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00:00Every serious incident on the road requires forensic examination.
00:08We've got to start asking the question, why is this happening?
00:12Pedestrian's been struck in the cold off area of the steel carriageway.
00:15The car is filled for stop.
00:17And inside the cordons, dedicated officers take on this challenge.
00:22Clearly, I don't think this came out of the factory sounding like that.
00:26This person's lost their life for whatever reason, we'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.
00:42To 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, so 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.
00:58You've got to use the driver's seat.
01:00You can't be introduced to the car.
01:01It's moving towards the driver's seat too.
01:02You can't be released.
01:03In the car.
01:04I'm on the drive.
01:05It's moving towards the car.
01:07It's moving towards the car.
01:08It has to be in the car.
01:10It's moving towards the car.
01:11514, can I just pass you the driver's details, please?
01:17Yes, thank you.
01:18What looks like has happened is a male's pulled into the yard,
01:21coming to work, and it looks like there's a female
01:24hit by the car.
01:25Oh, thank you, thank you.
01:27Come on in a second.
01:29Have a sit by here, mate.
01:31We'll do a breath procedure, and we'll go from there, all right?
01:34The driver of a black Ford Mondeo is now under arrest.
01:45His car has struck a 34-year-old woman
01:48who was riding an electric scooter.
01:53It was an ambulance that we were here first.
01:55Ambulance.
01:55Our RV was here first.
01:59So she's been coming from this direction,
02:02down this section of road
02:04at the same time as the Mondeo's been coming this way.
02:07As she's gone past the site entrance just up ahead,
02:11he's turned in for whatever reason,
02:13doesn't appear to have seen her.
02:18This is the state that the scooter's ended up in.
02:22That's obviously the sort of footplate
02:25and the connecting parts of it.
02:32So we've got the handlebars there.
02:35Oh, OK, there we go.
02:36That's the headlight sort of built into the e-scooter.
02:41The injured woman had been on her way to work.
02:46It could well be.
02:47Yeah, it could be a protein shake.
02:49She's got her wallet in here as well, just so we know.
02:53She was treated by paramedics on the roadside.
02:56So we've had an update from the hospital.
02:59Yeah.
02:59It's life-changing injuries to her right leg.
03:04She has got a bump on her head.
03:05Didn't have a helmet on, no.
03:07Doesn't appear she had any protective equipment on at all.
03:11With debris scattered across this scene,
03:14it's starting to reveal how the car and rider made contact.
03:18Obviously, we've got our piece of missing number plate,
03:22which is over in the scene over there.
03:24So this would be the first point at which she impacted the car.
03:29So her leg's been on the scooter,
03:32so probably a little bit higher than my foot on the floor,
03:35but essentially here.
03:37Her leg has taken the full force of the car hitting her.
03:40So that's caused her to lean over onto the car.
03:46This dent here will be her hip.
03:49And then you can see cleaning marks coming up here.
03:53So indicating she slid up the bonnet
03:56and then impacted the windscreen.
04:03The makeup's come off in the glass.
04:07So that tells me that this is likely to be
04:11a strike from her face and head.
04:16And she's continued to travel
04:18sort of over the top of the car.
04:22Towards the end of coming over the car,
04:24we've got a cleaning mark which comes down
04:26to this corner of the rear windscreen.
04:30And the impact on that's caused the windscreen to smash
04:33and then she'll have come off the back of the car.
04:37The damage is a clear indication of the forces involved.
04:46Now Kath wants to know where both vehicles were on the road
04:49at the time they collided.
04:51So we've got this mark here.
04:58We can see in the dirt and grit
05:01something hard metallic has been pushed down into the road surface.
05:06So this is quite a heavily salted, gritted piece of road.
05:11You'd expect that if it happened last night or yesterday,
05:14there would be a layer of grit over the top of it.
05:17So that is fresh.
05:18That's happened this morning.
05:21And it heads...
05:22It's in the right place
05:23and it's heading in the direction of our scooter.
05:32That is my point of impact
05:34between the vehicle and the scooter.
05:37And there's more to indicate how this collision has unfolded.
05:44If you look at the road surface,
05:46there's a lot of fresh scratches in this area,
05:49which is made by all of these little bits and pieces
05:53being pushed along the road.
05:55So we can see a whole series of them leading that way,
05:58which shows us the direction that the scooter rider's gone.
06:00This scuff here was produced
06:16as the tyre was dragged across the road surface,
06:19which is likely to be at marker three.
06:23So we've got this line going through here.
06:26So that front wheel's just been pushed into the road surface
06:29and dragged along it.
06:35But there's now a question over the distance
06:37between the point of impact
06:39and where the car has come to rest.
06:42Because you'd like to think
06:43once you've struck something in the road,
06:45you were going to slam on the brakes.
06:49Yeah, you'd think so.
06:51Doesn't look like there's any brake marks, does it?
06:53Nothing that I can see.
06:55Looking at the lack of marks on the road,
06:57I don't think that the position of the car
06:59in relation to the scooter is any indication of speed.
07:02I think he's just rolled here after the collision.
07:07The man at the wheel told police
07:09that he just didn't see the scooter rider.
07:12As he turned into the yard,
07:14he only heard the impact
07:16and his windscreen shattered.
07:18But the evidence still needs to be examined
07:23from all available angles.
07:28The security office just over there
07:32have got a CCTV camera on the pole
07:35just round there.
07:37And this is the CCTV from that.
07:40I'm trying to look.
07:41She's got a light on
07:52and she's going to make her way down
07:54to the point of collision about here.
07:58You could see that bright headlight coming along
08:00in a nice straight line.
08:03Nice and controlled speed.
08:05She makes progress towards the scene.
08:08But another camera is also recording
08:12as the car driver approaches.
08:16So you see his headlights reflected in this car first.
08:20There they are.
08:22And then he'll come along here.
08:24Starts braking.
08:30As he comes into the shot there,
08:33you can see the centre line of the road
08:35and he's already starting to cut across it.
08:41His turning's here.
08:43He's already across onto the offside of the road
08:45at that point.
08:48You can see the brake lights are illuminated.
08:51But it doesn't look like he's braking harshly.
08:55He's just sort of gradually slowing down
08:57as he moves into the site.
08:59And just at this point,
09:01you see her do a little swerve.
09:02She's now leaning away from the car slightly.
09:11I think at that point,
09:12she's probably realised what's going to happen.
09:14While the footage has captured the collision,
09:23it's now raising further questions.
09:26Looking at that CCTV as it is,
09:30that light appears to be incredibly bright.
09:35It was about 20 minutes before dawn.
09:39It was not light yet,
09:42and yet the scene appears to be quite well illuminated,
09:44even into the background there.
09:48I think everyone who saw it was quite surprised
09:51at how obvious we thought the e-scooter rider would be,
09:56and that the collision actually took place.
09:59But inquiries don't stop there.
10:03I want to see it from the driver's point of view.
10:06That might well be very, very different
10:08to the point of view of a CCTV camera,
10:10and I think, to be fair to all parties,
10:12I need to make sure that what I'm seeing is,
10:15as was seen by the people there at the time.
10:17With the driver facing potentially serious charges,
10:23the team have gone back to the scene of the crash
10:27to carry out a reconstruction.
10:36The CCTV camera that was recorded the collision
10:39is sort of way up there on a pole,
10:41and that's obviously a very different angle
10:43to the angle that the driver would have seen it.
10:45The plan is, we'll start at point of impact
10:49and work our way back.
10:51I spent a little bit of time working out the maths,
10:54working out where the car and the e-scooter
10:57would have been relative to each other
10:59on the approach to the point of impact.
11:02We're going to reposition them both at various points,
11:05take photographs,
11:07which will show us whether or not
11:10the e-scooter rider would have been easily visible.
11:13But the position of each vehicle
11:16isn't the only detail that's been carefully planned.
11:20It's important to do the reconstruction
11:23at the equivalent time,
11:24not the same time of day,
11:25but the equivalent time,
11:26so when the sun's in the same position.
11:29This happened in civil twilight,
11:31so that's when the sun is between minus six degrees,
11:34so below the horizon,
11:36and the point that we've got sunrise.
11:37It is 5.46,
11:43so we've got half an hour
11:45until hopefully the light should be right to get going.
11:52Getting the lighting exactly right is really key,
11:56particularly when we're looking at people's viewpoints,
11:58so that we're producing something
12:00that's representative of what happened prior to the collision.
12:04And as the team take up their positions,
12:07the pressure is on.
12:10In civil twilight,
12:11the light is changing really rapidly.
12:14I wanted to get the whole thing done
12:15within 15 minutes, if I could.
12:17So that's point of impact,
12:28so now if we move it back...
12:32So the camera was inside the car,
12:34and we moved the car and the e-scooter back
12:38from the point of impact.
12:40It was a huge amount of work in this case.
12:53But it's absolutely worth it
12:54to make sure that the outcome is fair
12:56for everyone involved.
13:02And there's good.
13:07Next!
13:10You've gone behind the cars now,
13:13and those cars were there.
13:15This whole row was full at the time of the collision.
13:20Yeah.
13:25Yeah.
13:26Right, done.
13:38And now analysis.
13:40So that's from 80 metres.
13:43The car there is 80 metres from the point of impact,
13:46and then it's going to be 10 metre increments from there.
13:50So I chose 80 because
13:51that...
13:53I was fairly confident
13:54that she wouldn't actually be in view at all at 80.
13:57Yeah.
13:58And she isn't.
14:00I suppose the issues we've got here,
14:02we've got this row of bollards,
14:03we've got a couple of lampposts,
14:06we've got the signs as well,
14:08and that's where our e-scooter rider's going to appear from.
14:13So that's from 70 metres.
14:15You can see the e-scooter, you can see there,
14:20we know that that's the e-scooter rider behind that lamppost.
14:26But if you didn't know that,
14:27I think that would be really difficult to pick out.
14:29Yeah, 100%.
14:30Confused with all of this sort of reflective road signage,
14:34all of these bollards,
14:35so to ask a driver in a dynamic situation
14:38at that point
14:39to pick out that there's an e-scooter there
14:41I think would be almost impossible.
14:45That's 60.
14:48That's 50.
14:49So I think still quite visually grouped with all of this.
14:54It would have been a really gradual,
14:55slow movement out to that position.
15:00A person on an e-scooter is very static.
15:03You don't have any of the biological movement
15:05that you would associate with somebody walking
15:06or somebody cycling.
15:09And that would have been coming really steadily along the road.
15:14So this is from 40 metres.
15:16I think at that point
15:17they start to become a little bit more distinct
15:20from the road furniture.
15:23It's a nice dark background now as well, isn't it?
15:25And that's giving really good contrast with this jacket,
15:28but again, if that jacket is more reflective
15:31than the jacket that she was wearing at the time,
15:33then actually she would be less visible than that.
15:38And this would also have implications
15:40for the visibility of the scooter's headlight.
15:44You actually lose the light as well, don't you,
15:46because of the reflective jacket.
15:49Yeah.
15:49All you can see is that you can't actually see
15:51the actual light itself.
15:53No.
15:54It would be very hard to notice
15:56that it's getting closer to you.
15:58But they must consider more
16:00than just what the driver might have been able to see.
16:03Do you think from this point
16:04they're now just concentrating on where they're going?
16:07Yeah, potentially.
16:08I mean, if they haven't noticed by that point,
16:10they've kind of visually gone,
16:13well, I think that bit of the road's clear.
16:16So I'm just going in through that gate.
16:19If he's travelled that route
16:20at the same time of day for a few weeks,
16:22he probably doesn't expect much to be coming along it.
16:26And that would feed into his expectation
16:28of what he's going to see,
16:30his expectation of what he's going to have to react to.
16:32Kath has calculated
16:36that the driver had between 2.9 and 4.1 seconds
16:40to see and react to the oncoming e-scooter.
16:51But the rider should not have been on the road.
16:56On the approach to the collision,
16:58she was riding that illegally.
17:02Obviously, that doesn't absolve the driver
17:04from any responsibility in hitting her.
17:08Part of the duty of driving
17:11is a duty of care to all other road users.
17:14The driver blamed a momentary lapse in concentration.
17:19He admitted driving without due care and attention
17:22and was fined £360.
17:27Perceiving what was in front of him
17:28would have been very difficult.
17:32That's a hugely different perspective
17:35than what we saw from the CCTV.
17:39Which is why it's really important
17:40to do that work to get those answers.
17:42To report an accident with a motorhead
17:52in the area of Regland.
17:55We don't have any voice connery with a motorhead.
17:56Nobody is answering.
17:57We need to request police and ambulance.
17:58We don't have any voice connery with a motorhead.
17:59Nobody is answering.
18:00We need to request police and ambulance.
18:03As we're approaching now, you can actually see
18:06the way the motorcycle has ended up post-collision.
18:10There's a male and female on it.
18:11There's a pillion passenger as well as a rider.
18:13Both have been seriously injured.
18:16and are now on their way to hospital.
18:19Because of the curvature of this road,
18:20I've been here several times,
18:20because of the curvature of this road,
18:21I've been here several times,
18:22because of the curvature of this road.
18:23Different severity's,
18:24that's a mercÒ£ Almas,
18:25my牛肉.
18:28As we approach now,
18:29you can actually see the way the motorcycle
18:31has ended up post-collision.
18:36As we approach now you can
18:37actually see the way the motorcycle
18:38has ended up post-collision.
18:38There's a male and female on it.
18:40There's a pillion passenger as well as a rider.
18:46Both have been seriously injured
18:49and are now on their way to hospital.
18:50Because of the curvature of this road,
18:51I've been here several times with collisions,
18:53marks, you know, all the way around the box section of Armco.
18:58So, yeah, you've got to try and decipher what's old, what's new with this collision.
19:03As a motorcycle rider himself...
19:07Right, here we go.
19:08..he's now trying to understand how the bike has travelled through this scene.
19:13So there's nothing obvious at the moment of why they've lost control.
19:17They were navigating the tight bend of this slip road
19:21to join the dual carriageway.
19:23We've got plastic on there.
19:27You know, you can see there.
19:31We've got scuffing.
19:34We've got this big tyre mark.
19:36That's not a motorcycle tyre, that's a car, HEV.
19:40The motorcycle hasn't caused that damage.
19:42That's old damage.
19:49As we come here then, I can see a gravel mark, a mark going through the gravel.
19:53Which is a single narrow tyre mark, which is indicating to me it's a motorcycle tyre.
19:58So, this here, this is the start of it there.
20:02You see it going through.
20:06Extends through.
20:08Onto the chamfered kerb.
20:10And you're getting these striations.
20:14So, it's what it's indicating to me that the wheels on the motorcycle are still rotating.
20:19The rider may be braking.
20:22But it's certainly not emergency braking.
20:24And it's going through all the way to that point there where you've got markings appearing now on the box barrier.
20:31That's fresh.
20:35But they reveal more than just where the bike has made contact.
20:40Let's move this section of Armco.
20:43The force on it has moved it.
20:44But what's significant there?
20:48And we've got this as a tyre mark.
20:49But we've got this mark here.
20:50This is a fresh mark.
20:53It's quite wide.
20:54If you think of the motorcycle stood up there and it's starting to come in.
20:57And it's starting to lose it on the, obviously, the bend, the left-hand bend.
21:04This is probably the rider getting his foot down.
21:09So, probably the bike is now snaking a bit because the rider's trying to fight it.
21:14Again, we've got fresh debris here.
21:16Maybe clothing off the rider.
21:23You've got this mark here, which is probably his right foot coming down.
21:27Because the wheels are now out that far.
21:30So, he's got his right foot down.
21:32So, maybe the bike's going this way.
21:35And he's fought it that way and gone back in.
21:40So, actually, he treated him here.
21:44The bike's proceeded on his own until he's come to the point of rest.
21:50The evidence is clearly revealing the rider's actions.
21:54But there was also a woman travelling on the back of the bike.
21:59We know the pillion passenger was treated on the other side of the carriageway.
22:04So, we know at some point she's separated from the bike.
22:08It's actually breached the barrier.
22:10And she's landed on this side of the carriageway.
22:13But it's at what point she did it.
22:14And we've got this abrasive mark, which is fresh.
22:25So, I'm now looking on the barriers.
22:26Any other evidence?
22:28So, if something had dragged over here, you would expect something gathering there.
22:31But nothing, all I can see is like a shade of blue coming through, extends through.
22:41That's her helmet.
22:43So, at some point, her helmet has come into contact with the road surface.
22:47I'm surprised I haven't seen any fibres, but if she's wearing black, they'll be hard to see.
22:58So, whether at this point, it's just her head in connection with the road surface until she comes to a point of rest here.
23:03The 45-year-old woman and 47-year-old man were on a biking tour from Sweden and were just six days into their trip.
23:26Nice bit of kit.
23:271250cc.
23:29You can quite clearly see he's a newish bike.
23:31It's well looked after, it's clean, the chrome is sparkling on it.
23:35The tyre's in very good condition.
23:38At this moment in time, I'm not suspecting a mechanical issue that has caused them to lose control.
23:45But there is something missing from the rear of this bike.
23:51Here's his panier, look.
23:55This is the one that would be associated with the offside of the bike.
23:58And damage to this luggage box could show more about the dynamics of this collision.
24:05If I'm just trying to do a bit of a mechanical fit.
24:10So, you've got these linear marks.
24:12So, this is coming across.
24:14I don't know if you look inside.
24:16You've got the make-up of the bolt system on the barriers.
24:19You can see where they've snagged in and caught.
24:21It's more sledging across the top of the barrier.
24:26So, this is continued from 9 through to 10 to 11.
24:33As the bike is leaning now, that's the way the bike has remained coming through.
24:42In fairness, he's tried to fight control of it all the way.
24:47It's probably between 22 and 23 that he has now come separated from the bike himself.
24:53The wheels are still rotating.
24:55And then, he's actually furrowing through the grass verge of the mud.
25:00So, he's splaying it out.
25:04And this means a possible cause of the collision can now be ruled out.
25:11At no time has the bike gone onto its side.
25:14So, a good indication that, you know, there's no great speed involved here.
25:18It's just gone drastically wrong.
25:20But, the bike detected that it was out of control.
25:26Hello, we are calling from BMW Emergency Center to report an accident.
25:31And activated a key safety feature.
25:34We don't have any voice calling with the motorway.
25:38The motorcycle has sent an automated signal to BMW saying he's been involved in a collision.
25:45With the injured rider failing to respond to the operator's call.
25:50The alarm was raised.
25:53The cleverness of the system is that it's actually given a coordinate of where the bike is in Raglan, in Wales.
26:00It's directed all the emergency service to this location.
26:04I think due to the way the rider reacted to the incident.
26:08With the added weight of the luggage and the pillion passenger.
26:12Quite clearly, he's an experienced rider.
26:14So, just why was their journey cut short in this way?
26:20I did notice that the road service at the time was in very poor condition.
26:26So, as you can see, it's almost like a piece of corrugated metal.
26:29With HGVs, as the vehicles are now tracking around the bend, there's no steering on the rear axle, so the tyres are straight.
26:38But they're actually scrubbing across the road surface, so they cause this corrugation of the road surface.
26:45Certainly, as a motorcyclist, you wouldn't be travelling in lane one because of the poor state of the road.
26:49And, therefore, you'd be in lane two.
26:55But that lane also has its hazards.
26:59As the vehicles are travelling round, anything coming off the road is being pushed out to the outside of the bend.
27:06So, that's why you're getting that formation of gravel and grit.
27:10Over time, it builds up until you've got a depth of it.
27:13Probably the one vehicle you don't want to be on to travel through that debris is a motorcycle.
27:24It's called the edge of debris.
27:28And there's no coming out of there.
27:30To have that amount of potholing and debris on the road surface, and for that to be a sole causation factor of the collision is relatively rare.
27:46While the debris was swept away, it was a longer road to recovery for the bikers themselves.
27:55It could have been a very different outcome.
28:00Due to the technology on the motorcycle, it got help to the people who needed it a lot quicker than if they were trying to describe their location.
28:10The riders were treated for pelvic and leg injuries before returning home to Sweden for further care.
28:17I suppose that the riders, motorcycle users, being involved in that level of collision and sustaining those injuries, probably would never get back on a motorcycle.
28:27But their experience hasn't dented their passion for biking.
28:32It was credit to them that they're back on a bike, and they've continued what they were doing prior to this incident.
28:39For more information, visit www.fema.org
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