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Traffic Cops S12E24 (Jan 27 2024)
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00:01Scott straight through the red line.
00:04He's got damage, David.
00:05Don't do that!
00:06Stay still!
00:08Derbyshire traffic cops.
00:10It does have warning markers for potential firearms.
00:15Don't hold it! You under arrest.
00:16Intent supply class.
00:17It took.
00:19Police a thousand square miles.
00:23It's a crash, crash.
00:25You got any other injury other than your head?
00:27With some of the UK's most dangerous roads.
00:30Oh, no one's been killed out of this.
00:32I don't know.
00:33Do you know how fast you were going?
00:34It's scary when stuff like this happens.
00:37In life and death situations.
00:39Get on the ground, you'll be tased!
00:41We've got runners.
00:43Place down.
00:45Yes, yes, successful stink.
00:49Around every corner.
00:51It's a great acting, mate.
00:54There's a new challenge for the traffic cops.
00:57Step out of the vehicle now!
01:00I'm going home.
01:01Stay, Ned!
01:02Stop grabbing me like that!
01:06It's crash, crash, crash!
01:09Coming up...
01:10It's a bit of a mess here, mate.
01:12We're gonna need EMAS's matter of urgency, please.
01:16Bad crashes.
01:18Two children, one in this one and one in this one.
01:21Causing chaos.
01:22Bit of carnage at the minute, but we're working through it.
01:26Hello, mate, you alright?
01:28And distracted drivers.
01:30This is very precarious.
01:33Putting lives on the line.
01:35Just come away from bus just in case it moves.
01:39All the passengers against that fence, please.
01:41It's at fence, please.
01:50Oscar Tango 23, brief on RTC, M1 Northbound.
01:53Each year, Derbyshire emergency services are called to hundreds of crashes.
02:03Oscar Tango 22, we've got a report of a two-vehicle RTC.
02:07Injuries are reported. EMAS are travelling.
02:09If you need your response, an A.
02:10Most are caused by driver error.
02:15RTC near to Burton appears to be an eight-car pilot.
02:19Being a traffic cop, you are gonna see bad things.
02:24You are going to see destruction and, in the worst sense, death.
02:31And I've seen some pretty horrendous scenes.
02:34Traffic units now come out the way, please, for reports of an RTC.
02:39Hero 1, I'm finding units.
02:41One vehicle's overturned, person trapped.
02:44Vehicle details at this time are unknown.
02:46One golf's going, and I'll put all the Zulu units on it.
02:49Received ops unit attending, can you shout out to your call sign?
02:54Fox 2, a 5-3.
02:56Tango 2, 5.
02:58Tango 2, 5.
03:00Tango 2, 5.
03:02Tango 2, 5.
03:04Traffic cop PC Nick Rice is en route to a serious crash
03:08on one of Derby's busiest roads.
03:11Day in, day out, we deal with collisions.
03:14What we do is traffic cops, whether they are serious or minor,
03:19we deal with them.
03:21Sometimes, things can get reported to us
03:23and they're not quite as bad as they sound.
03:26Sometimes, things are worse.
03:29He's gonna need fire as well.
03:31The vehicle's on his side.
03:32It's a pretty dodgy position.
03:34It's not against the driver at all.
03:36You find out what you're dealing with when you arrive on two.
03:38You find out what you're dealing with.
03:39It's not against it.
03:41It's a bit like a new arrival too.
03:42It's not against the driver at all.
03:43It's not against the driver at all.
03:45It's not against the driver's busiest road.
03:46It's not against the driver's busiest road
03:49to get involved, isn't it?
03:50It's a bit like a new arrival too.
03:512-5, I'm a state 6.
04:02Yep, 24.
04:03We've got two in here Nick, there's two children, they're both 1-0, yep, ok.
04:16Yeah and if we need EMAS, it's a matter of urgency please, we've got two people trapped,
04:20one vehicle is partly on its side, it's on top of another vehicle, we've got one casualty
04:25here, a van, yes yes driver of that one, trapped, stand by, the third one is one female in that,
04:33she's not trapped but she is still in the vehicle, an 8-2-5, it's a bit of a mess here mate,
04:40we're going to need two more traffic units if possible, there are local units here.
04:44What's that, my truck don't keep warm, come on.
04:46Where's your Mary?
04:47Good deal, it's Laurie.
04:52Don't worry about your car, it's alright.
04:55Are you going to be able to get home then?
04:58Don't worry about the car, you're out, it's the main thing in church, alright?
05:05There's two children in these two cars that we need to check, one in this one and one in this one.
05:08Yeah, they've been in this car. Some passers-by have rescued two children from the pickup truck.
05:17Came around the corner and we noticed that the barrier was dented and we saw that a car had gone
05:23over so we stopped to see if we could help. There were two adults in the front and two kiddies in
05:28the back, obviously the kids were very very scared so we got the kids out the car and then put them in
05:33their safe warm and dry space and then went back in to see if their grown-ups were okay.
05:41The ultimate priority is life and limb before any investigation.
05:50With not being first on scene, people are already being tended to, so the next priority comes to
05:55safety. Is everything as safe as it can be at that time? And then speaking to people to try and figure
06:01out what's happened and how it's happened. Oh yeah, been better. They should be all right there, mate.
06:10You're in this one, aren't you? What's happened, mate?
06:15He's come over the barrier? Yeah, I'm coming to see you. I can see now, yeah.
06:24Usually, when people are involved in collisions, it's an incident which they're not used to.
06:29The body's natural reaction to an incident is to pump it full of adrenaline and that's got to come
06:36down at some point and that release can affect people in different ways. People are upset. It
06:46comes out in emotions or tears or anger or whatever it is. Do we know where she is?
06:52Ah, she's here. Nick also talks to the driver of a Ford Fiesta caught up in the collision.
07:00Hello. You've got better mornings, haven't you? How are you?
07:04A bit shaken, but I'm all right. Yeah? Are you injured at all? No? Are you able to tell me
07:10briefly what's happened? What do you remember? I was just driving up here and the car just flew over.
07:14Literally, it flew over. I didn't see it lose control, so I didn't have any warning and literally
07:20I saw it take off and I moved. Okay. Have you got any dash cam or anything?
07:25No. No? Okay, no worries. I'll get a few details. Cool.
07:29The Nissan Navara appears to have been travelling from roundabout direction. It's come round up the
07:36bend into Derby and appears to have lost it on the bend. It then gone towards the central reservation,
07:43gone over the central res and into oncoming traffic, so it's a crossover in theory.
07:51Bit of a bit of a crazy one, to be honest, something I've never seen. He's hit this one on
07:55its roof and he's basically landed as is on top of that van. Quite a serious collision. We've got
08:01HeliMed on route and we've also got casualties down there, so it's a bit of carnage at the minute,
08:06but we're working through it. How are we doing? Right, hey mate. I've done a helicopter on it.
08:14Okay, down here. Down there more than likely. They'll work it out when they get here.
08:18Four more DCAs come in and I've got a heart team because I've got lots of resources. Cool, all right.
08:22It's a very stressful situation to be in. There's a lot happening, a lot going off. All emergency
08:28services are on scene and everybody's doing their roles. Medical teams are looking after the patients,
08:37fire crews are making vehicles safe. Obviously we're doing our part, but it is a, it is a hectic
08:43situation to be in. And yeah, it's not a nice thing to be dealing with when there's children involved.
08:50N8, Tango 25. Our heart team has just gone stage six and HeliMed as well. That is confirmed.
08:58Traffic cop Sergeant Adam Shipley arrives on the scene.
09:02That's the female passenger out of this one. There's two in that one. There were children in
09:08that one as well. I've got no details from them at the minute, obviously. They're cutting driver out
09:12now. I think they're a bit concerned about driver. And female from this one, she just a bit shook up,
09:18no injuries. The one behind, the guy sat on the edge there with the head wound. He's out of that.
09:24I've got all his details. I think he's just waiting to be seen by somebody, but obviously the priority
09:29at the minute is these. You realise he was crossed over. Well, I didn't until I started talking to
09:34people. I didn't see all this. Driver is out. Responding to pain. He's on his way to QMC now.
09:45They have strapped him to a spinal board. The driver of the van crushed by the pickup
09:52has escaped without serious injury. So you are. He is incredibly lucky. You should look at the
10:08mechanics of it all. You don't expect when you're just driving along another vehicle to just shoot
10:13across a carriageway and land on your bonnet, do you? I mean, it's credit to how well vehicles are
10:18built nowadays. Something that heavy, coming at speed, lands on your bonnet and you manage to
10:24walk out. It's remarkable, really.
10:31All patients are off to hospital. We've got officers going to hospital to
10:35do procedures with them and speak to them about what's happened. We guard the scene now and what
10:39we do. We've got a collision investigation unit. They're going to take all photographs and map the
10:44area and provide a sketch of an overview of what's happened and how it's led to this. We don't
10:49wholly know what the outcome of the injuries are going to be. So if it is going to be life
10:53happening or changing, we'll need all that information if we're looking at a prosecution going forward.
11:01Crash investigator Mick Street is hoping that some of the information has been recorded
11:06within the Navara itself. There's potential we can download data from the car, from the airbag module,
11:14which will give us five seconds of data from before the airbags have deployed. So that'll potentially
11:20give us speed, position, steering inputs and things like that, whether the seatbelt's been worn.
11:26It's obviously lost it some way up there and potentially been upside down when it's hit the red
11:31fiesta and then rolled back again onto the top of the van. It's likely to be speed. That's not to
11:38say that a defect with the vehicle could cause that, but from experience it's more than likely speed
11:43that's caused it. Quite a few of the parts have got what the bar has dribbled on, haven't they?
11:51It's no keeper. Yeah, I'm wondering if it's a clone to be honest. Examining the truck, Adam and the
12:00crash investigators spot something irregular. On the front of the vehicle you can see basically
12:06it's written in yellow pen, Navara. So those parts have obviously been replaced like a scrap yard
12:12or a breaker's yard, as is the inner of the wheel arch. All in all, it looked like it had a front-end
12:19impact before and the back's had certain parts replaced. So it's going to need a bit more investigation
12:27to make sure it is a genuine vehicle, they're not stolen, they've not basically gone to a chop shop
12:31and, you know, put various parts of stolen ones and damaged ones together to make another vehicle.
12:38According to DVLA records, it's in trade, there's no registered owner for it. With that
12:43and the fact it's got this written on them, we need to look at our investigation.
12:48The vehicle will be forensically examined, and with the driver suffering potentially
12:55life-changing injuries, there will also be a formal investigation.
12:59Yeah.
13:03It's early days, but he's obviously got some questions to answer for that carnage to have
13:08happened, so we just need to get to the bottom of what it is and how it's happened.
13:11Sometimes you're not always going to get the answers that you want. I personally don't feel that
13:22the whole truth will ever come out in this one.
13:25You see how closely it's on that back?
13:39Coming up, professional drivers making mistakes at work.
13:44This lorry is right on the edge. It's twitchy bum time, this one.
13:49All the passengers off the bus.
13:51Putting their lives.
13:52It's not epileptic, nothing like that.
13:54And others at risk.
13:56N.A. Oscar Tango 23.
13:58Ambulance, it's run into a police car.
14:00We've got any traffic units now come out of the way, please, to reports of an RTC on the bridge.
14:21N.A. Q. Relay, there's no more updates or information.
14:24Traffic cop PC Rich Morris is being dispatched to a crash on a busy rural road near the Staffordshire border.
14:33Half one on a Tuesday morning and we've just had a report of a lorry,
14:42which has gone through a bridge over the River Dove.
14:45It's hanging over the edge, driver's trapped.
14:48So, we're gonna go and see what's happening.
14:53Finally, besides, it's a straight bit of road there, so I don't really know what's going on.
15:17Hello, mate, you all right?
15:25N.A. Tango 10.
15:27Yeah, this lorry, front wheels are hanging over into the river, driver is still in the cab.
15:34He's all right, we're talking to him now, but can we get an ETA for fire service, please?
15:40This is, it's very precarious.
15:43You have to question how the hell that's happened.
15:50The driver can't get out of his cab because he's over the water.
15:55The trailer is keeping it from going into the river.
15:59If that cab had gone a little bit further, it would have gone down into the river,
16:05and the trailer would have followed it, and it would have crushed that cab under the water.
16:09And that driver, he'd have drowned in his cab. There's no doubt about that.
16:15I've never quite seen one like that before.
16:21Well, you've done it in style, haven't you?
16:24Yeah, I've got fire service coming out. They've got some right kit. I've got nothing.
16:28I've got some cones in my boot. That's about it, but I don't think they're going to help us at the moment, are they?
16:36NA Tango 1-0.
16:38Just sort of preempting it, we are going to need heavy recovery.
16:42I'm just going to find out if he's loaded or not.
16:45I think he probably will be, because I can hear his chillers running.
16:48What weight you got?
16:49I think the weight is not heavy, it's only salads.
16:52It's just salad.
16:53Just salad.
16:55Yeah, obviously it's a heavy, it's got a full-size trailer on,
17:01it's full of salad stuff, so it's not going to be running at 44,
17:04but it's still obviously going to have significant weight.
17:08Where the river is, the trailer is right on the edge of the banking,
17:12so fire service are going to need to initially secure it,
17:16and then we've got to try and get it dragged out as well.
17:21It's pretty dangerous, to be honest.
17:22If you look right down there, you've got the river dove.
17:25This lorry is right on the edge.
17:29I don't know how it's not gone over, to be honest.
17:32River's quite deep there as well, quite fast flowing,
17:34so it'll be a difficult extraction, this one.
17:40Several fire crews arrived to rescue the driver from his cab.
17:44Yeah, two, four, um, fire state six.
17:49I've got fire service here now, mate.
17:51What they'll do, they'll get this secure, so it can't go off,
17:54and then they'll get you out, all right?
17:56What's your name?
17:59Right.
17:59Hang on, mate.
18:02Did a bit of a tricky position at the moment.
18:04Just tangible.
18:07Nobody else in the cab?
18:07Can you just make sure he stays there?
18:09Yeah, he's not going anywhere.
18:10Yeah, that's fine.
18:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:14Down to the fire service, do their magic now.
18:27You don't see many like this, do you?
18:29You see how close he is on that bank?
18:31I think if it were a full 44-tonne, I reckon that banking would have gone,
18:35and it would have pushed him over.
18:39Driver's got his head in his hands, I'm not surprised.
18:42Yeah, I wouldn't fancy being in his position.
18:43Fire service, we've got to secure it first, get him out.
18:47Then we've got to work out how we're going to extract this vehicle from here.
18:54Traffic cop PC Paul Barker joins Rich.
18:57You're going to have to inform the highways to get a structural engineer out for the bridge as well.
19:02Fire rent agency might need to be told because his fuel tank is right on the edge,
19:09and it might rupture when it's pulled off.
19:11The fire crew secures the truck to prevent it slipping into the river.
19:20Where the back window would be, they're going to open all that back up.
19:24If you like a tin opener, they're going to cut that back open and extract the driver through that.
19:34It's definitely an interesting one.
19:35Logistically, it's difficult and yeah, it's twitchy bum time this one.
19:48You've got plenty of paramedics and ambulance staff if something does go wrong.
19:55It's important when we've got a major incident like this that everybody knows their role.
19:59It's okay, it's alright?
20:02Yeah, bye.
20:22Smashed it, smashed it like that.
20:24Can you hold the driver there now while we sort out his line?
20:34How are you doing?
20:35How are you doing?
20:35How are you doing?
20:36How are you doing?
20:37How are you doing?
20:37How are you doing?
20:38How are you doing?
20:40If you come over here, can you support him on the other side?
20:42Um, duck down under there for us.
20:45Can you support him there?
20:47Can you put him there?
20:48Yeah.
20:48Well, it's an all deal, wasn't it?
20:54Cheers, mate.
20:56Paul needs to establish how the lorry came off the road.
21:00Can you tell me what happened?
21:02Carefully.
21:03Mm-hmm.
21:03The other way.
21:04There mayn't be any mum.
21:05It's obviously dazzled.
21:07Before I knew it, the bend was there and I'm gone.
21:10Alright.
21:10I was just coming down the road.
21:12Dazzled.
21:13Lost sight.
21:14The night before I knew it, the bridge got me and that were it.
21:16A couple of expletives out of my mouth and then I was straight into the wall.
21:20And when it went over the edge, I thought, that's it.
21:23Well, thankfully, I'm here.
21:25Just, when you see nothing and then you're hanging over the edge,
21:29you know there's a drop.
21:30There's got to be.
21:32Looking at it now, I feel as hard just to win the lottery.
21:37That went near the curtains.
21:40I'm going to sit on here for a bit of warm?
21:41Yeah, go and get checked out with them, mate.
21:44We've got a couple of things we need to do with you as well.
21:46Yeah.
21:46But the main thing is, make sure that you're safe and well before we get on.
21:52All your stuff's just there, pal.
21:53Alright.
21:53Was it good?
21:54Did I hear?
21:55Yeah.
21:55What we'll do, mate, obviously, a lot's taken and a lot's happened.
21:59We'll just do just a quick set of checks for you, mate.
22:01Okay.
22:02Just take hold of that two for us.
22:04It's blown zero.
22:05The only thing about the setting, I mean, we stand reported for the Quest
22:08to be considered plus Q2 for careless driving.
22:10You don't have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you don't mention
22:13those and to which later in the court, anything you do say may we do notice.
22:17Have you got any questions?
22:19I just feel lucky to be aligned.
22:20Yeah.
22:21Yeah.
22:24He's gone too fast around the bend, basically, and he's lost it.
22:27It has shook him up, but hopefully he'll learn from it.
22:31He's been reported for careless driving because nobody else has gone over the edge tonight,
22:35so there's not any reason why he shouldn't have negotiated that bend.
22:40The majority of crashes aren't caused by deliberate dangerous driving.
22:45There's always a reason for a collision.
22:47Very rarely is it a mechanical defect.
22:50It's normally somebody not paying attention, their mind's on the holiday they've got booked.
22:55They're thinking about that, and they're not thinking about what they should be doing,
22:59and through just a lapse in concentration, they've ended up in a collision that could change their life.
23:04Yeah, excellent. Thank you all so much.
23:10If you feel like your attention is going, I think you need to be taking a break.
23:13Go into a lay-by services, have a little nap or whatever,
23:18but you definitely shouldn't be driving if your concentration is wandering,
23:21and you need to be switched on all the time. It's just not worth it.
23:26The road will remain closed until the lorries retrieve from the bridge.
23:30We'll get the bridge safe so that it can be used, get the road open again,
23:35because this is a busy road, so it needs to be open again, and it takes as long as it takes.
23:45Coming up...
23:45Pivoting on the front end.
23:47A bus driver losing control.
23:49Nothing looks like driver error on this one.
23:52An ambulance crash.
23:55I think the humbrake's gone on it.
23:56And a high-speed collision.
24:01It's been rear-ended by this one here, who's failed to see it.
24:12We've had a report of an RTC. Ambulance are travelling.
24:22Have we got an Oster Tango unit, please? State 2.
24:25Chesterfield, acknowledge.
24:28So we've got a report of an RTC.
24:30A bus has left the road and gone into a field with 20 passengers on.
24:33Traffic cop PC Craig Dawes has been dispatched to the Chesterfield area to manage the scene.
24:40If you've got a bus in the field, we don't know what state people's in, any injuries.
24:46Who's on the bus? Women, children, elderly, we're just not sure yet.
24:53Crashes with buses are quite rare.
24:55We get little scuffs or clip wing mirrors that get reported,
24:59but to actually go to a proper collision involving a bus is very, very rare.
25:03Two or three, I'm just trying to locate it.
25:05People are going to get thrown around.
25:10So the last thing you want to be doing is going to a crash involving a bus.
25:15Two, three, state six with this bus now.
25:21Oh, it's just down there.
25:27There's just one in here. Yep.
25:28Right on four.
25:29Local police have arrived ahead of Craig.
25:33Is she diabetic or anything like that?
25:36No.
25:37She's not epileptic, nothing like that.
25:41LA from two, three. We've got one injured so far.
25:45All the passengers are off. We will need fire just to secure it.
25:49Just come away from bus for us, just in case anything happens or it moves.
25:54The power and everything's cut off, is it, the bus?
25:58Fuel and everything's gone.
25:59All the passengers of the bus.
26:02Can I get all the passengers against that fence so we know who's on it, please?
26:07Yeah, we call fire.
26:10Single-decker.
26:12Everything's been cut off.
26:15So there's nothing leaking and it's actually gone through an edge,
26:18but it's pivoted on the front end with its back end.
26:20It does look stable, but I want it double-checked.
26:24My first thoughts is when I arrive is, you know, obviously buses don't have seat belts,
26:29so I'm going to have quite a few injured people here.
26:31But you've got minor bruising, cuts, abrasions and things like that,
26:35but when you look at the bigger picture, I was lucky that nobody was seriously injured.
26:42The female we've got on the floor, we believe, is more panic and shock rather than any injury.
26:46You've got elderly people, you've got children.
26:51It must have been absolutely terrifying.
26:53Can I just get you just to go back to the fence for us?
26:55I just don't want anything rolling or moving or dropping on.
26:59Yeah, yeah, nice one.
27:01What we need to do after is you go around each individual passenger,
27:04just go and see the details on the body cam.
27:06Yeah.
27:06Don't go writing them down at this point because it'll just take too long.
27:09Addressing phone number.
27:09Yeah, we've got loads of all cops.
27:11Yeah, yeah, right, no problem.
27:14And Ethan, two, three.
27:15As there's no serious injuries at this point,
27:19can we get heavy recovery rolling, please, for this bus?
27:24And it is going to need a mechanical exam as well.
27:31Are you doing all right?
27:33What we're doing now, we've got fire.
27:35They're going to secure the bus and make sure that's all right.
27:39We're making sure that the road's secure.
27:42And it's just really making sure that nobody walks around.
27:45And make sure that the driver's OK, getting his account and so on.
27:51At the moment, we've got one female that appears to be in shock.
27:55A few walking wounded, but nothing pressing.
27:57As Craig briefs paramedics.
28:02Oh, no.
28:05There's another collision.
28:07And they ask a tango, two, three.
28:10Ambulance has possibly not left their handbrake on,
28:13and it's running to a police car.
28:15Is it on?
28:17Put it into park.
28:18The police car was unattended, and so was the ambulance, unfortunately.
28:23Do you want to reverse it back?
28:25It's rolling.
28:27Is it still rolling, is it?
28:29Yeah.
28:29Is it automatic?
28:30Yeah.
28:31So it should be in park?
28:32Yeah.
28:33It's been right near the top ratchet.
28:35Once you've reversed it back, keep your foot on brake.
28:37Fire are going to put them blocks under.
28:40Then we can test the handbrake as well.
28:42I said it's on the top.
28:43He's like, it's still rolling.
28:44I feel it.
28:48Yeah, it is.
28:49Right up.
28:50It weren't in park.
28:52Put it in, and it's still rolled.
28:53Like, that's rolling now, look, because it's in.
28:55That's with the handbrake on.
28:56So the handbrake's knackered, but once it's in park,
28:59park is holding it.
29:01The handbrake's no good on it.
29:03I'll give you that.
29:03It's right up, and it clicks.
29:09LA from two, three.
29:10The handbrake in the ambulance is defect.
29:14It's all the way up, and it goes past.
29:16When the vehicle is in park, it does hold it.
29:18So I think they've got out quickly, left it in neutral,
29:20put the handbrake on, and obviously it's rolled.
29:24She's turned up.
29:25Doesn't look like they put it in park, which, you know,
29:28you jump it out, you put the handbrake on in a vehicle.
29:33You know, her first priority and thoughts are the patient.
29:36You know, she's come here to treat somebody.
29:38Luckily, it's travelled a short distance,
29:41and ran into the police car.
29:43You know, the last thing we wanted is doing is travelling
29:46a great distance, hitting a member of public,
29:48or, you know, going into the bus and tipping the bus over,
29:50because pretty much where it was aiming,
29:53that would have been what would have happened.
29:56You've just got to have your wits about you all the time
29:58when you're at a scene.
29:59You know, it's not just what you're dealing with,
30:02it's things that's gone off around you.
30:04You know, you've got to constantly be aware of what could happen.
30:10It would knock you off for dangerous driving.
30:13I'm joking.
30:14Do you know what? Honestly, what are we starting with?
30:17Right, we can get back to the original one now.
30:21The woman said it's going down the road,
30:23and it's, like, felt a bump, so I'm just going to have a look.
30:26Just checking the road, see if there's any potholes or anything.
30:29It doesn't look to be anything.
30:36The passenger felt it like a bump, lift up in the air and go,
30:39but I'm thinking that's what it's hit the kerb and done that, so...
30:47The fire service is working to make the bus and surrounding area safe.
30:53Stabilisation-wise, there's not much we can do for it, to be honest.
30:55No.
30:56It is where it is, and brakes on, we'll get rid of fuel,
31:00and if we can, there's an emergency to cut off in the cab.
31:02Yeah, no problem.
31:04What we'll do is just try and keep everybody away,
31:06and then wait for the bus to come.
31:08Everyone's out of the field now.
31:09It's just a bit fit now, really.
31:11Brilliant.
31:12So what I'm going to do is, and everybody that's been seen, spoken to,
31:16and all details gone, once they've gone, they can go.
31:18Just get them on the log, and then we'll keep the driver.
31:21The driver's blown zero.
31:23I do believe that there will be footage, dash cam and stuff on the bus.
31:27Yeah.
31:27That's my next thing.
31:28Thanks a lot for that.
31:33Mate, you've got dash cam footage on your buses.
31:35Yeah, yeah, they're all open to the air.
31:36It's all that, so we'll keep that.
31:38So, what's happening?
31:40So, it's a bit of a dodgy corner.
31:42Yeah.
31:43And I came down here.
31:45Yeah.
31:46And potholes everywhere.
31:49As I just came around here, I must have took it a bit too early,
31:51coming around the bend, way too early.
31:54And it's just hit the curb, and that's...
31:57Okay.
31:57So you've just poor maneuverability then, really?
32:01Is that what you're saying on it?
32:01Yeah, yeah.
32:02Okay, no problem.
32:05This one's quite unique, the crash,
32:07because it's on a pretty straight bit of road.
32:10You know, nobody's run out, not to swerve.
32:12They're not traveling at a high speed.
32:14So it's very, very strange at first.
32:19Craig and his colleagues hope dash cam footage
32:22will shed light on what went wrong.
32:23It'll turn right in a minute.
32:31It's been burnt.
32:38It's all right.
32:43Leading up to it, he just seemed to be rocking a bit, wasn't he?
32:46His head seems to...
32:47I thought you were checking it very soon.
32:49Yeah, I thought you were looking up, Ty.
32:51I thought you were just checking it very soon.
32:52I've been quite observing.
32:53Yeah, I did, yeah.
32:54Yeah, he's looking around again.
32:58Looking around again.
33:02He's looked, he's looked, he's looked proper left when he does it.
33:11It's weird, isn't it?
33:11That could have been a lot worse.
33:24They've done...
33:24The passengers have done really well, to be fair, haven't they?
33:26That was a double factor.
33:27It's over.
33:30Very, very strange.
33:31Straight away, it definitely looks like it's, er...
33:33It's driver error on this one.
33:35I'm just going to report you now, driving a motor vehicle, without due care attention.
33:40Yeah.
33:41So you don't have to say anything, but it may help me defense you're not mentioned now,
33:43something to say, trying to call.
33:45If they do say, may abuse and evidence.
33:46Yeah.
33:47Due care is the most form of prosecution we...
33:50Yeah.
33:50...we deal with.
33:51Because you have dangerous thing, you have due care.
33:53It's fell below a competent driver, as you've made the mistake, and you've got into there.
33:57So don't worry about it.
33:58Yeah.
33:58You'll get a letter through the post.
34:01Yeah.
34:02And we'll do that all right.
34:05The driver potentially faces a fine of up to £5,000.
34:10Nine points on his license, or a total ban.
34:14Nobody sets out to cause a collision.
34:16You know, it's normally circumstances have unfolded, and that's what's caused it.
34:21You know, it could be just a lack of concentration.
34:25We've also got a duty of care to the driver as well.
34:28We've got to show that bit of empathy.
34:30Just travelling that road every day, and he's been involved in a serious crash.
34:34You know, and as far as he's concerned, his world's just ended.
34:38We've got two walking wounded that's going to go to Chesfield for a checkup.
34:44I think it's more bruising and shock.
34:46We're going to get it forensically recovered just to make sure that there's no
34:50defect issues or any negation of that.
34:52There's been some very, very, very lucky passengers on there.
34:55And, you know, it's thankfully nobody's seriously injured.
35:00There's nothing loose.
35:01That's okay to use tonight.
35:03Crackin'.
35:03And obviously we've got the ambulance versus police car crash to sort out,
35:08which I think the driver of the ambulance is embarrassed.
35:13But, you know, these things happen.
35:15You know, it just shows you couldn't write what we do.
35:18You know, you're at a bus crash and then you have an ambulance roll into a police car.
35:22There's never a door moment being a traffic officer and that's why I enjoy the job.
35:27It's just what it is.
35:31They like us, aren't they? They're driving all the time.
35:34You know, he's not intentionally driven recklessly.
35:37He just made that one misjudgment and put it through the edge.
35:40Coming up.
35:45We've come across this, uh, RTC.
35:48A momentary lapse of concentration.
35:51There's nothing left at the back.
35:53Causes a major collision.
35:55Possibly looking at a faithful.
35:56The call originally did come from ambulance.
36:16Injuries at this time are unknown.
36:21Two, three lighting clear.
36:22Craig Dawes is travelling to a crash on a dual carriageway running through West Derby.
36:30We're on route to a reported broken down vehicle in A38 northbound.
36:35But since we've had the call for the broken down,
36:37it appears that a vehicle's now collided with the back of it.
36:41Possibly, you know, debris all over the place.
36:44So we need to obviously get there as quick as possible
36:48and make sure that we can, you know, we can safeguard everybody there.
36:51It's on an unlit stretch of the A38.
36:55So if, you know, there's no hard shoulders or anything.
36:58So it's going to drop into a live lane.
36:59How you doing, you all right?
37:16Yeah.
37:18We've come across this RTC white vehicle.
37:22Broken down.
37:23It's broken down.
37:24Others have got it back.
37:24Who's the driver of the one that's been hit?
37:27BMW.
37:28You're the BMW driver.
37:29Okay.
37:30No problem.
37:30You got your driving license on here.
37:33It's all right.
37:33Don't worry.
37:34You've not done anything wrong.
37:35You're the white one.
37:36Sorry.
37:36Who's the driver of this black one here?
37:37He's in the back of the ambulance.
37:39Is he brilliant?
37:40Let me just get recovery rolling.
37:42And hey, can I have recovery for two vehicles, please?
37:46I can't see.
37:46There's nothing left at the back end of this one.
37:48Back with me.
37:50That's going to want a full lift as well, please.
37:52That's just stuck on the barrier.
37:56And let highways know there's barrier damage as well.
38:01It's three times more dangerous to break down in a live lane than on an emergency hard shoulder.
38:08So basically what's happened is the white vehicle's been broken down.
38:13Thankfully, they've had the sense to get out.
38:17And then it's been rear-ended by this one here who's failed to see it.
38:20But if you look at the back of the white one, it's said there's nothing left at the back.
38:24You know, if that had been somebody in the back of that, we would have possibly been looking at a fatal.
38:31Is the driver okay of this one?
38:33I'm feeling a bit of pain in this chest.
38:35Right.
38:36I think you can wear the airbag.
38:37Yeah, yeah.
38:38But the fact that he's hit that car at 65 centimetres per hour, I'm going to take him up to RDA.
38:43Yeah, I'll just get some details from him.
38:49Can I come in here?
38:52Dog's in here and all.
38:53I can't leave it outside.
38:54Hey, it's dog all right.
38:55Are you all right?
38:56Hey?
38:57Oh, I bet that made you frightened, didn't it?
39:01Hey?
39:03Okay, mate, what's happened?
39:04Uh, well, coming back home.
39:09I think I overtook something and then pulled back in.
39:13I didn't see it worse taking a car.
39:15Luckily, the girl ain't inside.
39:17No, well, she's, you know, she's had the common sense to, uh, to get out, which is great.
39:23Now, are you?
39:23You all right?
39:24Obviously, I'm going to be a little bit short.
39:27Yeah, well, it could have been a lot worse, couldn't it, at that speed?
39:30I think I know it's 65.
39:31Yeah, well, hey.
39:33Do you need to go and get checked up as well?
39:37I think she worked strapped, in fact.
39:39Oh, I see.
39:39Hey, do you know what?
39:40That's one good thing, then, that you take it serious as well,
39:43because, obviously, if you hadn't have been strapped in, she could have been there.
39:45Yeah, she did apply, yeah?
39:47Yeah.
39:49Over a third of all UK collisions are caused
39:51when drivers don't see other vehicles when changing lanes.
39:55Nobody sets out to cause a collision.
39:58Years ago, it used to be called road traffic accidents,
40:00but we now cause them collisions because, through time,
40:03it's been established that it's somebody's mistake that causes them.
40:08If you pay attention and, you know, drive to how you should do,
40:11then, you know, most collisions are avoidable.
40:13Have you got somebody coming to collect you, you say?
40:16They're literally about to.
40:19You need a statement.
40:20My car was the one that was parked.
40:22Listen, it's obviously, it's his fault,
40:26but it's one of them unfortunate things where he's pulled back in,
40:29he's not expecting a parked car, traveling at 60, it's unlit, you know, and he's...
40:33No, the road's unlit, the road's unlit.
40:38You're totally faultless, you know, at least you've done the right thing by getting out of the car
40:47and not sitting in it, because obviously it could have been a different story.
40:51I bet it made a bang when it hit it, didn't it?
40:53Yeah, it was, my car was here.
40:55Yeah, all we have to say is thankfully nobody's injured, that's what, that's all we say.
40:59Are you okay?
41:00Yeah, he's fine, obviously, he's got a little bit shook up where the airbags have been activated,
41:04dog's fine, metal can be replaced, obviously, if humans can't.
41:08As you can see, it's got massive front impact damage, airbags have been deployed,
41:17but do you know what?
41:18People going about securing the children in the car,
41:21but nobody really thinks about securing the pets, fortunately.
41:24The gentleman of this vehicle, you know, he's got a proper harness and lead for the dog,
41:30whereas if he hadn't have done, probably gone through the gap,
41:33straight to the windscreen at 60 mile an hour.
41:38It's strange, you know, you don't realise it's happened until it's over, you know.
41:45Accidents happen, so we say, well, you know, I think they're going to happen to you, do you?
41:53We're going to have to put a full closure on now on the A38,
41:57while we get these vehicles recovered.
41:59It's going to put a bit of disruption, but, you know, when it's dark like this,
42:02we need a safe working environment, so the only way to do that is put a full closure on.
42:08Both cars are completely totaled, which you expect when they're in a 70 mile an hour impact.
42:15Just the hazards of driving, always pay attention.
42:23Every time a driver enters a car, starts that engine and sets off on their journey,
42:27they're responsible for their actions, and if they drive without paying attention,
42:32they unfortunately do take the consequences. And sometimes, you know, that is prison.
42:38In an ideal world, we'd all like to say people concentrate and nothing would happen, but in reality,
42:44people make mistakes. Unfortunately, one silly mistake can change your life forever.
42:49The driver of the Navara truck remains in hospital in a critical condition.
43:07There's two children need to check. One in this one and one in this one.
43:11The female passenger is recuperating out of hospital, and the two children have made full recoveries.
43:16The Nissan Navara appears to have lost it on the bend, gone over the central res,
43:21and into oncoming traffic.
43:23No further action was taken by police in relation to the accident.
43:38Twitty bum time, this one.
43:41The truck driver, who jackknifed on a bridge, was summoned to court for careless driving
43:47and completed a driver awareness course.
43:52No further action was taken against him.
43:56All the passengers come away from bus just in case it moves.
44:00In the case of the crashed bus, the driver was prosecuted for driving without due care and
44:06detention. Definitely looks like driver error on this one.
44:10And received a £500 fine and five points on his license.
44:15No further action was taken with regards to the ambulance.
44:22He's been rear-ended by this one here. He's failed to see it.
44:26I overtook some wind and then the wind pulled back in. I didn't see it was taking a car.
44:32And no action was taken against the driver, who crashed into a broken down car in a live lane.
44:38There's nothing left of the back. You know, if that had been somebody in the back of that,
44:42we would have possibly been looking at a vehicle.
44:57It has never been in the back of that.
44:58It's dangerous to be, so you wouldn't have taken은 off the plane.
44:59It's just a number of째ars, things like that.
45:02I'm going to place it.
45:03And so we get all of the connected and the drive to the car.
45:04We'll be looking at a vehicle.
45:05Keep in mind for that.
45:06And so I will be looking at the vehicle to be by the Camel.
45:06You know, I'll be left.
45:07And as soon as I SCOTT watched the vehicle, we will say the vehicle.
45:08It's so important that the vehicle might be trained.
45:10It's good that the vehicle is going to be to be the vehicle that I do.
45:11You know, when I can get the vehicle.
45:12You know, I can drive the vehicle and we can get the vehicle.
45:14So I've got this vehicle using the vehicle.