Snow Chaos in London 1981 | accident in the snow | Thames News| Weather Report |TN-81-027-019
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- THAMES NEWS. 8. 12. 81. WEATHER, SNOW & FLYOVER CRASH.
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In 1981 Snow causes chaos in London, with cars breaking down and crashes happening across the capital!
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Thames News was the flagship regional news programme of Thames Television, serving the Thames ITV region and broadcast on weekdays from 12 September 1977 to 31 December 1992. 
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I was 7 in 1981 and snow was hugely exciting for me as a small boy. Being snowed IN, the fire lit, making a snow man and very few cars on the road where I lived, it transformed my world. Everything changes, but one thing that remained the same is how much I like snow and this video takes me back and was suggested to me on the very day we have had snow! Ace.
This would have been November 1981. I was still at school at the time. I remember there was a respite in December and then BOOM! Snow came back with a vengeance, January 1982. And much worse. Plus, no school cancellations for me either.
I was four months old!!
I make you spot on sir
This is from early December, not November.
I was 14 at the time.
Lucky timing for the cameraman capturing that shunt
Yeah very lucky .... there were hardly any camera then on the road to record any incident but in today traffic there are cameras everywhere installed on roads to have a full footage of any accident and event occur on the road
He's probably the reason it happened (seriously) - I bet you any money that the other driver was looking to his left thinking "what is that guy filming? oh shit" BANG
Here let me shunt you off the road - That wasn't the kind of assistance he was expecting.
@@Camberwell86 no he got hit from behind from the truck that then propelled him into the cortina estate, you here the bang about a second before
The pale, snow covered England of the early '80s feels like a distant memory now. I would have been 6, and trying to get to my primary school that stood at the bottom of a winding road that inclined steeply through the local council estate. I can still recall the day our car did a full 180 spin, half way down the steepest bit of road. Just a jolly jape to us kids!
0:43 "I don`t think my car`s broken down"?? Well get going then lol
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Probably insufficient (or no) antifreeze in the cooling system. The radiator will be solid and stone cold. The hot water in the engine block has nowhere to go to cool down.
@@MarkAtkin unlikely after 3 and a half hours of driving, it just got too hot
Then the snow returned in 1982. And 1983. And 1985...1991...
We still can't cope with!
And nearly 2 feet of snow in the southeast & east midlands in january 1987!❄️❄️☃️⛄
We also had quite abit of snow in the late Noughties. And then there was the 'Beast from the East' in March 2018.
And still nothing changes! .... we're as unprepared now (2023) as we were back in 1981! lol ....but at least people use their headlights in low daylight conditions....and their hazard warning lights.
That Cortina estate sat in the middle lane with no hazard warning lights on?? wtf!! - the driver could have been killed...as could the driver of the car that went into it. They were both very lucky imo. Had the Cortina driver had their hazard warning lights on, the car that ploughed into the back of it, might have been able to avoid it in time.
Yea, our driving habits have definitely come a long way since 1981. That's for sure!
Even England has snow from time to time love from snowy Sweden.
Cracking footage of our transport network falling to pieces! Just a shame 38 years later its no different!
How amazing everyone got out of the vehicles and the insurance companies didn't have to pay out a further 10k for personal injuries..
@@Isleofskye That's a mighty big shoe horn you have there
The ford cortina driver was sitting behind the wheel waiting to be shunted.....he didn’t have to wait long hahahahaha
Great memories of this old London snow video
wow! how driving has progressed since then. I vaguely remember this winter as I was driving by then, see how few vehicles are using any lights, the broken down vehicles didn't have hazard lights either, the vintage London bus with an open platform for boarding / alighting!
That was the worse snow for over 20 years and the coldest winter ever. The highest was only minus 11 degrees !
I hope the driver of the rear-ended Cortina was ok.
R.I.P for the car probably😢
It will have been recycled into a Ford fiesta
Snow-Chaos. Just an ordinary autumn day here in Finland.
Yes but it is rare here in the UK, its everyday for you, so obvious.
Lots of old rear wheel drive and probably plenty of cross-ply tyres still on the go
Along similar lines there's a video on RUclips of casual drivers going around the Nurburgring in the 1970s - the cars all have tiny skinny tyres, jacked-up suspension, thin a-pillars etc. They roll over at the slightest provocation.
I miss London terribly.....I'm english and stuck in America
I would be turning 8 in this year in June. I can vaguely remember going to school in waist deep snow and being turned back by the headmaster when I got there.
The year I passed my driving test I was 18 years old good times
you young uns don't know half of it , i remember back in 1962 63 snow up to your waste leaving work at 5 oclock not getting home till past midnight misses hving to get your clothes off and get your circulation going could of died of hypnothurmia
No Football for 9 weeks as I recall...
Snow up to your *waist*
Could *have* died.
I bet those same young _uns_ can spell.
That North Circular was a pig of a road. Years later, it still is, and the M25's meant to take the bulk of its traffic.
1:38 , why do I have a feeling the news crew was part of the reason for the accident
Good point !
The truck shunted the white van first
I would hate to see what chaos would occurred if they had got a real heavy snowfall
No one was hurt ? . But l say the person in the Ford cortina , his back would not in great shape after that collision from behind .
My boyfriends car was stolen by someone trying to get home. It was found 6 weeks later but when we went to pick it up the block was completely frozen.
Then, as now, London gets 2” of snow and it collapses in a heap of moaning and mismanagement.
Meanwhile farmers in the fells get on with it.
I seem to remember more snow, certainly in Harrow where I was...
These hold ups are the norm now.....
brilliant
in 2021 on April th 11 there snow everyware but i was lucky to not have snow on the ground were i lived i was clouse not to have it also snow a little but won,t be serprise if it snowed in April again. Instead of December. 💔🖤🎈🎈
How could this happen snow in winter it’s shocking
Although one had to be minful, the days when people would stop and give you a lift during treacherous weather.
It was worse than this in early 1991......not to mention early 2009 (biggest snowfall since early 91), Dec 2010 (coldest december for 100 years) , and March 2018 (beast from the east).
i would have been just 4 months old at the time. :)
That road here the shunt happened is still exactly the same. The same shit hole.
Snow, what bloody snow?? you don't call that snow!!!
Yeah, it's snow, and plenty of it. 1982 was the big freeze ruclips.net/video/H4AcjxxEPXc/видео.html
@@alloneword7427 62 63 was the real big freeze and before that it was 1947
To be fair, the white van got propelled into the cortina by the shove from the truck (tk?), the white van slowed down but the truck, er, didn't
Great days
yeah , i think i'll sit in the car here in the middle lane with no hazard lights on ...i'll be fine
Many cars didn't have hazard lights in 1981. He could have left his side lights on as a warning, or kept his foot on the brake to show brake lights. (Assuming that the electrics hadn't died completely.)
electrics could have died completely maybe ,but i've never heard of a car without hazard lights before ...they certainly had them on the car in question which i think is a 1970's Ford Cortina . It looks very dark and cars have no lights on which would be unheard of now in these conditions .
andy a I've a 1973 Morris 1100 it was supplied without hazard lights. Not sure exactly when they became mandatory.
Battery died completely.... 🙄
@@zxz1 I've had several cars without hazard lights - Morris 1000, Triumph Herald, Hillman Imp...
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Something haven't changed then in over 40 years😆
1.38 haha!
1:37 truck driver on his phone...
not in 1981 they came out in 85
Looks like America free cab those cars people, who wants try be ride it is, huh? Pretty crazy those running the local transport! 😟
Now we don't get Snow like we used to anymore thanks to Climate Change..
Climate hoax....
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Crash from 1:13 .
Where's all the foreigners
Nobody wanted to come here in 1981.
I was going to school in 1981 and there were probably 15 different nationalities in a class of thirty
i was from tulse hill sth london n there were loads of west indians n asians but no eastos then.
red flag : Not "Asians"; Pakistanis from the same village of Miripur.
Lots To Learn pakistanis not asian? i