The Crash Detectives BBC

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I'm not sure if this was broadcast nationally, but it's on the iPlayer.

I really enjoyed it and was really rooting for the Copper. It seems almost like a one-officer crusade to nick a nasty piece of work who... well, watch it for yourself if you haven't already.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43716912

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Just watched that now, useless sack of st wasn’t he. Just couldn’t be arsed to give the most basic of sts and took someone’s life, I’m sure the Judge gave little credit for his 11th hour confession.

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eybic said:

Any guesses on the MG story? I wonder if he was taking it on a test drive with a view to buying it or if it was his car that had been laid up?? Surely he didn't know there were literally no brakes and ½ of the rear suspension was hanging off?????? I'm guessing he suffered brain injuries being "too badly injured to be prosecuted"

Edited by eybic on Friday 27th April 08:19

I don't want to bad mouth my fellow countrymen, but 'The Valleys' has a hardcore of idiots who really don't give a single st about much -welding up a couple of suspension arms to save £100 of parts, of course! What you mean I could die? Someone was convicted a few years ago for amongst other things filling his brake reservoir with water, not by accident, but because it's cheaper init?! I've see tyres with less thread that what Lewis Hamilton uses, cars driving at night without headlamps, not no lights on, no no headlamps in the front of their car.

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Thanks for the nudge for the 3rd episode.

Tragic episode really.

Glad the kids were okay in the end.

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Fort Jefferson said:

oobster said:

Thanks OP, just watched two episodes and about to watch a third.

Very interesting program, well presented without being sensationalised.

This sums it up very well, I can't understand why it's only on BBC Wales and iPlayer.

There’s no great mystery to it, BBC Wales and Scotland make their own series to fill in a time-slot when there’s something on BBC One ‘England’ (I’ve no idea what’s on Monday nights at 8:30 in England) that forever reason isn’t broadcast here. If it gets a decent following it’ll be rebroadcast nationally and/or have another series that goes out Nationally.

I wonder if ‘Keeping Faith’ is national.

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Of course when I say “broadcast” here its a bit off a moot point as thanks to Freeview, Sky and Virgin we can watch any version of BBC One we want.

Unlike in the 90s when we had to wait till late in the evening to watch TFI Friday

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Megaflow said:

Zirconia said:

Those laser scanners are something else.
Hope the van driver manages to recover but what the show perhaps does not outright explain is the police have to face this on a daily basis, the body hidden by the car and obviously careful edit to avoid things both for the family and the show (the car chase shows miss out the dreadful bits).

Yep. I’ve got a mate who is a traffic copper. Two of his most memorable stories are being told he was not allowed to decide somebody was dead and he needed to proceed with first aid until paramedics arrived. When he asked for back up to help with the CPR because he his was 20 feet from his body, they decided he was qualified enough to declare him dead. The other was a guy who decided to overtake a truck in a *really* stupid place and killed himself. The actual mechanism of his death was impaling himself on his rear view mirror.

He has a very dark sense of humour, but it is how they cope with it.

Yep, my Wife was similar - District Nurse. She could spend months, even years getting to know someone in their home, sometimes she'd be the only person they'd see all day. The vast majority of her patients were either end-of-life (old) or Palliative (dying, usually cancer).

All day, every day just watching people wither and die and some of them far too young with families desperate for hope. To me at least the worse part of her job was family members crying or screaming for someone to help them, few people can accept someone is dying until they die, how do you tell someone "the only thing I can do now is give them huge doses of Heroin until they're unconscious for the final days of their life"?

Anyway, I don't bother moaning about work at home. Tales of woe at the IT Support office don't really register.

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I’m pretty sure that Range Rover crashed on the same bend as a young Guy in a Mercedes in the first series.

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oobster said:

News story on the Range Rover incident:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/driv...

Yep, same road, same bend as the guy in the white Mercedes in the first series.

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Watched it last night, I'm glad I spotted this thread or I would have missed it.

It really hit home, I drive that stretch of the M4 at least once a week, taking the same route at the CRV took from my office to one of the places I ride my bike at the exit the accident happened. You need to have your wits about you, they're both really busy junctions and people tend to drive very aggressively between them, trying to get home or just because it's busy, and then 'suddenly' finding themselves facing stationary traffic at 70/80/90mph with the next guy on your back bumper isn't unusual.

The victim didn't stand a chance really, those Myvi's were tiny little tin cans.

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Ep2 was crazy and sad.

The state of the driver, he looked completely out of it, pretty much laying in the drivers seat. All over the road, overtaking on blind bends over double-white lines.

Sadly he's the sort of sub-human scum that will be bleeting that it was the other drivers fault blah blah blah, he'll be back behind the wheel, seatbelt behind the seat drunk and high as soon as he's out.

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oobster said:

Looks like it could be a particularly upsetting one this evening - 2 kids:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67218612

Agonising viewing.

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Alickadoo said:

Randy Winkman said:

mrmistoffelees said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67218612

I hope the parents are really, really happy.

Why have all the children got double barrelled first names?

Some people like double barrelled Christian names. Let’s leave it there shall we?