The Crash Detectives BBC

[The Mad Monk]

plug said:

How is it that the driver of the white merc that caught fire, get 3 points and £100 fine after causing the road to be shut and all that work for the police.
And I get the same penalty for driving at 43mph in a 40mph zone on a dual carriageway?

Isn't the punishment for the offence, not the consequences of the offence?

Fascinating series. I have just all four episodes straight off on iplayer.

Very good programme, avoids all the commercial TV padding, ad breaks and re-caps after the breaks.

[The Mad Monk]

oobster said:

I had a BIT of sympathy with the Megane driver, only took himself out while pressing on in a performance car, but the sympathy went once it was obvious he didn't have a seatbelt on, and had plugged in a 'blank' to ensure the electronics wouldn't notify him constantly.

Was that the one where he had replaced the steering wheel with a non-airbag wheel?

[Daniel1]

Daft not to wear a seatbelt but seeing the blank i thought he might have had 4-points on. Pretty sure the steering wheel was bent though. I know you can bend cheap wheels by hand but if not it must have been damageed when his body hit it.

Daft not to wear a belt but doubly so if he was having a thrash.

[LosingGrip]

wjwren said:

Seatbelt thing is bizarre - maybe its the latest craze for the kids in not wearing one.

I had got into the bad habit of not wearing mine. Delivery driver, just round the corner etc. Then it was becoming the norm.

Coming back from the barbers that is a couple of miles away, I started driving home and made the decision to put it on. Thankfully I did. I got T-boned and pushed into a wall. Had to be cut out by fire. Three stitches in my head, bruised/cracked ribs. But could be a lot worse!

Needless to say, I now wear it all the time no matter how short a trip.

[The Mad Monk]

LosingGrip said:

Coming back from the barbers that is a couple of miles away, I started driving home and made the decision to put it on. Thankfully I did. I got T-boned and pushed into a wall. Had to be cut out by fire. Three stitches in my head, bruised/cracked ribs. But could be a lot worse!

If you had not stopped/paused/slowed/hesitated/ to put the belt on, then driven slightly faster/slower afterwards, you would have been in a slightly different place at the time of the crash and so there would have been no crash.

[LosingGrip]

The Mad Monk said:

If you had not stopped/paused/slowed/hesitated/ to put the belt on, then driven slightly faster/slower afterwards, you would have been in a slightly different place at the time of the crash and so there would have been no crash.

Yep! Number of things that could have changed what happened. But glad I did put it on!

[Chris410]

For those that saw series 1 of the BBC Wales Crash Detectives series last year, series 2 is about to start on BBC One Wales and iPlayer from next week (20:30 on Monday 20th Jan 2020) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b056g3

[Gameface]

Load of bks just putting it on BBC1 Wales.

[oobster]

Chris410 said:

For those that saw series 1 of the BBC Wales Crash Detectives series last year, series 2 is about to start on BBC One Wales and iPlayer from next week (20:30 on Monday 20th Jan 2020) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b056g3

Thank you for that.

[Zirconia]

Gameface said:

Load of bks just putting it on BBC1 Wales.

Local programming. It is on iPlayer later says the blurb.

I got caught in the rubber necking tailback for one that they covered last time. Didn't know at the time how serious it was. Queue was back to the Coldra roundabout and the accident east bound at Tredgear house.

[downthepub]

oobster said:

Chris410 said:

For those that saw series 1 of the BBC Wales Crash Detectives series last year, series 2 is about to start on BBC One Wales and iPlayer from next week (20:30 on Monday 20th Jan 2020) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b056g3

Thank you for that.

+1 the first series was one of the most interesting things on TV in 2018 (that long ago!).

[anonymous-user]

downthepub said:

+1 the first series was one of the most interesting things on TV in 2018 (that long ago!).

I never get that in the England BBC we don't get the Welsh and Scottish stuff, yes I know its on iplayer but you never know what is there. We should get it, the quality seems better than the English stuff..

[The Mad Monk]

Thesprucegoose said:

downthepub said:

+1 the first series was one of the most interesting things on TV in 2018 (that long ago!).

I never get that in the England BBC we don't get the Welsh and Scottish stuff, yes I know its on iplayer but you never know what is there. We should get it, the quality seems better than the English stuff..

Why is the England BBC not called the England BBC? It's just called 'The BBC'. It's not fair. We don't have our own channel in England.

[Eric Mc]

The old "English-British" dilemma.

It's actually a powerful force in a lot that has happened in the UK over the past few years.

[The Mad Monk]

Eric Mc said:

The old "English-British" dilemma.

It's actually a powerful force in a lot that has happened in the UK over the past few years.

What does that mean?

[Zirconia]

The Mad Monk said:

Why is the England BBC not called the England BBC? It's just called 'The BBC'. It's not fair. We don't have our own channel in England.

There are regional regions (?) opt outs, they have been happening for years. e.g.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/regions

[Eric Mc]

The Mad Monk said:

What does that mean?

For the past 20 years, England has struggled to place itself within a UK that is changing its nature significantly. The granting of devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should really have included provision for a devolved English assembly of some sort. Instead, politically, England has no specific authority running it. It has to work within the UK parliamentary process - which is less than satisfactory.

And, consequently, I think many people in England have felt a bit left out of the devolutionary process.

[eldar]

Eric Mc said:

For the past 20 years, England has struggled to place itself within a UK that is changing its nature significantly. The granting of devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should really have included provision for a devolved English assembly of some sort. Instead, politically, England has no specific authority running it. It has to work within the UK parliamentary process - which is less than satisfactory.

And, consequently, I think many people in England have felt a bit left out of the devolutionary process.

For example, the Scots preventing shops opening in Sunday in England in a fit of pique.

[The Mad Monk]

Eric Mc said:

The Mad Monk said:

What does that mean?

For the past 20 years, England has struggled to place itself within a UK that is changing its nature significantly. The granting of devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should really have included provision for a devolved English assembly of some sort. Instead, politically, England has no specific authority running it. It has to work within the UK parliamentary process - which is less than satisfactory.

And, consequently, I think many people in England have felt a bit left out of the devolutionary process.

Well, that's right. Except that, well, it's wrong.

England hasn't struggled to place itself etc. John Prescott? was it? - I am sure I will be corrected if I am wrong - tried to introduce regional government into England, but the yeomen were not interested. It was dropped after a while. So we bumble along as we have done for centuries.

You see, the difference between the English and the other nations that make up the UK, is that the English have this quiet self-confidence. they don't have to shout, wave flags, or other symbols, or wear funny clothes. They know they are good, so they don't have to shout about it.

e.g. More people in the world speak English than any other language.

[Eric Mc]

It's not just me that thinks like that.

The English are flounderiung around a bit regarding their national identity. The Scots, Welsh and Irish are far m,ore secure in what they think being Scots, Welsh and Irish are. The English aren't sure what being English is anymore. The problem is that the English decided centuries ago that being English wasn't what was important. What was important was being British. Now that the notion of being British is being diluted, it has left England and the English with a problem.

I am convinced that this has been a driving force for phenomenon such as Brexit etc.

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