The Crash Detectives Season 5 Episode 5

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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 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'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.

00:53All in a day's work for the crash detectives.

00:58Police emergency.

00:59There's...

01:00Oh my God.

01:02Well, there's a head on collision.

01:04Okay.

01:05Two lorries involved.

01:06Does it look like anybody needs an ambulance?

01:07Is anyone injured?

01:08Definitely.

01:09There's a guy in the front of the one lorry.

01:10I don't know whether he's dead or what.

01:12I don't know.

01:13I don't know whether he's dead or what.

01:14I don't know.

01:15Okay.

01:16All right, lovely, no problem.

01:17I'm going to send somebody down as an emergency straight away to you.

01:18All right?

01:19All right.

01:20All right.

01:21All right.

01:22We're on our way to a report of two heavy goods vehicles.

01:24Having collided head on.

01:25We're on our way to a report of two heavy goods vehicles.

01:26Having collided head on.

01:27We're on our way to a report of two heavy goods vehicles.

01:28に Yes.

01:29All right, man.

01:30We're looking forward to a report of a single car on a local industrial stage.

01:41We're on our way to a report of two heavy goods vehicles.

01:50to a report of two heavy goods vehicles

01:52having collided head on on a local industrial estate.

02:11Critical care doctors are trying to treat a 55-year-old man

02:15who is currently trapped in his cab.

02:20Looking at it, I put it as life-threatening at the moment.

02:24100%.

02:25OK, so we're going to keep it as life-threatening

02:27until the sun...

02:28You know what it's like, right?

02:38The only report we've had at the moment

02:40is one of the drivers appears to be seriously injured.

02:50There's still a fair bit of activity

02:52in relation to the fire service.

02:53You see, you've got three of their trucks here at the moment.

02:58Potentially a volatile scene.

02:59What that means is we have to assess

03:01whether we're potentially going to lose any evidence

03:02because of the activity that's going on here.

03:04as far as we know, has anything been moved?

03:09no.

03:11With the driver now cut free,

03:25Dean and colleague Rhys Dickinson

03:28begin to assess this crash scene.

03:30scene. As far as we know, has anything been moved? No. Literally, fire service, ambulance,

03:36us, we've all arrived at the same sort of time. So what we've got is what we've turned

03:41up to, basically. Obviously, the debris's been kicked about because they've been trying

03:44to get him out, so... He's going to go to Cardiff. He's going to be taking the drink

03:52of the heat, I think. What's the extent of his injuries at the moment? Massive haematoma

03:56to the side of his head. Potential fracture to his left leg. HeliMed are going to treat

04:02it as life-threatening until he's got a CT scan on the head. This guy's no... There's no

04:11concerns for him. He's all right at the moment. We've got an officer with him. Which one is

04:14he? The dash cams in there? No, two dash cams. Dash cams in both. One in this one. Fire

04:25service have asked to cut it round to get him out to do the windscreen. They've cut

04:28it round in, so it is in one piece. That one hasn't been touched. Nothing has been touched

04:33in that since we've turned it up. Okay. Everything's been kept still, as possible.

04:38Officers now want more details about this lorry's journey leading up to the crash. Just thinking

04:44all the businesses off to the right. Can we do a fast track up there to see if he's come

04:48out of any of them? Okay. Find out the route of the... Yeah. Cheers, man. Has he got any

04:55notes in there? I haven't got in there, obviously. I didn't want to touch anything until the voice

05:01turned up and... I think that's all open. Can't say anything obvious. Doug will move

05:07anything. You've got the one casualty has come from the truck where the fire service have been

05:17been at work and they've cut part of the truck away to be able to get the driver out. So

05:22the damage, obviously, is going to be different to that immediately after the impact. The fire

05:26service have been doing their work. So they managed to get him out. They're treating him

05:29at the stretcher at the side of the road now and assessing him before they move him off to

05:32the hospital. This driver, he's been assessed and thankfully he doesn't appear to be too seriously injured.

05:42And a search of his cab has revealed more about the trip.

05:47Trevor, it looks as if he might have come out of Oakwood close to Pennyvan Industrial Park.

05:51All right. No worries. I'll send him up there now. Which is weird.

05:54Cheers, mate. Is that... Would that be the junction on the right up there now?

05:57Yeah, I think it is. There we are. No worries, mate. If they can do the enquiries here

06:02and whether we have any footage of him leaving. OK.

06:21As wider investigations focus on this lorry's movements before the crash, Dean and Rhys have

06:29questions about the position it's in now. Is he reversing?

06:36I'm certainly not been shunting that part back, is he? The obvious thing that strikes me

06:42is that there's quite a distance between the trucks. It can occur whether one vehicle can

06:48rebound off. But when you've got trucks that potentially they both in excess of 38, 40 tonnes,

06:54it would be unusual for a vehicle like this to rebound that far after impact.

07:03So could establishing the point the two lorries collided explain more?

07:08Yeah, I've got it. Yeah. Point of impact? Yeah.

07:15Excuse me, mate. Can you just not stand right there?

07:18We've got an obvious lock wheel mark going into a scuff off to the left.

07:32The nature of that mark tells us that the point of impact is at that point there.

07:37The lorries probably would have been together after impact.

07:40I would think he's possibly reversed off to be able to get at the casualty.

07:58What's that side, guys? Yeah, yeah, please.

08:02Just clearing the scene now, clearing everything away. Once I finish, then we can assess what's going on.

08:07The injured driver might be on his way to hospital, but there's still evidence here to reveal his actions in the lead-up to the collision.

08:22So you're looking for brake marks and other features on the road surface.

08:26We've identified already there's a number of what appear to be locked wheel marks from the rear trailer wheels.

08:31You may have potentially locked wheel marks from the rear of the tractor unit as well.

08:38So all that would build a picture of how much time the driver had to react and what distance he had to react in it.

08:44But this crash involves 44 tonne trucks capable of carrying huge or potentially dangerous loads.

09:03Do we know if this is carrying anything?

09:05We don't know what we're carrying, just know what we're carrying and keep hazardous.

09:08OK.

09:22Oh, cool. Not much.

09:23Lovely. That's all in it?

09:24Yeah.

09:25Just confirm with that. I know he's got his delivery notes, but it has got and has come just an orange board.

09:38We've just looked in the back of that one. That's just got some boxes of stuff.

09:42And they've just said this one's supposed to be empty. I'm not trusting. I'm going to check anyway.

09:46There are boards on there that shows that he does carry hazardous goods, even though the board is closed. It's worth a check.

09:58Confirmed empty?

09:59Empty?

10:00Yep.

10:03Now the focus turns to other vehicles needing to access this busy industrial area.

10:09All the ambulance on fire are going out.

10:12Oh.

10:13Um, the only thing we've got left end, which is a bit of a problem, is trapped traffic at the top, trapped lorries, airways.

10:20Do you think we can get them on the near side on the pavement without interrupting the scene?

10:25If there's nothing in that lane, it's going to be an issue. They can come down that lane.

10:28OK.

10:30Yeah, because there's no other way out for them.

10:32Oh, I know.

10:33Because all the lorries are stuck up that way, there is literally no other way they can get out.

10:45So we're just assessing up this end to see if this lane hasn't got any evidence at all,

10:50and we're going to clear the lorries and get all them through.

10:54So if we can, we try and open it up for them, but we've got to make sure we're not going to lose any evidence by doing it.

10:59So we're just looking for any pre-impact marks from the lorry.

11:09So we've got a bit coming through here, which could be one of the trailer wheels locking up.

11:16So it's just that one bit there, then?

11:18Yeah, just that there, potentially.

11:20Potentially.

11:39With pressure eased for now, there's time to take a closer look at exactly how the lorries have made contact.

11:50And the location of the damage reveals details about the actions of each driver.

12:06That one hasn't been moved at all, so if you position that truck here, he's obviously tried to take a base of action, haven't he?

12:11Yeah.

12:12He's tried to turn to the left.

12:14He's tried to swerve.

12:15Yeah, he is swerve.

12:16Yeah.

12:17And he's just come straight.

12:18And he's gone straight.

12:19Yeah.

12:20And something inside the cab has now caught their eye.

12:33Very interesting, Neil.

12:34Look, the seat belt's clipped in.

12:40I came up to have a look, and first of all, you can see that it is actually locked.

12:45So that means this is the position he was in at the time of the impact.

12:50Literally, we thought that he wasn't wearing it because we thought it was clipped into the receiver and just lying across, which would have shown that he was sort of sat on it.

12:59But when I've got in, it's actually not clipped in, and the receiver is down this end.

13:04So in all likelihood, someone has actually undone it when they've tried to get him out of you.

13:15Oh, have a look at that camera while you're there.

13:17Yeah.

13:19It's a locked one.

13:20Locked, is it?

13:27As enquiries begin to access the footage...

13:35..the other lorry might prove more straightforward.

13:43So we're going to seize the dash cam from this one.

13:46Obviously, we can't from the other one because it's a unit that we can't tamper with.

13:50I'll turn it off first so anything's saved.

14:00You're looking to be over on me.

14:03These dash cams are not always running, as we know, but fingers crossed it is. It's recorded the incident.

14:19One of the first things we saw when we arrived at the scene is that the vehicle was a Polish registered vehicle.

14:24A left-hand drive.

14:29There were locked wheel marks or skid marks on the road surface from this vehicle.

14:35The obvious conclusion at that point was, for whatever reason, the driver was on the wrong side of the road at the time of the impact.

14:43The driver has been checked out in hospital.

14:58He spent the night in custody and now needs to explain just why he appears to have got it so wrong.

15:04The reason for this interview is because you've been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

15:16He's answering questions with help from a translator.

15:19I've got the dash cam footage from his vehicle.

15:26He doesn't have to do it or he can do it if he wants to.

15:31He doesn't have to do it.

15:32He doesn't have to do it.

15:33He doesn't have to do it.

15:34He doesn't have to do it.

15:35He doesn't have to do it.

15:36No, no, no.

15:37Because this will not be good for my mental health.

15:43If he could, could you talk me through what happened leading up to the collision?

15:52But first, he says he wants to talk about his health.

15:55So, it was like this. I came to England this month.

16:04But what I remember is that I got a high temperature.

16:11I had this really bad cough and sweating and it was like a cold.

16:16I didn't have medication.

16:17Despite feeling unwell, the driver said he continued with his work.

16:34So, I went to the place where I was unloading.

16:38But I have to say that it was hard work and I felt that my cough was increasing.

16:47What we know is that he was delivering to the premises on this industrial estate.

16:58And he's obviously dropped off his delivery and he's coming back out to the main road.

17:07After unloading, I did all my paperwork.

17:10Then the cough came on.

17:13But then it stopped and I went to the junction.

17:28I stopped before the junction because of the cough.

17:31But then the cough went away and I thought it was okay.

17:37You've got traffic coming from his left-hand side, which was a bit of a clue that they were on the correct side of the road.

17:50He starts to move off towards the junction.

17:52He sees a give way line.

17:54And then he's turning left onto the main industrial road.

17:59You see he pulls out.

18:03And initially he appears to be going towards the left-hand side of the road.

18:07Then he comes back to the right-hand side.

18:11When I pulled out, the cough came on again, but it was so severe and so accurate that I saw blackness.

18:25I felt like I almost vomited, like I was throwing up.

18:30It was awful.

18:34The vehicle accelerated up to around 20 miles per hour.

18:38And it continued for approximately 120 to 130 metres.

18:42And then the catastrophe.

18:44And then the catastrophe.

19:04That's the first available view the truck drivers would have had of each other.

19:07Approximately 60 metres between them.

19:12The driver probably can't believe what's happening.

19:15He's confronted with another truck coming towards him.

19:18Filling the road in front of him.

19:21A sheer panic, I would have thought.

19:25But was the other driver able to react in any way?

19:28What you will see from the truck coming towards us is the hazard lights will suddenly come on.

19:35You see the hazard lights on and flashing.

19:42What that indicates is that he's applied maximum braking.

19:46And the truck has realised it's in an emergency situation.

19:49And the hazard lights will automatically come on.

19:52There was locked wheel marks or skid marks on the road surface that showed us that he'd brake prior to the impact.

20:02At this point as well you see him trying to turn to the left.

20:07The natural reaction is to swerve away from the danger.

20:11The driver's hand there.

20:20It's his right hand doing that.

20:25You know the corners of the vehicle have taken the brunt of the impact rather than the full frontal.

20:30If he hadn't attempted to swerve to the left then it probably would have been head on.

20:37So he did have time to try and do something.

20:40But not enough time.

20:47And the dash cam in his lorry was also recording.

20:50There we are.

20:51That's the Polish vehicle coming towards us now.

20:52There we are.

21:18That's the Polish vehicle coming towards us now.

21:20He is completely on the wrong side of the road.

21:25And in fact he starts to bend more towards his right and our left.

21:30I hit my head on the window and because of that I think I blacked out but before blacking out I saw that the other drivers face.

21:55So I managed to reverse.

22:05The collision was huge.

22:07You had a combined impact speed of around 45 miles per hour.

22:11It's effectively like one or both of the vehicles driving into a brick wall.

22:14A brick wall that doesn't collapse.

22:19They both stopped at the point of impact.

22:23Such was the magnitude of the impact.

22:28But was there any reaction from the driver who was travelling on the wrong side of the road?

22:37From the available evidence it appears that the Polish driver didn't take any evasive action other than being able to break at or just immediately before the impact itself.

22:49If he's got a cough and he feels like blacking out, why didn't he pull over and stop?

22:58I think I became for a short period of time I became disoriented because I felt like this cough is like taking my lungs out.

23:13He suggested that the cause of the collision was him suffering a coughing fit.

23:23What was significant about that was obviously the dash cam that the vehicle recorded everything, including audio.

23:31Is he aware that this dash cam has sound recording as well?

23:36I didn't know but then it should record it then.

23:52As the vehicle moves off you can hear the satellite navigation system, you can hear the engine and you can hear the indicators.

24:14The truck continued along the wrong side of the road for about approximately 20 seconds.

24:18You could quite clearly hear what was going on inside the cab.

24:23And you hear a couple of expletives just before the impact, which is obviously from the driver.

24:37Significantly what you don't hear is him suffering a coughing fit.

24:43I've listened to the recording and there's no coughing leading up to the collision.

24:50I don't know how because I was coughing.

24:52Had there been any sort of even the slightest cough and a coughing fit, you would have been able to hear it.

25:08But he certainly didn't help his cause by lying essentially, sticking to this version of events which he knew wasn't true.

25:23The lorry driver maintained his story, but chose to plead guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

25:31He was jailed for 20 weeks.

25:35You can't hide.

25:38It's all there in pictures.

25:41And then sometimes as we know in this case audio as well.

25:46The injured driver said he felt compassion for a man in the same profession.

25:55After all he'd been through, he was very forgiving.

25:59You know, he was still concerned that the other driver was okay for his family and concerned that he'd been locked up.

26:06He even gave interviews about how grateful he was to have survived the crash.

26:11He expressed his gratitude for the emergency services and the way he was dealt with.

26:17So it goes to show the mark of the man really.

26:24As injured as the gentleman was, he appeared to be making a good, thankfully a good recovery.

26:30And then in the blink of an eye, it ended tragically.

26:39Following the day of that interview with the local media, he tragically collapsed at home and died.

26:46Investigations found that his death was due to complications caused by his injuries.

27:07The Polish driver served his prison sentence and was deported.

27:10Consideration was given for him to be charged with more serious offences of causing the death.

27:21Ultimately, a decision was made that no further action would be taken.

27:32Being a professional lorry driver, you set yourself up as being one of the best drivers on the road.

27:37But we know he's driven for at least 20 seconds on the wrong side of the road.

27:46Being a driver of his standard, he should not succumb to that type of distraction.

27:56It's a significant lapse of concentration.

27:59And you had the other driver doing a job he loved.

28:04Doing a job well.

28:09And ultimately, it's tragic the way it's turned out.

28:12to become the other driver and a death.

28:13To be continued, it's tragic the way it's turned out.

28:14To be continued...

28:15To be continued...

28:16To be continued...

28:17To be continued...

28:18To be continued...

28:19To be continued...

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