What these programmes don't show is them switching on the signs because the traffic is moving too well. I'm convinced they do; think about it, the times you go through maybe be 5 miles of gantries all saying; "report of obstruction" with a 40mph limit. Then suddenly you reach the one that switches you back to 70 and yet... Nothing; diddly squat of any obstruction. Does nobody think to themselves... "Why did they have the signs on for nothing then?"
@@johnbower7452 Possibly because just ahead of you, through all that slowdown, people have dragged/carried/pushed/pulled or otherwise coerced said obstruction off the road? The reason for the slowdown is to make it safe for them to remove it and for you to drive through as though nothing ever happened. I can assure you that, nowhere in the world can anyone ever say that the traffic is moving "too well"!!
Really? You don't drive on the motorway daily do you. These guys are in control of the signs and in charge of shutting down a lane quickly if a car is stranded. They fail on both counts. I have seen many stranded vehicles and the lane not shut down. It should be within 60 seconds. After all it's "a smart motorway" supposedly. I have seen families sitting on the grass. If that have had time to get out and sit on the grass then those ladies in the office have had time to spot it broken down. They also cause a lot of problems by putting the speed limit on 40 then 200 Meters onto 60 back to 70 back to 40 all within a few miles when nothing is an issue ahead. I don't expect you to know this If you don't drive 60 hrs a week on the motorways
On my learners, my driving instructor asked me “how long has that Ute been driving behind you? How long has that car been next to you?” And I couldn’t answer because I never checked. That made me realise how important it is to be aware of not only yourself on the road, but also those around you. I’ve had people swerve infront of me, people merge in with no warning, and now I can just anticipate what other drivers are going to do
If they learned it, most forget that skill five minutes after their exam. I do it consistently as I am very safety aware. I test drive new vehicle systems on the public road throughout the world, so I do about 300k miles a year. On average I have a small fender-bender every 1,5 million miles or 5 years.
So everyone that isn't can swerve into it if something goes wrong and you still end up in an accident, it's more relaxing leaving a big gap for drivers and passengers.
The people stopping traffic have a very dangerous job; it boggles my mind when drivers don't care and just drive through when they are being told to stop. It's fun how they all manage to keep a sense of humor.
Unfortunately in one of the episodes they covered this cases: it's a dangerous job, exacerbated by reckless, hasty non-compliant drivers. In the episode, it's quoted that they have lost officers. But Gracious this has led to severe strict laws for ignorant drivers escaping the stops through the hard shoulder.
As someone who has had to stop traffic, its a joint assessment of safety to stop between the enforcer and driver. I want to expect everyone to stop but some drivers just wont see me or are busy looking at the incident. Its not personal. The enforcers are in this situation almost daily but the driver maybe once in their lifetime so not experienced it or expecting it.
So many of the drivers in this programme are larking about & not paying attention. I'm an accident specialist & no vehicle incident is nice but a motorway incident is horrendous. Big respect to the emergency services that brave clearing the roads for us, they have nerves of steel.
I was at the incident with the bridge, it fell down 100m in front of me. And there was only 1 injury and that was to the motorcyclist and it was only a couple broken ribs, crazy
Exactly, us too. I live near the junction of the M4/M5, main holiday routes to Wales and the South West. We see the parking lot and sometimes the carnage. We stay home having BBQs and picnics.
Same way here in the US. I am glad to stay home and have a BBQ. Traffic is crazy on the 2 main highways and the turnpike here on holidays. If I have to go out I take back streets and shortcuts away from the traffic. We are 35 miles outside Philly but traffic really ramps up (pun intended) as you hit the suburbs.
This is a great example of why I tend to stay off the roads altogether on bank holiday weekends and if I have no alternative, travel in the early hours of the morning. Our road network just can't cope and people's driving and observational skills seem to deteriorate as it gets busier and busier. I don't envy the guys who, in the worst case scenarios, have to scoop up limbs and blood off the road.
I remember the M1 being built and the fogs that rolled down the dry valleys it cut through. There were some enormous tail-enders as motorists suddenly braked in one of these fog banks. There was no safety barrier and no speed limit. When car-style fog warning lamps were hastily installed beside the left-hand lane, many were stolen.
………was at Woolies’ getting groceries’, on a Monday, & check-out lass asked me did I have a nice weekend. When I replied, ‘yes, I did, I flew to Antarctica’, she was flabbergasted. Yep, day flight on QANTAS, 5&half hours’ each way to/from, & 3 hours’ at 10,000 feet, for viewing. Best money I’ve ever spent! It was fantastic, & the camaraderie on board was top-notch. For Dessert after Dinner, on way back, we had ice-cream in the little buckets’, which I’d not had since a kid!
I remember the day the bridge collapsed on the M20! watched it unfold on the cameras at home. Traffic everywhere as west Kent was at a standstill. Had to tell my friend's family to not travel west of Maidstone cause of the chaos. What a day! A Bank Holiday like no other in the south east.
The Highways officers should get the same respect as all other emergency services workers. Most people see them as a pain but if you were working on clearing an accident, you wouldn't want cars speeding past you in the next lane over whilst rubber-necking!
@Connor Dakoz why do they hate them? I don't get it. I'm not going to drone on about "well you should follow the rules" because nobody does but I just don't understand
@archechme every time I'm stuck in one they're all just standing about and work at a snails pace. Got stuck in a jam for 3 hours because someone had bumped into the back of someone else. Everyone was fine, the cars could still even roll on but nope hold up for 3 hours for what essentially should've been 30 minutes.
I was driving about a minute behind the bridge strike - taxiing a passenger from Maidstone to Gatwick, en route to taking up a job on a cruise liner in Spain. Needless to say, we didn't make it that day, although he was able to reschedule, and I took him to Heathrow the next day...
EMILY is correct with her reaction of “ EPIC “. Let alone the spectacular smashing of that bridge the domino effect upon all of those travellers & those connected to them & so on plus those whom can’t now use that bridge & the many staff called out to move its wreckage - incredible .
What I find really gobsmacking is that 01:46 the child has no seat belt on, then even more alarmingly at 05:28 driver is not even looking at the road and that not one of them has a seat belt on, a high speed crash in an old vehicle like that and they're all dead !
My thought as well seeing the child with no seatbelt. I’m so programmed to put my seatbelt on that when having to switch parking spots on the driveway, I automatically put my seatbelt on just to back out onto the street and immediately pull back down the driveway to let a family member get out!
No way, you actually think they are not wearing a seatbelt? Ever heard of a lap belt? The child is 100% wearing one. For the parents it is harder to see, but under their jackets they are also.
At 05:28 that looks like a left hand drive VW motor caravan. Apart from not wearing a seat belt, that vehicle has zero crumple zones. Hit anything at speed and the front of the vehicle would wrap itself around the two front seat occupants probably killing them outright.
The driver not watching the road properly is moving at a snails pace, so am not sure there is much of an issue there. Obviously he shouldn't have his eyes shut like it seems, but as mentioned above it looks like they are barely moving.
I remember that bridge hit well. At the time, I lived localy and worked within a couple of miles of the accident scene. That Saturday, I was rotered to work my first ever night shift and my journey involved crossing the M20 at J7. I thaught that I would have trouble getting to work, but luckly, I was ok. It was bizarre to see a totally deserted carrageway below me as I crossed.
2:18 - you don't drive looking at the vehicle in-front of you, you drive looking at the road ahead. From my perspective here, all of those cars are in the wrong. Very little space in-between them either. Always keep two chevrons distance.
It's absolutely impossible to keep a two chevron distance on the M25 without getting cut up (not to mention there aren't any spacing chevrons) but you can usually manage a one-second gap and just have to pay attention. I find it safest to do about 60 and then you're generally being overtaken rather than closing gaps on slower cars.
@@SerenaBluee Just pick a marker the car in front just went past for reference IE a post or sign then count 2 seconds If it's less than that when you pass the same marker point your too close.THAT is how you figure 2 chevrons in your head for future reference.
I’ve always thought that at half mile intervals the barrier should have a ‘gate’ function, so that for major traffic jams, the gate can be lifted and cars send across onto the other (closed) carriageway to reduce the number of cars queueing.
Most of these "drivers" are on another planet, looking everywhere but the road, inattentive, driving far to close, not reading the road, not looking for an escape route if things go pear shaped, all these accidents are just waiting to happen. What they need to realise, is they in control of a lump of metal thats a killing machine.
@@selina.c I don't know which of the 2 trucks hit it, but if it was the one with the excavator on the back then most likely the arm of the excavator wasn't lowered enough and it hit the bridge. If it was the other truck that hit it first, then I have no idea how as those type of trucks shouldn't be high enough to hit bridges like that.
@Hagar minimum unmarked bridge height is 5 metres which is 16'4¾" just in case you ever drive something that tall. Although some sources say 16´-3˝ (4.95 metres) because they don't always remember to measure after they resurface the road.
When driving, I, always make regular routine checks every few seconds, regarding what is happening on the road ahead of my, directly in front of me and to all sides and always glance up at every bridge right before passing under it. Easy to do when it becomes second nature. Even more so when riding a motorbike. Always pre plan escape routes before they are required. Do this in any country automatically. Ex professional driver of just about anything and everything.
So glad when I lived in that part of the world, holidays were spent on a boat on the rivers. They could be busy but being self contained, it didn't matter.
If you look at the digger which hit the bridge at 07:30 it has it's bucket in a "backfill" position. This was the cause of the accident, its travel height was raised because the bucket was not curled in its "digging" configuration
It's a vintage VW camper so it either has no seatbelts fitted in the rear (not legally required to be fitted to the rear seats on vehicles before 1986) or it has a lap belt which is less obvious. I think I can see a little bit of a black strip on her left hip (right as you look) implying use of a lap belt.
As a bus driver, I’ve seen so many idiots who have no idea that we can’t just stop a bus dead but they still pull out right in front of us or over take us on blind bends! It’s crazy
Much like how some folks imagine HGVs can stop on a dime, ignoring factors like type of cargo and amount of load. Technical capabilities of a vehicle do not apply in every situation.
They are ridiculous. Near me there’s bus stops where the bus has to stop on the actual road and people beep expecting you to overtake but I always wait behind to allow person on bus and then bus can carry on safely.
I used to drive buses myself and like you I've seen the worst from other road users. Had cars race past me at a bus stop and saw many a near miss and a few collisions and had cars try to blame me because I stopped in a bus stop!
I have had a Coach blindsiding me where the driver did not look. I took avoiding action! Proffessional drivers are no different to the idiots around them!
I came off the m25 recently onto the M3 and my car failed in the fast lane with loss of power. My mind instantly thought about rolling into the inside asap (they don’t have hard shoulder on m3 anymore along that stretch). My bmw fail safe is to stop the engine from working and I could not override the handbrake to move the car manually so had no choice but to stand other side of the barrier. Within two minutes the traffic officers were there (thanks to the radar poles locally telling them a vehicle was stranded). Cars were flying past, I can’t imagine what I would have done if stuck in the fast lane or even indeed what may have happened. I was so worried others may crash into my car and it might hurt someone or worse. But even on the inside lane cars were flying past 70/80mph and only just missing my car. It was 10pm, dark and pretty busy, I thank the traffic officers for their speedy work and arrival as well as getting me 200 yards down the road with a tow to the sos lane.
I was wondering what they meant by ‘heatwave’. 27, that’s just an average spring or summer’s day. A heatwave is when the temp is over 35 for more than three days in a row. 27 😂
it's a different kind of heat, the humidity (on top of our infrastructure) makes it unbearable... put me in a different climate at 30+° and i'd be fine!
My daughter lived in London for five years and told me that Parents yell and swear at their kids in public , smoke cigarettes near them or in their houses. She was beyond saddened.
@@flowerpower3618 that is incredibly sad! I'm a smoker myself, my son is 3yo and he's only ever seen me with a cigarette once (because I didn't shut the back door behind me properly and he came outside) I know he must smell it and the chemicals will be on my clothes still but I still think that's better than smoking in the house. As for the swearing and shouting in public, imagine what happens behind closed doors 😪
After driving a moped for about two years now, I've realised how strong my observation skills have gotten. "Drive like everyone else is out to get you", is the advice my Mum said. It just fries my brain how people intentionally play chicken with a lorry, and are shocked when it doesn't go according to plan.
Trucker and biker here, oh and I have a car too. See it all from all angles. Some days I wonder how I still get behind the wheel or on the bike with the sheer volume of stupidity, ignorance, and impatience I see everyday.
Not seen this film yet, but to my knowledge the multiple pile up on the Isle of Sheppey Bridge is one of the worst accidents ever. I think about 70 cars were involved, all because no one refuced their speed when the fog came down.
"I'm excited I'm gonna go get drunk" wow what a nice holiday those kids are gonna have. Who's going to look after them while you're getting smashed? Smh mother of the year 🙄
My ex wife did exactly that and she ruined our one and only holiday to the isle of white in 1996. All she did was shout at the kids and drink . I don't drink and never have . My daughter remembers it well as she was looking forward to it . Sad days .
... lady pillion rider.. I've had three major heart attacks recently.. and felt unwell this morning.. so decided to get on the back of this harley for a blast down the motorway lol
@@srjwari you just came up with a whole story in your head about this woman’s life and you don’t even know her. Also that generalisation about people on benefits is very inaccurate.
Being a motorcyclist helps alot with driving. Always have to be alert and expect people to be behind you, to the side of you and everything. Look far ahead as possible but cant understand how people can have an accident on a motorway or dual carriageway
As an Hgv driver , all i can see not checking mirrors when they change lanes not put the indicator driving to slow on middle lane using mobile phones . etc dailly on m5 im seeing cars accident , m42 . and all the congestion starts
Lesson learned to the silly cow who decided to sit up the side of an HGV!! Never do that because they can’t see you in their blind spot! Either get passed them or stay back!!
I always try to keep left but it's really frustrating how often you get blocked by some wally just sitting on your boot in the middle lane and not just getting past you!!!
Hanging out on the blind side of a semi or lorry is one way to commit suicide. Yes the driver of the truck might be entirely and legally at fault. But you’ll be entirely physically dead. There’s a reason it’s called the blind side.
I know that stretch of the M20 very well, my parents only recently moved from Gillingham which is the next exit off the M20... I'm glad I wasn't heading to visit them that particular Bank Holiday weekend...😅 There's a lovely new footbridge at Teapot Lane now!!
Lukewarm in England is about 12 degrees and you will be complaining you're cold. We climatise to where we live. No idea why people bring this sort of info up. Utterly pointless.
I've come from buses on to National Express coaches West Yorkshire, I'm 25 only just started driving 2 years now and I look forward to my new journey, not met many idiots yet on the motorway but met plenty whilst driving in the city but plenty of traffic and diversions 😃😂 Way I see it we all gotta work together and be patient. Big up these guys and the emergency services 👏🏼 Take care stay safe out there people! ✌🏼👊🏼
@@13191215 He certainly can!!! Hadn’t heard this song. Shazamed it, downloaded it! Love finding new stuff like this. Would love to see these two sing more.
Taking a look at the dropped bridge it's hard to tell if that lorry was actually over-height. Perhaps for that particular route, but in general it did not look to be any larger/taller than a standard trailer. It looked like there as an elevation difference between the outside lanes and the center... did the footbridge cross below standard height in the area the truck was operating?
@@stephenrandall3551 Yes , I think that's right 8:59 The truck with the digger hit the bridge and it came down on the white truck. They don't tell people ! Millions were interested , all they're told is a truck hit a bridge.
You can look up the incident online by searching for "M20 bridge collapse". As others have said it was the lorry in lane 1 (nearest the hard shoulder) which had an overheight excavator on the back that actually hit the bridge and brought it down on the standard height white lorry in the middle lane as it was overtaking.
in the UK we have a different ‘standard’ height for HGV. most of Europe is 4 metres but in the uk the average heights of HGVs is between 4.2 & 4.65 metres
@@cjatruckphotos the problem was that the digger should have been moved on a low loader (that's exactly what they are for) or it should have had its boom extended forwards to reduce its height. The driver had struck the underside of the previous bridge and got out to check his load. He concluded it was ok. He got a 12 month prison sentence which was suspended for two years. He also had to do 200 hours of unpaid community service. Didn't read anything about whether his driving licence was affected.
the general rule of thumb for Americans: right lane (slowest lane) is for under speed limit to +3 mph over, middle lane is for +5mph to +10mph over, and left lane (fastest lane) is +10mph and faster. If you don't move over for someone going 85mph in a 70mph you're rude
Looking at that first shunt at around 2:50 I remember when I was driving down the American east coast to LAX some years back and there was a similar sort of accident … I was starting to sweat because in the UK I would have been there hours. Nope … police rolled up, ascertained everybody was ok, then stopped the traffic and either pushed, drove or pulled every car off the highway and within minutes everybody was on their way again. That would NEVER have happened in the UK.
I remember driving south from Cumbria to reach Liverpool airport. Getting onto the southbound motorway luckily a holdup was just opening up. Crossing onto the motorway, traffic in the northbound direction was still at standstill. Both directions had been stopped for 24 HOURS! Unimaginable to be stuck in that. Horrific! I dread to think of the cause of all that. 😢
I’ve been driving now since 1982 when I passed my test, and can honestly say I’ve been on a motorway about 10 or 11 times! Hate the things! There were A roads long before motorways, and frankly I’ve in most cases actually been quicker from A to B!
@@ruthcollins2841 its not smart motorways thats the issue... Its the idiots using them... I drive a tanker and didnt see 1 incident on a smart motorway... Lock down lifted, accidents every where. Says it all..
Anyone with any sense will stay at home during public holidays!!! Glad I'm retired and can sit back and watch the chaos. Love this program. Beats the rubbish put out from the USA any day
I’m just wondering if Sarah and Ross at 5:24 got fined for not wearing seatbelts? Same goes for the traffic officer lady who clearly isn’t wearing her seatbelt properly either at 12:03
I was involved in the first 100-vehicle pileup on the M1 so I age myself, but it is the first and only time I ever experienced fear, the cause was the trucks and coaches never slowed down although all we blind, the peasouper was so bad you couldn't see beyond the windshield but couldn't risk slowing down, the heavy vehicles would and did just drive over you.
I find it amazing how the M25 is busy and has massive congestion and volume problems when you compare it to other countries. Ontario, Canada has 18 lanes across in Toronto. Its 700,000 volume a day at the same place. The 401 hwy is massive in comparison. I guess its why britis will take the railway to get anywhere.
There is a huge nimby culture here and a lack of space. London real estate is very expensive and it would cost an unbelievable amount to double the lanes even if they wanted to
@@joelawton123 And when they do, they create a "smart motorway" by removing the hard shoulder and converting it into a running lane, meaning no place to pull over or for patrols to travel to get to an accident. Great planning, UK.
@@joelawton123 that’s the reality there and it makes the driving harder. Every country has its driving issues and infrastructure problems. We lack a train system for people and goods when compared to the UK etc,
I am genuinely surprised that the guy @ 5:22 was put in this program, without being fined for driving without due care and attention, proper headbanging to the song and not paying any attention to the road…
I do some pretty dramatic car karaoke when I'm out and about, had a fair few people point and laugh (I don't mind, it's fun!) but I always have my eyes on the road. I don't know how you'd even keep the steering steady if you're head banging, it's a pretty full body experience. Very dangerous.
That one lady us like, “I had another heart attack this morning but took some aspirin and here I am.” 😂😂😂gotta applaud her casualness and ability to joke about it.
I appreciate that the traffics officers don’t just release the hounds to cause havoc because they’re hellbent on getting wherever without caring that there are other people on the road. Reminds me of a pace car in a motor sports. I’d love to see that done here in the States.
I live near a bypass that leads to a seaside , bank holidays are stupefying , folks sitting in queues ! Stay in your garden with nice wine and maybe a barbecue .
Seeing things such as this, I am actually pleased that I have never been able to drive! (Profound motion sickness and also lack of funds!). Brought up my children, 2 of my own and 50 foster children, on my own, and travelled all over the UK by train! I have never missed being able to drive!
Years ago I broke down on a roundabout in Peterborough. I can only say thank you to the people who helped me. I had a baby in my car and my husband was in Oslo. They jumped out of their cars and helped me. After the third roundabout the police arrived along with a car mechanic. Fixed my car on the busiest roundabout in Peterborough and sent me on my way. And there was a thunderstorm over us!
@@sydnorth5868 The Truck with the Excavator was on the Hard Shoulder moving to Rejoin the Motorway, however, the part of the Bridge that was over the Hard Shoulder was Less than 16 ft 6 inches which meant that it should have been marked up with the True Height, and it wasn't, therefore, the Driver with his Excavator who's Height was less than 16' 6 inches assumed that the Bridge was on Excess of 16' 6 inches as per the Highway Code, Basically, any Bridge with a Height 16'6'' inches or less must be marked up with its True Height. Legally Wise, i would think that the Bill for the Repair would Lie with the Council of the Area.
The only problem with smart motorways is that there’s been no education on them. I did a speed awareness course after being caught by their cameras and learnt a lot about how they actually work - they’re miles better than “normal” motorways.
Back in the 1960's and 1970's proper documentaries were made - no patronising, inane, overly dramatic narration; just pictures, and real people talking - that's what told the story. I can't stand this tabloid journalism.
I agree, who can forget the "money program" or the truly terrifying "world in action." Just the music of the latter was enough to make you tremble. Unfortunately the TicTok generation has taken over the asylum.
we were coming home to Michigan from Florida last Saturday. 19 hour drive. one spot there was an accident. in the mountains. on a downward sweeping curve. NO shoulders. fortunately we were not involved. We pray for those who were and their speedy resolution of this nightmare. we were only waiting for 45 min. sounds like a long time? but for us it was just waiting. Keep calm people you eventually will get where your going. have sympathy for those whos lives were just shaken up or worse.
I love the girls in the office they all do a fantastic job 😀👍🙏
What these programmes don't show is them switching on the signs because the traffic is moving too well. I'm convinced they do; think about it, the times you go through maybe be 5 miles of gantries all saying; "report of obstruction" with a 40mph limit. Then suddenly you reach the one that switches you back to 70 and yet... Nothing; diddly squat of any obstruction. Does nobody think to themselves... "Why did they have the signs on for nothing then?"
@@johnbower7452 Possibly because just ahead of you, through all that slowdown, people have dragged/carried/pushed/pulled or otherwise coerced said obstruction off the road? The reason for the slowdown is to make it safe for them to remove it and for you to drive through as though nothing ever happened. I can assure you that, nowhere in the world can anyone ever say that the traffic is moving "too well"!!
Really? You don't drive on the motorway daily do you. These guys are in control of the signs and in charge of shutting down a lane quickly if a car is stranded. They fail on both counts. I have seen many stranded vehicles and the lane not shut down. It should be within 60 seconds. After all it's "a smart motorway" supposedly. I have seen families sitting on the grass. If that have had time to get out and sit on the grass then those ladies in the office have had time to spot it broken down. They also cause a lot of problems by putting the speed limit on 40 then 200 Meters onto 60 back to 70 back to 40 all within a few miles when nothing is an issue ahead. I don't expect you to know this If you don't drive 60 hrs a week on the motorways
Yeah
I agree
On my learners, my driving instructor asked me “how long has that Ute been driving behind you? How long has that car been next to you?” And I couldn’t answer because I never checked. That made me realise how important it is to be aware of not only yourself on the road, but also those around you. I’ve had people swerve infront of me, people merge in with no warning, and now I can just anticipate what other drivers are going to do
I draw a kind of rough mental map of the vehicles around me. And I make sure I'm never ever just sitting in someone's blind spot.
Which is why, close to a MILLION MILES driven and NO ACCIDENTS. Police trained, but not a loser. Follow Roadcraft and you cant go wrong.
If they learned it, most forget that skill five minutes after their exam. I do it consistently as I am very safety aware. I test drive new vehicle systems on the public road throughout the world, so I do about 300k miles a year. On average I have a small fender-bender every 1,5 million miles or 5 years.
You must be an aussie, no one else says ute
well done . Observation , Anticipation , works perfect .
So many of these accidents could be avoided by just giving a large gap, I can't comprehend why people don't do it... It's the easiest thing ever.
So true. I say that every time I get into a car.
So everyone that isn't can swerve into it if something goes wrong and you still end up in an accident, it's more relaxing leaving a big gap for drivers and passengers.
Plus leaving a gap beside you. When driving, I leave a huge gap in front of me and do my best not to have a car astride.
I want an escape route.
I wonder how many tailgaters are just a bit short sighted?
you often can't leave a large gap because several cars will fill it,
The people stopping traffic have a very dangerous job; it boggles my mind when drivers don't care and just drive through when they are being told to stop. It's fun how they all manage to keep a sense of humor.
Unfortunately in one of the episodes they covered this cases: it's a dangerous job, exacerbated by reckless, hasty non-compliant drivers. In the episode, it's quoted that they have lost officers. But Gracious this has led to severe strict laws for ignorant drivers escaping the stops through the hard shoulder.
So cute when boy says he’s hot and it’s only 80° F. I call that a wonderful day when gets around 100° here. It’s all what your used to.
Most of the time, a driver who fails to follow the directions can be issued with a ticket retrospectively
As someone who has had to stop traffic, its a joint assessment of safety to stop between the enforcer and driver. I want to expect everyone to stop but some drivers just wont see me or are busy looking at the incident. Its not personal. The enforcers are in this situation almost daily but the driver maybe once in their lifetime so not experienced it or expecting it.
And I guess the reverse could happen . that someone could jam on the brakes causing another multi rear-ender acco.
I'm impressed with how well organized and 'chipper' the traffic guiders-workers are. And i enjoy the accents.
So many of the drivers in this programme are larking about & not paying attention. I'm an accident specialist & no vehicle incident is nice but a motorway incident is horrendous. Big respect to the emergency services that brave clearing the roads for us, they have nerves of steel.
An accident specialist....really...OK then !!
@@bigwheelstv598 Makes me wonder how many accidents you have to have to get out of Novice class!
Very true, one pair of fools were playing loud music and headbanging to it while driving. Disgraceful behaviour.
@Not Me An
So true
I was at the incident with the bridge, it fell down 100m in front of me. And there was only 1 injury and that was to the motorcyclist and it was only a couple broken ribs, crazy
Wow that must've been something to see. It's amazing no one was seriously hurt. How did everyone behind the accident get out of there?
@@lpcookie1 very carefully, one vehicle at a time & with lots of police directing traffic, the wrong way up the motorway to the next junction.
And THIS is why we stay home on holiday weekends!!!
Same here. I always volunteer to work and take the day in lieu at a quieter weekend.
You and me both.
Exactly, us too. I live near the junction of the M4/M5, main holiday routes to Wales and the South West. We see the parking lot and sometimes the carnage. We stay home having BBQs and picnics.
Same way here in the US. I am glad to stay home and have a BBQ. Traffic is crazy on the 2 main highways and the turnpike here on holidays. If I have to go out I take back streets and shortcuts away from the traffic. We are 35 miles outside Philly but traffic really ramps up (pun intended) as you hit the suburbs.
Same here! Pleased as punch to stay put and watch movies in our lovely, cool home!
This is a great example of why I tend to stay off the roads altogether on bank holiday weekends and if I have no alternative, travel in the early hours of the morning. Our road network just can't cope and people's driving and observational skills seem to deteriorate as it gets busier and busier. I don't envy the guys who, in the worst case scenarios, have to scoop up limbs and blood off the road.
Viewing this it is very clear that a lot of folk actually need their licences revoking for life.
Lol just driving makes that very clear
I remember the M1 being built and the fogs that rolled down the dry valleys it cut through. There were some enormous tail-enders as motorists suddenly braked in one of these fog banks. There was no safety barrier and no speed limit. When car-style fog warning lamps were hastily installed beside the left-hand lane, many were stolen.
and the Luton and Dunstable A&E was often full of road crash victims
@@aqueenslander My son-in-law was a firefighter and the fire service were often the ones to be in the position of being first attenders.
What did you do this weekend?
I play cricket on the M20
that's just Britain at its finest
Yeah and what was that shot bruh
………was at Woolies’ getting groceries’, on a Monday, & check-out lass asked me did I have a nice weekend. When I replied, ‘yes, I did, I flew to Antarctica’, she was flabbergasted. Yep, day flight on QANTAS, 5&half hours’ each way to/from, & 3 hours’ at 10,000 feet, for viewing. Best money I’ve ever spent! It was fantastic, & the camaraderie on board was top-notch. For Dessert after Dinner, on way back, we had ice-cream in the little buckets’, which I’d not had since a kid!
6:45 seeing those ppl playing cricket on the closed carriageway made me chuckle
Yeahh same, btw are you a cricket fan?
Howzat?
Reckon he was caught at backward point there
He played a terrible shot though...
I remember the day the bridge collapsed on the M20! watched it unfold on the cameras at home. Traffic everywhere as west Kent was at a standstill. Had to tell my friend's family to not travel west of Maidstone cause of the chaos. What a day! A Bank Holiday like no other in the south east.
The Highways officers should get the same respect as all other emergency services workers. Most people see them as a pain but if you were working on clearing an accident, you wouldn't want cars speeding past you in the next lane over whilst rubber-necking!
Wombles🙈🙈🙈🙈
What so they should get same respect as police? Very little?
@@JoelBDUK Well I mean the only people who disrespect coppers are those who're bitter about getting caught doing 46 in a 30.
@Connor Dakoz why do they hate them? I don't get it. I'm not going to drone on about "well you should follow the rules" because nobody does but I just don't understand
@archechme every time I'm stuck in one they're all just standing about and work at a snails pace. Got stuck in a jam for 3 hours because someone had bumped into the back of someone else. Everyone was fine, the cars could still even roll on but nope hold up for 3 hours for what essentially should've been 30 minutes.
I was driving about a minute behind the bridge strike - taxiing a passenger from Maidstone to Gatwick, en route to taking up a job on a cruise liner in Spain. Needless to say, we didn't make it that day, although he was able to reschedule, and I took him to Heathrow the next day...
How has a bridge strike happened on a motorway?! All motorway bridges should be at least 5 meters tall
EMILY is correct with her reaction of “ EPIC “. Let alone the spectacular smashing of that bridge the domino effect upon all of those travellers & those connected to them & so on plus those whom can’t now use that bridge & the many staff called out to move its wreckage - incredible .
What I find really gobsmacking is that 01:46 the child has no seat belt on, then even more alarmingly at 05:28 driver is not even looking at the road and that not one of them has a seat belt on, a high speed crash in an old vehicle like that and they're all dead !
My thought as well seeing the child with no seatbelt.
I’m so programmed to put my seatbelt on that when having to switch parking spots on the driveway, I automatically put my seatbelt on just to back out onto the street and immediately pull back down the driveway to let a family member get out!
No way, you actually think they are not wearing a seatbelt?
Ever heard of a lap belt? The child is 100% wearing one. For the parents it is harder to see, but under their jackets they are also.
At 05:28 that looks like a left hand drive VW motor caravan. Apart from not wearing a seat belt, that vehicle has zero crumple zones. Hit anything at speed and the front of the vehicle would wrap itself around the two front seat occupants probably killing them outright.
The driver not watching the road properly is moving at a snails pace, so am not sure there is much of an issue there.
Obviously he shouldn't have his eyes shut like it seems, but as mentioned above it looks like they are barely moving.
@@iaintdonknow It's so plainly obvious they're not wearing seatbelts.
I remember that bridge hit well. At the time, I lived localy and worked within a couple of miles of the accident scene. That Saturday, I was rotered to work my first ever night shift and my journey involved crossing the M20 at J7. I thaught that I would have trouble getting to work, but luckly, I was ok. It was bizarre to see a totally deserted carrageway below me as I crossed.
Rotered? As in flown?
What year was this filmed
@@Suisfonia Probably meant rostered...
@@s125ish The bridge was hit in August 2016.
@@unconventionalideas5683I think they want rota to be a verb. Rota’d 🤔
I drove by the bridge a week later and it was crazy seeing it cut in half !
I bet you thought why have they built that just partway across, makes no sense.
Well it does make a lot of sense it was caused by a crash mate 😃
2:18 - you don't drive looking at the vehicle in-front of you, you drive looking at the road ahead. From my perspective here, all of those cars are in the wrong. Very little space in-between them either. Always keep two chevrons distance.
It's absolutely impossible to keep a two chevron distance on the M25 without getting cut up (not to mention there aren't any spacing chevrons) but you can usually manage a one-second gap and just have to pay attention. I find it safest to do about 60 and then you're generally being overtaken rather than closing gaps on slower cars.
@@SerenaBluee Rubbish drivers, without a clue!
@@SerenaBluee About the same thing ,having driven the M 25 amazing even the smallest gap is fair game .
@@SerenaBluee Just pick a marker the car in front just went past for reference IE a post or sign then count 2 seconds If it's less than that when you pass the same marker point your too close.THAT is how you figure 2 chevrons in your head for future reference.
Pick a point and say to yourself, "only a fool breaks the two second rule". You won't be far off. 😉
I’ve always thought that at half mile intervals the barrier should have a ‘gate’ function, so that for major traffic jams, the gate can be lifted and cars send across onto the other (closed) carriageway to reduce the number of cars queueing.
Most of these "drivers" are on another planet, looking everywhere but the road, inattentive, driving far to close, not reading the road, not looking for an escape route if things go pear shaped, all these accidents are just waiting to happen. What they need to realise, is they in control of a lump of metal thats a killing machine.
Audi drivers are like that!
I actually remember that accident on the M20, and the HGV driver was very lucky to walk away with his life. Crazy! Great job the guys do on the road 👍
How did he hit the bridge?
@@selina.c I don't know which of the 2 trucks hit it, but if it was the one with the excavator on the back then most likely the arm of the excavator wasn't lowered enough and it hit the bridge. If it was the other truck that hit it first, then I have no idea how as those type of trucks shouldn't be high enough to hit bridges like that.
@Hagar minimum unmarked bridge height is 5 metres which is 16'4¾" just in case you ever drive something that tall. Although some sources say 16´-3˝ (4.95 metres) because they don't always remember to measure after they resurface the road.
@@Nox_Eternis Looks like you're right on that... @6:14 you can see a lot of concrete dust on top of the excavator arm...
I’m a class 1 driver and as far as i know it atleast what I go by, anything under 16.2” will be marked as low bridge
When driving, I, always make regular routine checks every few seconds, regarding what is happening on the road ahead of my, directly in front of me and to all sides and always glance up at every bridge right before passing under it. Easy to do when it becomes second nature. Even more so when riding a motorbike. Always pre plan escape routes before they are required. Do this in any country automatically. Ex professional driver of just about anything and everything.
Not a lot you can do if you check the bridge right as you pass under it
@@cecil4485 Oh, it's okay...he's a 'professional.' Bahahahaha! 🤣
Yes I always pre plan too. It's better than post planning.
@@dionst.michael1482 He pre plans! (As if you could post plan.)
@@dionst.michael1482 he's also reversed a truck and trailer around the earth 3 times and has 1 million accident free miles under his belt
So glad when I lived in that part of the world, holidays were spent on a boat on the rivers. They could be busy but being self contained, it didn't matter.
If you look at the digger which hit the bridge at 07:30 it has it's bucket in a "backfill" position. This was the cause of the accident, its travel height was raised because the bucket was not curled in its "digging" configuration
For the record I live nearby to the incident and this was the actual cause :)
but the arm nor dipper arm look damaged
@@tylerkni5148 That's not necessarily entirely surprising, because of how hard the arm needs to be to survive the harsh construction environment.
Exactly mate bridge would at least been 16ft6 high. Not many trucks that high
Thanks for that information. I was wondering how on earth a lorry could collide with an overhead bridge on a motorway.
That bloke travelling with a kid in the back of van with no belt on her 🙄
I noticed that. Should be prosecuted.
It's a vintage VW camper so it either has no seatbelts fitted in the rear (not legally required to be fitted to the rear seats on vehicles before 1986) or it has a lap belt which is less obvious. I think I can see a little bit of a black strip on her left hip (right as you look) implying use of a lap belt.
Not easy to see but I think there was a lap belt. Not ideal but that's likely all that is fitted on that vehicle.
@@jamesbrook16 Didn't notice close enough, looks like she has a lap belt on which is probably all that is fitted in the rear of that vehicle.
What chance did this child have with no seatbelt!!!ZERO ridiculous!!!
Love the show, but whoever picked the music in this episode is my hero!
🤏🤣😂. I did Shazam a few of them. Loving "Signed,Sealed and Delivered by" Stevie wonder.✅.
As a bus driver, I’ve seen so many idiots who have no idea that we can’t just stop a bus dead but they still pull out right in front of us or over take us on blind bends! It’s crazy
Much like how some folks imagine HGVs can stop on a dime, ignoring factors like type of cargo and amount of load. Technical capabilities of a vehicle do not apply in every situation.
They are ridiculous. Near me there’s bus stops where the bus has to stop on the actual road and people beep expecting you to overtake but I always wait behind to allow person on bus and then bus can carry on safely.
I used to drive buses myself and like you I've seen the worst from other road users. Had cars race past me at a bus stop and saw many a near miss and a few collisions and had cars try to blame me because I stopped in a bus stop!
ye if you’d stop u would hurt everyone inside your bus bruh
I have had a Coach blindsiding me where the driver did not look. I took avoiding action! Proffessional drivers are no different to the idiots around them!
1:43 "Mummy, is it true that this death-trap of a hippy mobile has no seatbelts in the back? "
No because she’s wearing a lap belt.
@Simon_PieMan look again I don't see one 😮
Lap belts are just as bad tbf@@Simon_PieMan
I came off the m25 recently onto the M3 and my car failed in the fast lane with loss of power. My mind instantly thought about rolling into the inside asap (they don’t have hard shoulder on m3 anymore along that stretch). My bmw fail safe is to stop the engine from working and I could not override the handbrake to move the car manually so had no choice but to stand other side of the barrier. Within two minutes the traffic officers were there (thanks to the radar poles locally telling them a vehicle was stranded). Cars were flying past, I can’t imagine what I would have done if stuck in the fast lane or even indeed what may have happened. I was so worried others may crash into my car and it might hurt someone or worse. But even on the inside lane cars were flying past 70/80mph and only just missing my car. It was 10pm, dark and pretty busy, I thank the traffic officers for their speedy work and arrival as well as getting me 200 yards down the road with a tow to the sos lane.
I love this kind of documentaries. Very interesting.
Fr
Wow! This is fascinating. Great work, everyone!
For an Aussie to hear 27° degrees is hot in the UK always amazes me 🔥 🇦🇺
I was wondering what they meant by ‘heatwave’. 27, that’s just an average spring or summer’s day. A heatwave is when the temp is over 35 for more than three days in a row. 27 😂
Well if the majority of your buildings dont have air con, and were built to conduct and store heat, then it would feel hot to you too
Well for us indians, even in the winter it hits 27 degrees brother, IMAGINE LOL 27 degrees is nothing
it's a different kind of heat, the humidity (on top of our infrastructure) makes it unbearable... put me in a different climate at 30+° and i'd be fine!
The little girl in the camper van with no belt 😳😳 Do these parents just not love their kids or what?! 😢
My daughter lived in London for five years and told me that Parents yell and swear at their kids in public , smoke cigarettes near them or in their houses. She was beyond saddened.
I think she is wearing a belt but only around her waist
@@randomness051 so a totally pointless way to wear it that won't stop her from bullseying the window!
@@flowerpower3618 that is incredibly sad! I'm a smoker myself, my son is 3yo and he's only ever seen me with a cigarette once (because I didn't shut the back door behind me properly and he came outside) I know he must smell it and the chemicals will be on my clothes still but I still think that's better than smoking in the house. As for the swearing and shouting in public, imagine what happens behind closed doors 😪
@@Puddleduck1 that's how some cars are. I have 2 siblings and one of them always sat in the middle using the lap belt when we all travelled somewhere
Your little song at the end lead to me going down a Vaporwave rabbit hole for which I thank you as I never knew such a genre of music existed.
After driving a moped for about two years now, I've realised how strong my observation skills have gotten.
"Drive like everyone else is out to get you", is the advice my Mum said.
It just fries my brain how people intentionally play chicken with a lorry, and are shocked when it doesn't go according to plan.
very well said...another motorbike driver here so i agree with all that.
Trucker and biker here, oh and I have a car too. See it all from all angles. Some days I wonder how I still get behind the wheel or on the bike with the sheer volume of stupidity, ignorance, and impatience I see everyday.
Yes every driver is a potential killer! So observation is important!
As a rider I 100% agree
6:49 bro these people playing cricket, gotta love it
Also what kinda shot was that not even a punch or a pull idk
Not seen this film yet, but to my knowledge the multiple pile up on the Isle of Sheppey Bridge is one of the worst accidents ever. I think about 70 cars were involved, all because no one refuced their speed when the fog came down.
"I'm excited I'm gonna go get drunk" wow what a nice holiday those kids are gonna have. Who's going to look after them while you're getting smashed? Smh mother of the year 🙄
did Ur parents never drink
Kids that look 16-20 years old not kids
@@kriswilson265 they still wouldn't have appreciated their mother being off her face.
My ex wife did exactly that and she ruined our one and only holiday to the isle of white in 1996. All she did was shout at the kids and drink . I don't drink and never have . My daughter remembers it well as she was looking forward to it . Sad days .
Wow bet you are fun at parties
I respect respect your business and thank you for all your business 20:05
... lady pillion rider.. I've had three major heart attacks recently.. and felt unwell this morning.. so decided to get on the back of this harley for a blast down the motorway lol
Absolutely, if you rode, you'd understand.
Amazing video👌🏼
'Survived a major heart attack this morning'
No... No you really didn't....
@@srjwari You must be her doctor then? Knowing she does nothing about her weight. Just who are you to say that?
@@srjwari you just came up with a whole story in your head about this woman’s life and you don’t even know her. Also that generalisation about people on benefits is very inaccurate.
@@srjwari everyone knows studying "psychology" makes you psychic!
💯💯💯🤣🤣🤣 She absolutely did not survive a major heart attack that morning. What a plonker 😂
Being a motorcyclist helps alot with driving. Always have to be alert and expect people to be behind you, to the side of you and everything. Look far ahead as possible but cant understand how people can have an accident on a motorway or dual carriageway
As an Hgv driver , all i can see
not checking mirrors when they change lanes
not put the indicator
driving to slow on middle lane
using mobile phones . etc
dailly on m5 im seeing cars accident , m42 . and all the congestion starts
Lesson learned to the silly cow who decided to sit up the side of an HGV!! Never do that because they can’t see you in their blind spot! Either get passed them or stay back!!
I always try to keep left but it's really frustrating how often you get blocked by some wally just sitting on your boot in the middle lane and not just getting past you!!!
cars cut in front of us , and brake , they dont realise a lorry its not easy to stop/ slow down
Are you on about the one where the HGV cut up the driver in a blind spot? HGVs fault mate
There’s no evidence the “cow” was sitting up the side of the HGV…and even if they did, how about checking your blind spot before changing lanes?
Hanging out on the blind side of a semi or lorry is one way to commit suicide.
Yes the driver of the truck might be entirely and legally at fault.
But you’ll be entirely physically dead. There’s a reason it’s called the blind side.
Being from the US, I love hearing the people speaking; their accents are a delight.
Come to the UK mate we’d love to have you
@Joe Lynch you have accents to everyone else. Language goes both ways.
Likewise, as a British person I love hearing the US accents . The phrase y'all in the southern accent 💜💜💜
If there's one thing i learned a long time ago,it's not to go out with the car during a bank holiday...
I know that stretch of the M20 very well, my parents only recently moved from Gillingham which is the next exit off the M20... I'm glad I wasn't heading to visit them that particular Bank Holiday weekend...😅 There's a lovely new footbridge at Teapot Lane now!!
5:43 "how hot is it?" "It's 27 degrees" 😂😂 come to Australia, that's just a lukewarm spring day!
Lukewarm in England is about 12 degrees and you will be complaining you're cold. We climatise to where we live. No idea why people bring this sort of info up. Utterly pointless.
WE DEMAND MORE OF THIS, LOTS MORE OF THESE PROFESSIONALS. NOW! Thank you,
I choose to work on Bank Holidays rather than join all the queues.
Carmagedon is one of my favorite video games!!🤘🤘🤘
I've come from buses on to National Express coaches West Yorkshire, I'm 25 only just started driving 2 years now and I look forward to my new journey, not met many idiots yet on the motorway but met plenty whilst driving in the city but plenty of traffic and diversions 😃😂 Way I see it we all gotta work together and be patient. Big up these guys and the emergency services 👏🏼 Take care stay safe out there people! ✌🏼👊🏼
7:42 Second you there mate...you're doing a Diamond job keep it up.
I love Emily, she is just banters
13:34 can we take a moment to appreciate the awesome rendition of a Classic Tracy Chapman!!
I was pleasantly surprised! That lad can sing!!
@@13191215 He certainly can!!! Hadn’t heard this song. Shazamed it, downloaded it! Love finding new stuff like this.
Would love to see these two sing more.
Taking a look at the dropped bridge it's hard to tell if that lorry was actually over-height. Perhaps for that particular route, but in general it did not look to be any larger/taller than a standard trailer. It looked like there as an elevation difference between the outside lanes and the center... did the footbridge cross below standard height in the area the truck was operating?
It was the truck in the left hand lane that hit the bridge. He had an elevator type thing on the back and it was this that caused the collapse.
@@stephenrandall3551 Yes , I think that's right 8:59 The truck with the digger hit the bridge and it came down on the white truck. They don't tell people ! Millions were interested , all they're told is a truck hit a bridge.
You can look up the incident online by searching for "M20 bridge collapse".
As others have said it was the lorry in lane 1 (nearest the hard shoulder) which had an overheight excavator on the back that actually hit the bridge and brought it down on the standard height white lorry in the middle lane as it was overtaking.
in the UK we have a different ‘standard’ height for HGV. most of Europe is 4 metres but in the uk the average heights of HGVs is between 4.2 & 4.65 metres
@@cjatruckphotos the problem was that the digger should have been moved on a low loader (that's exactly what they are for) or it should have had its boom extended forwards to reduce its height.
The driver had struck the underside of the previous bridge and got out to check his load. He concluded it was ok.
He got a 12 month prison sentence which was suspended for two years. He also had to do 200 hours of unpaid community service. Didn't read anything about whether his driving licence was affected.
It’s not the fast lane it’s the outside lane which often moves slower than the other lanes !
the general rule of thumb for Americans: right lane (slowest lane) is for under speed limit to +3 mph over, middle lane is for +5mph to +10mph over, and left lane (fastest lane) is +10mph and faster. If you don't move over for someone going 85mph in a 70mph you're rude
The term "Slow Lane" is the cause of Middle Lane Hoggers.
They mistakenly think the inside lane is for slow-moving vehicles only.
@@klausjackklaus ffs
@@phillwainewright4221 no. You should be in left unless overtaking
@@klausjackklaus In Europe the left lane is only for overtaking
Looking at that first shunt at around 2:50 I remember when I was driving down the American east coast to LAX some years back and there was a similar sort of accident … I was starting to sweat because in the UK I would have been there hours. Nope … police rolled up, ascertained everybody was ok, then stopped the traffic and either pushed, drove or pulled every car off the highway and within minutes everybody was on their way again. That would NEVER have happened in the UK.
5:40
"its really hot whats the temp?"
"27"
me (an australian): ah so its winter.
I remember driving south from Cumbria to reach Liverpool airport. Getting onto the southbound motorway luckily a holdup was just opening up. Crossing onto the motorway, traffic in the northbound direction was still at standstill. Both directions had been stopped for 24 HOURS! Unimaginable to be stuck in that. Horrific! I dread to think of the cause of all that. 😢
Motorway cricket was classsss
Would probably get caught at cover or extra cover
I’ve been driving now since 1982 when I passed my test, and can honestly say I’ve been on a motorway about 10 or 11 times! Hate the things! There were A roads long before motorways, and frankly I’ve in most cases actually been quicker from A to B!
With these lethal "smart motorways" I prefer to use A roads.
Never been on one as a driver and never will either!
@@ruthcollins2841 its not smart motorways thats the issue...
Its the idiots using them...
I drive a tanker and didnt see 1 incident on a smart motorway...
Lock down lifted, accidents every where.
Says it all..
If you don't have the confidence to drive safely on a motorway, you shouldn't be driving at all.
@@mattd6085 yes, if you never have to use a motorway then you should never drive at all. That makes so much sense.
Anyone with any sense will stay at home during public holidays!!! Glad I'm retired and can sit back and watch the chaos.
Love this program. Beats the rubbish put out from the USA any day
That very first woman driving took both hands off the wheel whilst moving at speed, great example of what they were afraid of.
"Mummie! is it truuuue that a millipedes got...um... ten ooooys?" LOL, how cute is that little kiddo.
The M25 is often known as Britain's Biggest Car Park. The bridge incident in this video is from 2017, I think.
My parents call it Britain's Biggest Car Park, and I think it was 2016
I love Friday afternoons when I am doing 3 hours in 10 miles... Great Country,. .great roads...
Toast and Marmite with grated cheddar on top is awesome. . .
NO marmite, and the cheese needs to be sliced, not grated, for more even coverage. Grated cheese never reaches the corners
FANTASTIC MUSIC 🎶🎶🎶 GREAT JOB,...,
I agree! If no one had made this comment, I was going to!!🎉
I’m just wondering if Sarah and Ross at 5:24 got fined for not wearing seatbelts? Same goes for the traffic officer lady who clearly isn’t wearing her seatbelt properly either at 12:03
And the child at the start with no seatbelt.
The fact they chose to be on camera too, and still didn't put their seatbelts on... one of the worst self snitchings possible
I was involved in the first 100-vehicle pileup on the M1 so I age myself, but it is the first and only time I ever experienced fear, the cause was the trucks and coaches never slowed down although all we blind, the peasouper was so bad you couldn't see beyond the windshield but couldn't risk slowing down, the heavy vehicles would and did just drive over you.
I find it amazing how the M25 is busy and has massive congestion and volume problems when you compare it to other countries. Ontario, Canada has 18 lanes across in Toronto. Its 700,000 volume a day at the same place. The 401 hwy is massive in comparison. I guess its why britis will take the railway to get anywhere.
There is a huge nimby culture here and a lack of space.
London real estate is very expensive and it would cost an unbelievable amount to double the lanes even if they wanted to
@@joelawton123 And when they do, they create a "smart motorway" by removing the hard shoulder and converting it into a running lane, meaning no place to pull over or for patrols to travel to get to an accident. Great planning, UK.
@@joelawton123 that’s the reality there and it makes the driving harder. Every country has its driving issues and infrastructure problems. We lack a train system for people and goods when compared to the UK etc,
@@joelawton123 And it won't help with traffic at all. As then you have scared a ton of people away from public transport.
This music is amazing!!!!
I am genuinely surprised that the guy @ 5:22 was put in this program, without being fined for driving without due care and attention, proper headbanging to the song and not paying any attention to the road…
I thought the same. Complete id!ot.
I do some pretty dramatic car karaoke when I'm out and about, had a fair few people point and laugh (I don't mind, it's fun!) but I always have my eyes on the road. I don't know how you'd even keep the steering steady if you're head banging, it's a pretty full body experience. Very dangerous.
That one lady us like, “I had another heart attack this morning but took some aspirin and here I am.” 😂😂😂gotta applaud her casualness and ability to joke about it.
I wish we had traffic officers like this in Canada.
as a driver of 5 years travelling to Melbourne for work…
“drive like everyone is out to get you”
made me such a confident driver…
1:43 - Mum & Dad nicely buckled in...
👉🏻 where is the childs seat belt 👈🏻
Motorway Driving!! 🤔
Why am i seeing this on the August bank holiday😭🙏 8:03
People do not realise that if they run over the debris they will probably get a puncher even the smallest pieces of back lights can do it .
People appear throwing their fists around when you drive over debris?
Interesting video!
1:35 couple sat in lane when they could move over then they get mad about being undertook lol
Plus their young child sat in the back with absolutely no seatbelt restraints, how dumb can you get.
@@tyronenelson9124 I know I noticed that lol idiots
LOL - "it's really hot", "it's 27oC" .... that is perfect weather. If it was 27oC every day, I would be a very content Australian.
Different climate
I appreciate that the traffics officers don’t just release the hounds to cause havoc because they’re hellbent on getting wherever without caring that there are other people on the road. Reminds me of a pace car in a motor sports. I’d love to see that done here in the States.
It probably is on some occasions, as in Britain (it's not necessarily universal there).
@10:55 The Trumpton nickname caught on camera 🙂
Makes me laugh every time. Particularly when it's said so seriously.
I live near a bypass that leads to a seaside , bank holidays are stupefying , folks sitting in queues ! Stay in your garden with nice wine and maybe a barbecue .
Seeing things such as this, I am actually pleased that I have never been able to drive! (Profound motion sickness and also lack of funds!).
Brought up my children, 2 of my own and 50 foster children, on my own, and travelled all over the UK by train!
I have never missed being able to drive!
Years ago I broke down on a roundabout in Peterborough. I can only say thank you to the people who helped me. I had a baby in my car and my husband was in Oslo. They jumped out of their cars and helped me. After the third roundabout the police arrived along with a car mechanic. Fixed my car on the busiest roundabout in Peterborough and sent me on my way. And there was a thunderstorm over us!
Amazing how that digger took the bridge down on the bk of that wagon, it doesn’t look that high and looks brand new, doesn’t even look damaged
I don't think it was the orange excavator that hit the bridge. There's something in front of it on the trailer (look at the overhead shot at 8:55)
@@sydnorth5868 The Truck with the Excavator was on the Hard Shoulder moving to Rejoin the Motorway, however, the part of the Bridge that was over the Hard Shoulder was Less than 16 ft 6 inches which meant that it should have been marked up with the True Height, and it wasn't, therefore, the Driver with his Excavator who's Height was less than 16' 6 inches assumed that the Bridge was on Excess of 16' 6 inches as per the Highway Code, Basically, any Bridge with a Height 16'6'' inches or less must be marked up with its True Height. Legally Wise, i would think that the Bill for the Repair would Lie with the Council of the Area.
@@MADTASS correct, i live there(that junction) and that bridge sloped down towards the hard shoulder massivly
Gosh remember that bridge collapse like it was yesterday
Commentator - "Five cars piled up behind a driver who's braked hard in the fast lane" - there is no Fast Lane, only overtaking lanes!
It's actually refered to as 'Lane 3' in this case.....
Outside lane normally referred too.
You are wrong
Holiday times, we travelled overnight through Manchester and Birmingham. Towing a caravan, felt it was safer.
And our government wants no hard shoulder…..how smart is that…
They are hoping to overturn the 'experiment' due to number of fatalities as result
There is no hard shoulder on the M25
Hmm, because hard shoulders stop breakdowns happening in the other lanes. Yeah, got it, 👍
The only problem with smart motorways is that there’s been no education on them. I did a speed awareness course after being caught by their cameras and learnt a lot about how they actually work - they’re miles better than “normal” motorways.
Sean has a great voice
Back in the 1960's and 1970's proper documentaries were made - no patronising, inane, overly dramatic narration; just pictures, and real people talking - that's what told the story. I can't stand this tabloid journalism.
I agree, who can forget the "money program" or the truly terrifying "world in action." Just the music of the latter was enough to make you tremble. Unfortunately the TicTok generation has taken over the asylum.
we were coming home to Michigan from Florida last Saturday. 19 hour drive. one spot there was an accident. in the mountains. on a downward sweeping curve. NO shoulders. fortunately we were not involved. We pray for those who were and their speedy resolution of this nightmare. we were only waiting for 45 min. sounds like a long time? but for us it was just waiting. Keep calm people you eventually will get where your going. have sympathy for those whos lives were just shaken up or worse.
"Blocked the fast lane"
There's no such thing 🤷♂️
Exactly what I thought. "But the Fast Lane doesn't exist..."