that morning had an argument about selling
11:55the car.
11:57I went out then about 10.30, and then obviously when I come back in, the car's gone off and
12:04drive it.
12:05But a second officer has been carrying out further enquiries.
12:09Anthony, I've obviously just spoke to your neighbour.
12:16You're all captured on the ring doorbell.
12:18Right.
12:18Getting in the car, leaving.
12:20You'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 has not come back here.
12:30Right.
12:30At this time, but 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
12:40as far as I'm inferred.
12:44Okay.
12:45You're going to have to come to the police station with us.
12:47You are under arrest at the moment on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
12:52OK?
12:53Yeah.
12:53We'll put them all in front.
12:54Yeah, yeah.
12:54That's what we're doing.
12:56Cool.
13:01How long will it take?
13:03No, it's late, Sean.
13:11It's a good shelter to ring the doorbell.
13:14He's making everything he's going wrong.
13:18Two six feet drafted.
13:19Two six feet, all right.
13:20Yeah, when they should put on an arrest attempt, there's evidence of him getting in this vehicle
13:26at the material types.
13:29He's given us a story which is completely different to that.
13:33Yeah, Roger, I'll let the signal now.
13:36Right, July, we've made an arrest.
13:39We've made an arrest.
13:43What's the address?
13:43And a near neighbour or someone nearby puts him in the car, leaves him with a dress.
13:51Excellent.
13:54Hello, 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.
14:20And is now admitting to being at the wheel.
14:26OK, right, you're in the car.
14:27Yeah.
14:27What's going on?
14:28What happened?
14:29Basically, I'm just driving like I normally do.
14:31Mm-hmm.
14:31Um, I'm a really careful driver.
14:33Um, and I thought I'd seen, like, a police car up on the, up on the hill, but I wasn't
14:38sure.
14:40Then it dawned on me, ****, I'm decarating to do it.
14:43I 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-hmm.
14:50Like...
14:51But you were trying to escape because you've seen the car, but, yeah, go on.
14:53Yeah, yeah.
14:54What's happened then?
14:55As I'm coming down, what I'm thinking now is, obviously, that's a closed road.
15:00Because as I've gone in, a cone has hit my wing mirror.
15:03I'm panicking and I've damaged my car.
15:06Then I've had, like, another impact, thinking of hit another cone.
15:10Because it was just, this wing mirror's gone.
15:12Mm-hmm.
15:13And then, obviously, I'm more panicking, because I just sort of got off then as quickly as
15:17I can.
15:18That's when they phoned the police then and reported the stolen.
15:21Right.
15:22So it wasn't stolen, then?
15:23Obviously, no, no.
15:25What we didn't have at that point is the whereabouts of the car.
15:29Um, so, uh, the inquiries were still ongoing.
15:32So where did you actually park the car?
15:34They parked the car up in Pound Stredger and then just parked it in the middle of the car
15:38park.
15:39It wasn't until we had an initial interview that the driver admitted that he had parked
15:45the car in a local car park and then walked home.
15:50No.
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 you're finishing.
15:55Yeah.
15:55Unless there's anything you really want to tell us?
15:57Um, can I speak to him first?
16:00With officers en route to retrieve the car, he now wants to change his story.
16:05I parked the car in Pound Stredger.
16:07I've walked off from the car.
16:09Mm-hmm.
16:10And then I thought, I can't leave my car here.
16:13It's a £50,000 car.
16:15So I've gone back, got my car.
16:18There's a lane.
16:19So I've just put the car up there.
16:31He'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.
16:38It 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, um, it has.
16:53What damage was on the car, then, when you left it?
16:58This is why I'm, this is why I'm shocked that someone got hit, right?
17:02Because, obviously, my two wingman is gone.
17:05Two with both sides?
17:06The one is, the one is glass, we're saying.
17:10Mm-hmm.
17:11The one is gone.
17:12And then there's a dent in my wing, passenger side.
17:29It's not even proper body with this old fella.
17:33And my splinter's hanging off.
17:36First thing I noticed was this carbon fiber on the front that looked exactly like that
17:41that was left at the scene.
17:50But there's no, like, bumper damage, no bonnet damage, so...
17:53OK.
17:54Like, for me, thinking if I'd hit someone, there would be a lot more damage than that.
17:58This 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 his
18:14torso, even his head may be contacted.
18:16Yeah.
18:16That'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.
18:26...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.
18:32Obviously, this doesn't marry up with the mirror cone at all, does it?
18:38Certainly not.
18:38There'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.
18:48But the appearance of this car is now raising questions about what might be hiding under the
18:54bonnet.
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.
19:07Yep.
19:082004, manufacturer.
19:10It's not exported, so it's a British car.
19:14But what he had done is added modifications to the vehicle to greatly enhance the vehicle's
19:22performance.
19:23So, what we needed to do is get a qualified vehicle examiner, to have a look at the vehicle,
19:29to examine the vehicle.
19:35That's an aftermarket inlet manifold, aftermarket exhaust manifold, all of this, all of the
19:41stuff around the turbo, which is the bit that forces the air into, obviously, into the
19:45engine, has been replaced and upgraded.
19:47All 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...
20:05What brake horsepower is it?
20:10Um, it's an FQ 330, so it's around 330 brake.
20:16FQ 330?
20:17330 brake?
20:18Yeah.
20:19While 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.
20:30Hello, world, and welcome back to Accelerate.
20:32And 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.
20:39This is what all the time that our cars use.
20:41Right.
20:41It was posted on YouTube two days before this collision.
20:45And it was recently, like 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 brake.
20:59But in reality, when you looked at the video, he'd suggested that 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?
21:15Especially on a day like today, it is raining.
21:18And Anthony's attitude is just, this is what they're built for, so we're still going to have some fun.
21:22You can hear the car brake traction as all four wheels spin up.
21:34So if you listen now, you can hear the car's broken traction, and that's why you hear that it hit the limiter,
21:43basically, hit the rev limiter of the engine.
21:45Oh, I imagine this video is just going to be me giggling like a schoolgirl,
21:51but that was, I mean, that was second gear, it just spanned then, didn't it?
21:55It just spins, but it's, the thing's insane.
21:58Yeah.
21:59Second gear, it just spanned.
22:00It just spanned, it lit the wheels up.
22:04He's put a normal lap powder in, but he's got one hand on the wheel, one hand on the gear stick.
22:08Yeah, it can go wrong very quickly, and he won't be in a position to do a lot of it.
22:16The passengers having to grab the seatbelt, he's on the seatbelt.
22:19Maximum acceleration, you know, they're trying to get the maximum performance out of it for the effect.
22:26You've been full of them, it's just red to my stomach.
22:31You're tuned to your stomach, yeah.
22:34Yeah, it's a brutal car, I guess.
22:36I don't say hats off to you, like, in this ride, even in my car, I wouldn't be pushing any of my cars,
22:40and it has to be you.
22:42A philosophy.
22:45It's like my mate, Dave, he's been in loads of fast cars, and I picked this up the other day,
22:50and we went out, and he was like, he'll tell him, he's sh**ed up, he said,
22:54just slow down, bro.
22:55He said, I love the new car, you're doing 175 an hour, like, he said, just slow down.
23:00175.
23:02Whether you believe him or not, he's telling people he's doing 175,
23:05I've never driven that car in anger, you know what I mean?
23:10That car is my everything, like, you know what I mean?
23:14Even when I take it on a track day, it's looked after, you know what I mean?
23:18It's never been hammered, it's never been, sort of, used and, like, abused like some performance cars are.
23:24The worrying thing about it is when I did the examination of it, the actual condition of the vehicle,
23:31there was a lot of damage that had been caused to it, and quite clearly,
23:37that damage had been caused by the way in which it had been driven as well.
23:40A lot of the suspension mounts are all very worn or were damaged.
23:44It's easy to see if it's been driven consistently in this sort of manner,
23:48the reasons why that damage may have been there.
23:50If I'd pulled that car over on the side of the road as a normal traffic stop,
23:57realistically, I probably wouldn't have let it go because of the damage
24:01and some of the faults that I'd found with it.
24:03And on the day of the crash, officers parked by the side of the road did attempt to pull the car over.
24:12The camera on the patrol car couldn't read the number plate, and this raised suspicion.
24:20Despite reaching speeds of 131 miles an hour, the 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 Evo pass it now.
24:46And he's braking.
24:53Goes off at the intersection.
24:57And the witness car carries on.
25:01I only noticed the police car, like, in the distance, flashing lights
25:06as I went up on the turn off of a trigger.
25:09But that was the point where it dawned on me
25:11that my car wasn't assured
25:13and this police officer was probably coming after me.
25:18So he decides to rejoin the dual carriageway.
25:21So, obviously, I've needed to overtake the lorry.
25:26So I've gone into, like, what would be the arch holder.
25:30You'll see the Mitsubishi ducked into the clothesline,
25:34taking the cones out as well.
25:37And then we lose sight of it.
25:43You'll see a patrol car now pass as well on the inside.
25:47And then the patrol car comes to a stop
25:54because the injured person, as you can see,
25:56is, at this point, he's sat up in the road
25:59having been struck by the Evo.
26:02What's said to you when you're doing your driving licence?
26:08Um, only use the arch holder for emergencies.
26:11OK, so what did you use it for?
26:13But at the time, that was an emergency for me.
26:16I believed that that was an emergency for me.
26:19So, you know, putting myself back there,
26:23that was an emergency for me.
26:26What did you class as the emergency?
26:31Um, no one's sure what's in my car.
26:34My £50,000 car getting taken off me.
26:37I haven't had him patented,
26:39being, getting dragged onto a lorry,
26:41you know, all that.
26:43But he's still denying hitting the road worker.
26:47If I knew I'd hit someone,
26:48I would have stopped immediately.
26:52And that is the God's honest truth.
26:54Like, I'm not a bad person.
26:57We were confident that vehicle had struck the road worker,
27:01but we needed that tiny bit of evidence
27:04to 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.
27:19Fibres, eh? Orange fibres?
27:21Orange fibres, yeah.
27:23They were a match to the trousers being worn by the road worker.
27:31What do you think now?
27:34Um, Dali must have.
27:36What was he hit?
27:38That person.
27:38This young man, who's trying to make a living,
27:45from that point, his life changed forever.
27:47He'll never be the same again.
27:51Ultimately, his significant injury is going to affect the way he lives the rest of his life.
27:56The driver admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and perverting the course of justice.
28:06He was jailed for three years and four months, and the car has now been sold.
28:23His arrogance got the better of him, I think.
28:25And his obsession with the car probably clouded his judgment, to the detriment of this young man.
28:34He got the car sido he's in its own shilling dad.
28:35He got the better of him.
28:36With the carsam genial man.
28:36He was in love habit.
28:37He got the better of him.
28:39Over
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