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I'm Sophie Morgan, and I like to live life to the full. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:06 | |
Five seconds, here we go. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
Whether it be TV work, skydiving or modelling, I don't let the fact I'm paralysed hold me back. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:15 | |
But I wasn't born disabled. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Aged 18, I was a total wild child, and my driving was just as crazy. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:25 | |
Six months after passing my driving test, I was speeding, | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
misjudged a corner, and the car flipped over. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
I woke up in hospital, confused and completely terrified. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
It was then that I realised that I couldn't feel my body | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
and that I was paralysed. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
What is it that turns people like me into maniacs | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
when we first get behind the wheel... | 0:00:48 | 0:00:49 | |
You can't stay at 30 mile an hour and that. It's just... | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
It's such a boring speed. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
..and has made traffic collisions | 0:00:56 | 0:00:57 | |
the single biggest killer of young people? | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
I feel like I've been transported into another world | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
where, like, rules and fear don't exist. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
'A fifth of all new drivers will have a serious collision | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
'in their first year driving.' | 0:01:10 | 0:01:11 | |
Oh, my God, look how fast he's going! | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
To find out why, I'll meet people who've had an accident | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
change their lives forever... | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
She is very, very poorly. Shattered spine. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
19 years old. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
..as they fight for justice, or to survive. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
I'll discover what it means to be responsible for the death | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
of someone you love. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
A lot of people call me a murderer. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
You just want to scream that you never meant to do it. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
I'll be there as one of football's brightest new stars faces up | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
to his actions behind the wheel. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:48 | |
Now I think about it, I wish I'd never drive...drove. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
Really? | 0:01:52 | 0:01:53 | |
'How do we stop a driving licence becoming a licence to kill?' | 0:01:53 | 0:01:58 | |
That car... Couldn't stand a chance in that car. Oh, my God. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:03 | |
It's Saturday night and the crowds are out enjoying themselves. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
But what's about to happen will change the lives | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
of three teenagers forever. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
One is an 18-year-old Mercedes driver, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
just leaving a Manchester restaurant. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
Three miles away, 17-year-old student Harveen Singh | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
is with his family at evening prayers. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
In the next 30 seconds, two people will die | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
and two will be seriously injured, and it's all captured on CCTV. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
REPORTER: A man and a woman died | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
when a Mercedes was involved in a collision with a Nissan Micra... | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
Her two teenage sons were also injured, one of them critically. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
A man was arrested at the scene. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
Every day, 2,000 people are injured on British roads, | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
and five of them die. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
Harveen's mum and uncle were killed in this crash. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
He and his younger brother are now orphans. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
The Mercedes driver who crashed into them is an 18-year-old, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
who's only been driving a few months, | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
just like me when I had my crash. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
What made him drive so fast, | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
especially when he's got so much to lose? | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
Courtney Meppen-Walter, from Bury, play anywhere on the left. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
Courtney Meppen-Walter is a hot shot footballer, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
tipped as the next big star. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
He's been playing football for Manchester City | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
since the age of nine and is captain of England's under-18 squad. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:18 | |
And now he's responsible for the deaths of two people. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
Hi, it's Sophie, I'm here to see Greg Entwistle. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
'Like Courtney, I was driving too fast when I had my accident. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
'It's a miracle I didn't kill anyone. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
'When you're the only victim, the police don't get involved. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
'But this time, it's different.' | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
What time of night is this? | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
Ten past ten in the evening on Saturday evening. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
What would be the speed limit round here? | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
-It's 30 miles an hour. -30. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:45 | |
-This is the Mercedes. -Whoa! | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
Look how fast he's going! | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
This is the vehicle that the Singh family were travelling in. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:57 | |
He's waiting for a gap in the traffic. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
Oh, my God! That's horrendous! | 0:04:59 | 0:05:04 | |
Oh, no. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:05 | |
Oh, look, and there he is, he's got out. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
What do you know about the driver of the Mercedes? | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
He'd been out for an evening with his friends. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
Erm, he passed his test 11 months before that. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
As a young driver, he's driving a very powerful car. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
He's pretty inexperienced. Most 18-year-olds are probably | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
more likely to be found in the Nissan than in the Mercedes. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
He had no idea that his actions are going to just about ruin | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
-so many people's lives. -Including his own. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
Absolutely. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:42 | |
-There's no winners out of any of this. -No. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
As well as this other family, his life has changed completely as well. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Courtney is currently on bail, and will reappear | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
at the police station in a few weeks. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
In that time, the Singh family will try and come to terms | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
with the devastating effects of Courtney's driving. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
Harveen Singh was the only one to walk away from the car. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:13 | |
With his mother and uncle dead, and his brother on the critical list, | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
he and the family want to understand exactly what happened. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
So they've asked to see the wreckage of the car. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
SOBBING AND GROANING | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
Look at the car, look at that. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
'Harveen's Uncle Gawa lost his brother and sister in the crash...' | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
30 zone, look at that. How can people be surviving that? | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
'..and his aunt lost her husband.' | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
That is just devastating. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
I mean, that car... | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
Couldn't stand a chance in that car. Oh, my God. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
To imagine the people that were actually in that car. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
The human beings, and you just...you look at the car and it's just... | 0:07:10 | 0:07:15 | |
It's haunted, it's horrible. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
It's too much for Harveen to take in. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
It's really hard to explain a single word. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
Because I want to forget everything, | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
but it's really hard because when I go to sleep, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
I'm thinking about my mum. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
Did they tell you that you'd been hit by a young person? | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
Yeah, when I'm discharged from hospital, | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
so they tell me that a footballer do it. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
And it's like...a footballer, so I think I can't get justice now, | 0:07:45 | 0:07:50 | |
-cos a City footballer, he can buy a big solicitor. -Mmm. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:55 | |
If he got a prison... Got only ten years. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
I lost my whole family. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:01 | |
How are you going to cope? | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
I don't have any words, don't have any words to explain. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
I can understand why Harveen is feeling such a mixture of emotions. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
But the police will stick to the facts, | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
and the CCTV clearly shows Courtney travelling much faster | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
than the other cars on the road. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
Speed is a factor in a quarter of fatal road traffic collisions. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
For many of us, me included, from the moment we pass our test, | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
we look forward to the feeling of power under our foot. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
And for some people, speed is the only reason to drive. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
This looks interesting - car cruise. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
Across the country, large groups regularly meet up | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
to show off their super-charged cars and bikes. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
Many go for one purpose - to race. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
They do it on public roads that are normally quiet, | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
but at weekends turn into an illegal race track. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
Those who take part don't seem to care about breaking the law | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
or anyone's safety. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
"It's pointless meeting there, | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
"police are all over it as they have been for the last year." | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
"Police blocked everyone in and handed every single person | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
"a section 59." | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
"My mate's MG got taken off him." | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
Well, it's obviously really illegal | 0:09:14 | 0:09:16 | |
because they're... All the messages are panicking about | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
whether police are going to come. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:20 | |
"We want to keep one of Manchester's biggest car meets going." | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
"Who's going to be attending the new location this Friday?" | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
I want to go along, to try and understand | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
these drivers' need for speed. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
When I was 18, would I have been classed as a speed freak? | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
One thing I do know - if I ever was addicted to speed, | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
I'm certainly not now. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:47 | |
I am really nervous about this | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
because, ever since my accident, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
I've...I've always been scared of speeding, | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
and there's going to be a lot of speeding around! | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
It's crazy! | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
This is madness. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
I feel like I've been transported into another world | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
where, like, rules and fear don't exist. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
A little bit! | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
It was hard to hear above the noise, | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
but I want to know what brings people to these events. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
What about you guys? Do you race or just watching? | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
I used to have a bit of a play but I don't now. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
Why not? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:39 | |
I've got a police mark on my car and a few section 59s | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
and my licence revoked. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:42 | |
-Speed's like a drug, innit, really? -Yeah. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
You can't stay at 30 mile an hour and that. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
It's such a boring speed! | 0:10:50 | 0:10:51 | |
-You just went for a race? -Yeah. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
It gets your adrenaline rush going. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
It doesn't scare me because it's never happened to me. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
Do you understand where I'm coming from? | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
I don't think anybody realises until it happens to themselves. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:11 | |
I wasn't like this, I wasn't like, you know, pushing the limits. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
I was just an inexperienced kid driving badly. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
This is different, you know, this is a different environment. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
It scares me. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
'Not everyone here tonight has come to race.' | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
-There's dickheads out tonight. -Really? | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
-Yeah, there's knobheads out tonight. -You can see them flying up and down. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
Just cos you come down, doesn't mean you're going to be... | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
leathering it up and down. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:32 | |
We've been stood here looking at the people | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
-driving past going... -Hmm, yeah. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
As the night wears on, and with no sign of the police, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
some drivers take more and more risks. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
They're behaving as if they're indestructible. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
It's like their brain ignores danger. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
Get out the road! | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
Someone's going to get hurt on a bike, I'll tell you that! | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
-They're dangerous. -So you think bikes are more dangerous? | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
Yeah, course. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:00 | |
-Are you not scared of having an accident? -No. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
What if you weren't killed but you were in a state | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
where you couldn't ride a bike again? | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
You were sat in a wheelchair, or you lost a limb or worse? | 0:12:08 | 0:12:12 | |
I'd rather just be killed than be, like, paralysed or something. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
You'd rather be killed than paralysed? | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
-I was paralysed in a car accident, yeah? -Yeah. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
So you're saying... but that doesn't bother you? | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
You're not thinking about that? | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
Be awful, that. It would be awful. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
I'd probably take my life. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
-You'd kill yourself? -Yeah, I wouldn't want to be like that. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:32 | |
'They're just annoying me now.' | 0:12:32 | 0:12:33 | |
That slap in the face when life happens hasn't happened to them. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
But I fear for the day | 0:12:37 | 0:12:38 | |
when they have to face the consequences of just having fun. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:42 | |
I'm relieved the night passes without disaster. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
But only 20 miles away, the same week, | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
another cruise ends very differently. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
Two bikes have been involved in a collision, near Wigan, | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
and one rider is dead. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
The yellow bike you see on the road, the witnesses, they've said | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
they couldn't believe the speed he was going. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
For some reason, we're not quite sure at the moment, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
he's struck this motorcycle here, there's been a massive impact | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
between the two and unfortunately a male's died. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
And from what I understand, it's the male on the Hornet who's died. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
The accident has claimed the life of 18-year-old Ryan Smith. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
The other victim, Leah Davis, has been taken to hospital. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
Leah Davis. She's very, very poorly. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:42 | |
-OK. -Shattered spine. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
19 years old. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
Ryan may have only had his bike licence for a year, | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
but he had a established himself as a top rider in the biking community. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
I think to keep Ryan off motorbikes, I think | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
you'd have had to take his legs off and his arms off! | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
Because that's the way he just was. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
Dead lovable, you know what I mean? That's how he was. A great son. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:31 | |
He was still a baby to me. He never grew up. He never grew up. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:38 | |
He was like our gentle giant, really, wasn't he? | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
That's what everybody called him - big, friendly giant. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
There's a picture of him up there, | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
sat on the British Grand Prix champion's bike, seven year old. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:51 | |
He had the bug. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:52 | |
I know a lot of families would probably say, well, should you have | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
let him have that bike? Well, yeah, I should because that was his life. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
He loved bikes. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:03 | |
And I think it'd be cruel to take... Well, I'd have took his life away. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:08 | |
If I'd took his bike away, I'd have took his life away. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
-You find, like, young girls love horses. -Yeah. -What do you do? | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
Do you take the horse off them because it's thrown her off twice? | 0:15:14 | 0:15:18 | |
You're always going to have people with a passion for bikes | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
and it doesn't leave them. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
It's such...so hard. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:27 | |
Christ, look at the bikes. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
It always shocks me when you look at the images of the machinery | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
when it's damaged and you think about the machinery | 0:15:34 | 0:15:37 | |
being completely written off and broken to pieces, | 0:15:37 | 0:15:39 | |
and just think about... and that's metal! | 0:15:39 | 0:15:41 | |
You think of the bodies that were involved in that. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
We don't stand a chance! | 0:15:44 | 0:15:45 | |
'The police are trying to piece together what happened.' | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
-This is Ryan, lifts up. -Yep. -Lifts up, lifts up. -Yeah. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:55 | |
Oh, God. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:56 | |
Yeah, that's not 30 mph. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
God, that's fast. | 0:15:58 | 0:15:59 | |
In his showing off of his skills, it's gone wrong. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
It was not the place to do it. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:04 | |
You cannot predict what's going to happen in a public place. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
You have a witness saying that Leah has pulled out into the junction? | 0:16:07 | 0:16:12 | |
Undoubtedly, Leah is in the main carriageway. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
She's pulled out into the carriageway, ahead of a vehicle. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
That asks the question, | 0:16:18 | 0:16:19 | |
was she driving as good as she's expected to do? | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
He's travelling at such speed. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
Very much so. This is the thing about Leah's driving - | 0:16:23 | 0:16:25 | |
would a reasonable and competent driver | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
have expected something like that to happen? | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
I know that there's questions to be asked | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
about both persons' standard of driving. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
There's a combination of Leah's actions | 0:16:35 | 0:16:37 | |
and Ryan's actions that have led to this. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
I always think scenes of accidents are such haunting places. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:48 | |
Somewhere that, to most of us, would just be a road | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
can become the most significant place in a family's life. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:55 | |
This spot is already so important to Ryan's family and friends. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
One in three of all people who die on the roads is under 25. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:09 | |
Experts say that's because younger drivers are more likely | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
to take risks. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
But with less experience, they're less able to cope | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
with those risks, especially if something goes wrong. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
It's been a week since footballer Courtney Meppen-Walter's car | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
collided with the Singh family's. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
Harveen's mother and uncle were killed, | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
and his brother Ajmit suffered severe head and brain injuries. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:43 | |
Doctors don't yet know if he can recover. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:46 | |
We've kept him extremely well-sedated, and what we're | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
trying to do now is to slowly wake him from that sedation. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
However, when you're sedated, it doesn't tell you what's actually | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
going on underneath. It's like the current in a river. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
You know what's on top, might look calm, | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
but you've no idea what's going on underneath. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
He's sustained a significant injury. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
Anyone in intensive care is touch and go. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
Can he hear us? | 0:18:07 | 0:18:08 | |
I always assume somebody can hear. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:09 | |
I always assume the last sense anybody loses is their hearing, | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
and it might not be the case. It might just be me | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
making it easier for me. Otherwise you end up talking to yourself. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
Ajmit doesn't know his mum and uncle are dead, | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
and today they're being buried. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
At 16, Harveen is now head of the family, | 0:18:40 | 0:18:44 | |
as their dad was murdered by the Taliban in their native Afghanistan. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
They fled to Britain just a year ago, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
but that new life is now in tatters. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
The 18-year-old whose car ploughed into them | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
also faces an uncertain future. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
But while he waits to see if he'll be charged, | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
Courtney Meppen-Walter has made his first substitute | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
appearance for the Manchester City first team. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
He tweeted how proud he was. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
"Best day of whole life being on the bench | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
"for the first team in the Champions League game against Ajax." | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
This is someone who should be starting a successful career, | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
but instead he could be facing the end of it. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
Courtney's next appearance is at a police station custody suite. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:39 | |
Up to now, he's believed that the key factor in the crash | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
was the Singh family pulling out in front of him. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
But today he's going to be faced with the reality of what happened. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:50 | |
I am authorised to take you into the police station, | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
so you can be questioned about the offence you've been arrested for. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
-Do you understand that? -Yeah. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:56 | |
-Are you fit and well? -Yep. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
-Anything that's going to affect your stay here in custody? -No. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
The police treat him like any other criminal, but it isn't every day | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
they have someone tipped as a future football superstar in their station. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
Courtney is about to be shown the CCTV footage for the first time. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:15 | |
He'll be told his Mercedes was travelling at 56 mph - | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
almost twice the speed limit. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
'It will change everything he previously thought | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
'about that night.' | 0:21:26 | 0:21:27 | |
He did refer to it as an accident, didn't he? | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
It wasn't an accident! | 0:21:29 | 0:21:30 | |
-There are actions... -It's avoidable. -Exactly, it's avoidable. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
Had he not being doing what he was doing on that night, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
it's unlikely that we'd all be sat here today. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
I mean, it's got to be too overwhelming for a young guy | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
-to actually fathom, hasn't it? -Absolutely. Yeah, for anybody. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
Yeah, I mean, to actually go to sleep with that, that he's taken | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
someone's mum and someone's family away from them. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
Put yourself in their place, it could be me | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
-or that could be my brother, sister, father. -Yeah, yeah. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
And it really could with driving. They could just be driving too fast | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
and boom, look at what's happened. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
'I'm not sure how many of us | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
'can honestly say that we always drive at the speed limit.' | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
In fact, road safety charity Brake suggests | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
young drivers are more likely to regularly exceed it, | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
and there's even a scientific reason for that, | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
because the part of the brain that controls taking risks | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
doesn't usually develop until the mid 20s. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
But in my case, | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
it was something else that changed my attitude to speed. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
My accident. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:39 | |
And though I'm living with the results of that, believe me | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
when I say I feel lucky next to Courtney. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:47 | |
I would always choose to damage myself than live with | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
the guilt of taking a life, | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
but it easily could have been different. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
It's nearly ten years since my crash, | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
and it's time to face my demons. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
I'm back in Scotland where it happened, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
and I'm meeting the people I could have killed. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
We haven't talked about it since that night. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
Coming back to this place is very significant for me, | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
because it's really where my old life ended and a new life started. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:19 | |
I re-live this, this journey, in my dreams sometimes. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:24 | |
It's something that is with me for life. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
It's the image of this route, | 0:23:28 | 0:23:29 | |
of this area, and I never really know how I feel. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:33 | |
The main difference, I think, is that when I come up here, | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
I'm coming up here now as someone who's in a wheelchair. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:40 | |
And I look back at the girl I was then, wandering round, | 0:23:40 | 0:23:44 | |
walking about, and how little I knew how things were going to be affected | 0:23:44 | 0:23:48 | |
and what was going to happen | 0:23:48 | 0:23:49 | |
and the changes that were going to take place. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
So this is...this is where I took my last steps ever. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:59 | |
It was here in 2003 that we were out celebrating our A level results. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:07 | |
We all knew it was the end of an era, | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
but for me it was the end of one life. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
I remember how I was feeling at the time. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
Full of excitement because it was basically the next start... | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
the start of my new life, out of school, off to uni. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:24 | |
The reality was that | 0:24:24 | 0:24:25 | |
that was not going to happen and it was going to change. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
CAR HORN BEEPS | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
'The crash happened as we drove back to a friend's house. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
'I had only driven half a mile.' | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
Isn't there meant to be a fence here? | 0:24:37 | 0:24:39 | |
-There was but it's gone. -But they still haven't fixed it? | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
They haven't fixed the road either. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:45 | |
-They can't fix the road, though. -There's marks on the road, yeah. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
Do you remember how fast I was driving? | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
I think it was maybe, like, over 70. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
-You took the corner too wide and then, er... -Shot across. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:58 | |
Shot across and then at the verge, lifted the car. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
And then I put my head through a window. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
-Really? -You were hysterical. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
You kept saying, "I can't feel my legs, I can't feel my legs." | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
So I thought, "Oh, it's pretty bad." | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
The fire brigade were there when we left, but they, er... They hadn't | 0:25:18 | 0:25:23 | |
even... I don't think they'd even worked out | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
how they were going to get Sophie out by the time we left. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:30 | |
The minute I start thinking about how it affects the people that | 0:25:34 | 0:25:38 | |
I have in my life, it just... It makes me very, very upset, | 0:25:38 | 0:25:44 | |
cos it's...it was my fault. Everything was my fault. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
And my friends have had to live with what I did | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
and I don't think I'll ever find peace with that. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
I was angry with you because you endangered our lives. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:58 | |
There was anger... I think there was upset. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
I think that's absolutely fair enough that any of you | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
would get angry. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:05 | |
If I had been you, and you'd have crashed that car, | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
despite anything that you'd done to yourself, I'd be furious with you. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
I hate thinking about the fact that I've done lasting damage to any | 0:26:11 | 0:26:16 | |
of you. I'm glad that it was just me, and in many ways I think | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
I deserve what happened to me because I was driving like an idiot. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:24 | |
I just thought that the rules didn't apply to me | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
and that I could make my own rules, and I could do my own thing. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:30 | |
Nowadays I think of that 18-year-old me with a shudder, | 0:26:35 | 0:26:39 | |
and I think that she shouldn't have been allowed on the road. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:43 | |
26,500 drivers under 25 are disqualified every year, | 0:26:43 | 0:26:49 | |
and there are some who haven't just made careless mistakes | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
when they're driving. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:53 | |
They're deliberately putting people's lives in danger. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
It was one of those that biker Chris Sinclair came across | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
one evening when he was heading home from work. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
20-year-old Nikash Sultan - | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
a petrol head who spent hundreds of hours | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
and thousands of pounds modifying his car, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
and what he really liked to do in them was race... | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
..wherever he felt like it, | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
sometimes filmed by his mates. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
The police took me down the route Sultan travelled when he decided | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
to race another driver, someone he'd never even met - Umair Qureshi. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:29 | |
Sultan's vehicle pulls up first here at these lights | 0:27:31 | 0:27:34 | |
just by the Natwest bank. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
And then Qureshi's Mini pulls up second. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
Sultan's took issue with Qureshi driving the car. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
-Qureshi just took issue with him driving his car. -Hmm. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
They now both want to out-perform each other | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
and demonstrate who's the best driver. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
Our witness describes that he sees the cars coming | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
in his rear-view mirror and they're already making use | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
-of this red hashed markings here. -Really? | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
And he describes the cars as nearly having a collision | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
with this central island, and he says they're using both sides | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
of the road to make progress down this road. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
Now the last sighting we get before the collision is from here. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
-There's two cameras on that building. -Yeah. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
At this point we've got them at 70 miles an hour. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
70 miles an hour, here?! | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
Yeah. A Honda mounts the pavement, drives up the pavement, | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
and across straight into the opposing carriageway just where | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
-that silver car is now... -Yeah. -..and he hit Chris head on. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
22-year-old Chris was riding in the opposite direction | 0:28:31 | 0:28:35 | |
when Sultan's car crashed into him at 70 mph. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
The witnesses described Chris as going 30 feet in the air. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
Some describe him as going three-quarters of the height | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
of a lamp-post, and they see his body crash to the ground. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
At what point did the balance tip that winning that race was more | 0:28:53 | 0:28:57 | |
important than everybody's lives? | 0:28:57 | 0:28:59 | |
The crash happened four months ago, | 0:29:03 | 0:29:05 | |
and while the drivers wait to appear in court, | 0:29:05 | 0:29:08 | |
Chris has spent all that time in hospital. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:10 | |
He's got multiple injuries, | 0:29:10 | 0:29:12 | |
and has been wearing a metal halo to try and heal his broken neck. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:16 | |
But it's causing him great pain. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
We've got a couple of pics of your neck to do if that's all right? | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
Open your mouth as wide as you can. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
-Right, Christopher. All done. -Spot on. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:34 | |
In a lot of pain, a lot of pain. | 0:29:34 | 0:29:37 | |
The X-ray confirms that Chris's neck is healing | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 | |
and the halo can be removed. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:48 | |
Jesus! | 0:29:50 | 0:29:51 | |
'But Chris will spend months going in and out of hospital, | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
'something I'm all too familiar with.' | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
How are you feeling now? | 0:30:05 | 0:30:06 | |
Same, to be honest, not... slow recovery, | 0:30:06 | 0:30:09 | |
erm, but I am pleased I've had the halo took off | 0:30:09 | 0:30:14 | |
and I'm in a lot less pain with my head-wise. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:18 | |
Is that the first time you've been in an accident like that? | 0:30:18 | 0:30:21 | |
-Yeah. -Yeah. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
You know what dangers you take when you jump on a bike, | 0:30:23 | 0:30:26 | |
but you don't think someone's going to hit you at that high speed. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:31 | |
The guys that hit you, are you angry with them? | 0:30:31 | 0:30:33 | |
Yeah, furious. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:37 | |
Yeah. If I ever get hold of them, | 0:30:37 | 0:30:40 | |
erm, you know, I'd...I'd... | 0:30:40 | 0:30:44 | |
I'd do something I don't want to do, to be honest. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:49 | |
When they do go to court and they do go to prison, you know, | 0:30:49 | 0:30:53 | |
I'll feel a bit better about that, | 0:30:53 | 0:30:55 | |
but it still won't change the fact that, you know, I nearly died. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
Considering the speed Sultan's car was travelling | 0:31:03 | 0:31:05 | |
when he hit Chris, it's amazing he's still alive, | 0:31:05 | 0:31:09 | |
but he's looking at a long and difficult recovery. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:12 | |
I was in hospital for four months, and was put into an induced coma | 0:31:16 | 0:31:19 | |
as a last ditch attempt to stop my brain swelling. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
In Salford, doctors did the same with Ajmit Singh. | 0:31:26 | 0:31:29 | |
Now they've woken him up, | 0:31:29 | 0:31:31 | |
but, so far, they don't know if the collision has caused lasting damage. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:35 | |
Today his family are hoping to get an update on his condition, | 0:31:37 | 0:31:41 | |
and Harveen is hoping his brother will respond | 0:31:41 | 0:31:43 | |
to the sound of his voice calling his nickname. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:47 | |
Ajmit is conscious, but isn't responding to stimulation. | 0:32:10 | 0:32:13 | |
Harveen fears that his brother will never recover. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
But he knows that Ajmit is a fighter. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
It's working. Ajmit has heard his brother's voice. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
This is his first response since the accident, | 0:33:15 | 0:33:17 | |
and it's a breakthrough moment for the family. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:20 | |
Have the doctors said what they hope will be for him, the prognosis? | 0:33:25 | 0:33:29 | |
Yeah, they said he's going great, and maybe in future he can walk | 0:33:29 | 0:33:35 | |
but they're not sure, they're not sure. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
If he can try, then maybe he can talk. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:41 | |
He's still got a long way to go, hasn't he? | 0:33:41 | 0:33:43 | |
-Yeah, the doctor said maybe he could take one year or something. -Yeah. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:48 | |
-Long. -Long, long time. -Yeah. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
Ajmit is starting to make progress. | 0:33:53 | 0:33:57 | |
But in another ward in the hospital | 0:33:57 | 0:33:59 | |
lies another victim of a road traffic collision. | 0:33:59 | 0:34:02 | |
A week after being left in a coma in the crash that killed | 0:34:02 | 0:34:05 | |
Ryan Smith, Leah Davies's fight for survival is coming to an end. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:09 | |
# If I lay here | 0:34:10 | 0:34:15 | |
# If I just lay here... # | 0:34:15 | 0:34:19 | |
Leah's twin Sarah kept a journal in the hope that she could share it | 0:34:19 | 0:34:23 | |
with her sister one day. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:24 | |
"We finally got into Resuscitation to see you. | 0:34:24 | 0:34:27 | |
"I was shocked at what you looked like. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:29 | |
"You were swollen and bruised, it didn't look like you. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:32 | |
"It just hit me hard. We got told you had severe back injuries. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:36 | |
"Leg and arm and head injuries also. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:38 | |
"This was my worst nightmare. | 0:34:38 | 0:34:40 | |
"I felt like I was dreaming and I couldn't wake myself up." | 0:34:40 | 0:34:43 | |
How was Leah when you first saw her? | 0:34:43 | 0:34:45 | |
You couldn't hug her, and you couldn't... | 0:34:45 | 0:34:50 | |
You couldn't kiss her properly. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:52 | |
All you could do is stroke her hand. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
We talked to her, we put photographs up in the room | 0:34:54 | 0:34:56 | |
so that the nurses knew what she looked like. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
The Leah that was lay there on the bed, she was a broken person | 0:34:59 | 0:35:04 | |
so we wanted to let them know that this is who Leah is. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:10 | |
This is who Leah was. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:12 | |
"I was in your room with you on my own for a while | 0:35:12 | 0:35:15 | |
"and I played your song to you. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:17 | |
"I sang every word to you. I know you could hear me. | 0:35:17 | 0:35:20 | |
"I smell your hair and run my fingers through it. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:23 | |
"Everything about you is so beautiful and always will be." | 0:35:24 | 0:35:27 | |
I didn't want to be there when they turned the machines off | 0:35:30 | 0:35:36 | |
cos I don't think I could see her like that, but then, erm, | 0:35:36 | 0:35:41 | |
I've said from the beginning, really, that we came in the world together | 0:35:41 | 0:35:46 | |
so we should have gone out together. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:48 | |
Until you're a twin, you won't realise what it's like. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:58 | |
It's just different from a sister or a brother or whatever. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:02 | |
Like, it's a different love what you have for your parents | 0:36:02 | 0:36:04 | |
than you do with your sister and then it's just more intense. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:09 | |
That's the only thing I can describe it as, really, is intense. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:14 | |
You seem really strong about it. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:16 | |
-Sometimes I'm not. -No, I bet you're not. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:18 | |
I know you have to cry about it but... | 0:36:18 | 0:36:20 | |
-I don't think it's my time to cry yet, really. -Really? | 0:36:20 | 0:36:22 | |
Yeah, cos I've not let go of her yet, really, so... | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
Cos I'm still talking to her. And I sound like a mental person! | 0:36:25 | 0:36:30 | |
But, like, I think everyone should have a journal. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:34 | |
Leah and Ryan's deaths have bitterly divided some of their friends, | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
with both sides blaming the other for the crash. | 0:36:37 | 0:36:40 | |
It's the after stuff, the gossip, people getting involved. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:45 | |
Grieving does horrible things. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:47 | |
It does nice things and horrible things, | 0:36:47 | 0:36:49 | |
and people don't think in their right mind. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:51 | |
I think if didn't have all this animosity, we could have pulled | 0:36:51 | 0:36:55 | |
together, and no-one needs to have all this. | 0:36:55 | 0:37:00 | |
'In coroner's court, | 0:37:00 | 0:37:01 | |
'neither driver was held accountable for the crash, | 0:37:01 | 0:37:04 | |
'but I can understand why families who've lost | 0:37:04 | 0:37:06 | |
'someone in a collision might want to find someone to blame. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:10 | |
'I can't imagine, though, what it must feel like to be the person | 0:37:10 | 0:37:13 | |
'responsible for a death. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:15 | |
'And how much worse that must be if you've killed someone you love.' | 0:37:15 | 0:37:18 | |
I'm in the middle of talking, and then somebody gets a picture. | 0:37:18 | 0:37:21 | |
-Not your best shot! -No, it's not! | 0:37:21 | 0:37:23 | |
'Jayme Mann and Lee Dipino had been best friends for years | 0:37:23 | 0:37:27 | |
'before starting a relationship and planning a future together.' | 0:37:27 | 0:37:32 | |
We were really happy | 0:37:32 | 0:37:33 | |
and things were just going how we wanted them to. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:37 | |
And then it all... | 0:37:37 | 0:37:39 | |
-Went wrong? -Very wrong. | 0:37:39 | 0:37:41 | |
Jayme had only been driving for six months | 0:37:47 | 0:37:50 | |
when she drove them home one night. | 0:37:50 | 0:37:52 | |
So this is where you had your accident? Yeah. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:56 | |
I remember coming round that corner there, | 0:37:57 | 0:38:00 | |
then I felt the car come out at the back, | 0:38:00 | 0:38:05 | |
and then I just didn't know what to do to get back from that. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:09 | |
-Really? So you felt like the car had lost control? -Yeah. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:11 | |
And then you didn't know how to steer it back into control? | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
Yeah, yeah. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:15 | |
I can't remember seeing it, but I can hear it all. | 0:38:15 | 0:38:19 | |
I can still hear it now. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
Going into the first tree, | 0:38:21 | 0:38:23 | |
and then after that I just remember waking up. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:25 | |
Sorry. | 0:38:26 | 0:38:28 | |
'It's difficult to know exactly what happened or why Jayme lost control. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:32 | |
'There's no CCTV on roads like this one. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:36 | |
'Jayme was shaken but not badly injured, | 0:38:36 | 0:38:39 | |
'but Lee was instantly killed.' | 0:38:39 | 0:38:41 | |
Did you know that Lee was dead? | 0:38:41 | 0:38:44 | |
Yeah. You could just tell that nobody was there. | 0:38:44 | 0:38:49 | |
Knowing you're responsible for that happening to somebody | 0:38:51 | 0:38:56 | |
is the worst thing ever. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:58 | |
'Before the collision, the couple had shared a large group of friends, | 0:39:00 | 0:39:04 | |
'but Lee's death changed all that.' | 0:39:04 | 0:39:07 | |
A lot of people are quite nasty towards me now. | 0:39:07 | 0:39:12 | |
What did they say? | 0:39:12 | 0:39:13 | |
-Called me a murderer and stuff. -People called you a murderer? -Yes. | 0:39:13 | 0:39:19 | |
You just sometimes want to scream and say that you never meant to do it. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:25 | |
In court, Lee's family had hoped that Jayme would go to prison, | 0:39:32 | 0:39:36 | |
but the judge blamed "a momentary lack of attention", | 0:39:36 | 0:39:39 | |
and decided she'd suffered enough, so she didn't go to jail. | 0:39:39 | 0:39:43 | |
But two years after the accident, | 0:39:43 | 0:39:46 | |
I get the feeling that she's really serving a life sentence. | 0:39:46 | 0:39:49 | |
What's happened to Jayme | 0:39:49 | 0:39:51 | |
is one of the saddest things that could happen to anybody. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:54 | |
To have killed the person that you love and to be responsible | 0:39:54 | 0:39:59 | |
for that and have to live with that for the rest of your life. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:01 | |
How does anybody recover from that? | 0:40:01 | 0:40:03 | |
If you survive a car accident, I don't think people realise | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
just how life-destroying it is. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:09 | |
And even if you do walk away, you never walk away. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:12 | |
You carry that forever. | 0:40:12 | 0:40:14 | |
When I next visit Chris Sinclair, | 0:40:24 | 0:40:26 | |
hit on his bike by 70-miles-an-hour road-racer Nikash Sultan, | 0:40:26 | 0:40:30 | |
he's doing well with his physical recovery, | 0:40:30 | 0:40:33 | |
but seeking justice is very much on his mind. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:36 | |
Mr Sultan has pleaded guilty. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:39 | |
As a result of those admissions, we charged him with dangerous driving. | 0:40:39 | 0:40:42 | |
That is the most serious driving offence, without causing | 0:40:42 | 0:40:46 | |
a death, that the police can charge somebody with. | 0:40:46 | 0:40:49 | |
I'll be completely honest with you today. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:51 | |
I need to prepare you for the sentencing at the crown court. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:55 | |
The maximum sentence for dangerous driving is two years' imprisonment. | 0:40:55 | 0:40:59 | |
It's something that neither you or I have any control over. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:05 | |
Doctors have said it's going to take a year for me | 0:41:05 | 0:41:08 | |
to get back to work, and even then I won't even be fully healed, | 0:41:08 | 0:41:12 | |
and he'll probably be out of prison by then. | 0:41:12 | 0:41:15 | |
There's no other word to describe it except ridiculous. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:20 | |
It's something that we struggle to comprehend. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:24 | |
It's almost the final kick in the guts, really. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:27 | |
Thanks a lot, mate. | 0:41:27 | 0:41:28 | |
Last December, the maximum sentence for causing serious injury | 0:41:28 | 0:41:32 | |
by dangerous driving increased to five years. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:35 | |
But that's come too late for Chris. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
I was hoping he'd get five more years, | 0:41:38 | 0:41:41 | |
but, no, he's only getting the one year. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:47 | |
You were the victim of dangerous driving, | 0:41:47 | 0:41:51 | |
and it makes me really sad that you're not going to get the peace | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
that you deserve. | 0:41:55 | 0:41:57 | |
I really want to do it myself, to be honest. | 0:41:57 | 0:41:59 | |
Go and smash him into a car | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
and leave him half dead on the floor. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:06 | |
I really do. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:07 | |
I'd happily do a year in prison to know he's going through | 0:42:08 | 0:42:12 | |
what I've been through. | 0:42:12 | 0:42:13 | |
At this point in time, he has lost himself a bit, to the point where | 0:42:16 | 0:42:20 | |
he can say he wants to hurt someone and you do lose a bit of yourself | 0:42:20 | 0:42:25 | |
when you have an accident. You aren't the same, you are changed. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:29 | |
I think that's what I just saw in Chris and it makes me really sad. | 0:42:29 | 0:42:34 | |
It's not about me or anything but it's the anniversary | 0:42:34 | 0:42:37 | |
of my accident, and it makes me think about where I was then. | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
And still, you know, | 0:42:42 | 0:42:44 | |
nine years on, I'm still living with the consequences | 0:42:44 | 0:42:46 | |
and the repercussions of this, of the driving... | 0:42:46 | 0:42:50 | |
of the driving badly. | 0:42:50 | 0:42:52 | |
The drivers responsible for Chris's collision were later | 0:42:54 | 0:42:58 | |
sentenced to 16 months in prison. | 0:42:58 | 0:43:00 | |
But for Ajmit Singh, the repercussions of the accident | 0:43:04 | 0:43:07 | |
that killed his mum and uncle will be felt forever. | 0:43:07 | 0:43:10 | |
Still in hospital, he's making real progress, | 0:43:10 | 0:43:13 | |
but he can't speak, and communicates using a spell board, | 0:43:13 | 0:43:17 | |
and he isn't really aware of what's happened. | 0:43:17 | 0:43:19 | |
I'll get your chart. | 0:43:23 | 0:43:25 | |
Should I get his chart for him? | 0:43:25 | 0:43:27 | |
Ajmit still doesn't know his mum is dead. | 0:43:27 | 0:43:30 | |
"Call my M-U-M." | 0:43:30 | 0:43:34 | |
-Mum. Do you want to ring your mum? -Yeah? | 0:43:34 | 0:43:38 | |
He keeps asking for his mum and his uncle, | 0:43:39 | 0:43:42 | |
-and "call my mum" he keeps signalling, doesn't he? -Yeah. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:45 | |
-What do you say to him? -I just have to keep saying I will, | 0:43:45 | 0:43:47 | |
because I can't break the news to him if his family haven't. | 0:43:47 | 0:43:50 | |
I think they're just trying to protect him | 0:43:50 | 0:43:51 | |
and they're worried he'll go backwards | 0:43:51 | 0:43:53 | |
because he's made such good progress. | 0:43:53 | 0:43:55 | |
That must be really hard for you. | 0:43:55 | 0:43:56 | |
It is because it's all he's asked today. | 0:43:56 | 0:43:59 | |
-He's asked me about 40 times today. -Has he really? | 0:43:59 | 0:44:02 | |
Spelling it out. Spelling "Mum" out. "Call Mum." | 0:44:02 | 0:44:05 | |
'It's an awful situation but I can understand why | 0:44:05 | 0:44:08 | |
'the family are worried the truth may slow down his recovery.' | 0:44:08 | 0:44:11 | |
..H-E... When? | 0:44:11 | 0:44:14 | |
A-M. "When I am..." | 0:44:14 | 0:44:17 | |
"When am I going?" | 0:44:17 | 0:44:19 | |
When you're a little bit better, | 0:44:19 | 0:44:21 | |
but it won't be long till you get home. | 0:44:21 | 0:44:23 | |
It won't be long. You're making a lot of progress. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
Today Courtney Meppen-Walter is back at the police station. He'll find | 0:44:31 | 0:44:35 | |
out if he'll be charged for causing the deaths of Ajmit's mum and uncle. | 0:44:35 | 0:44:39 | |
Are you ready, Courtney? Do you understand why you're here? | 0:44:39 | 0:44:43 | |
'I can see a real difference in him since he's watched the CCTV. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:46 | |
'But a charge could prematurely end his dreams | 0:44:47 | 0:44:50 | |
'of being a Premiership footballer.' | 0:44:50 | 0:44:52 | |
-How are you feeling? -Just loads of different emotions. | 0:44:52 | 0:44:56 | |
Just scared. | 0:44:56 | 0:44:58 | |
Scared of what? The charge? | 0:44:58 | 0:45:00 | |
Everything. Since it's happened, I'm scared of everything. | 0:45:00 | 0:45:05 | |
It's hard cos I try not to cry for my mum and stuff. | 0:45:05 | 0:45:09 | |
There are two offences that he could face. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
The most serious has a maximum prison sentence of 14 years. | 0:45:18 | 0:45:22 | |
Are you aware that what you were driving | 0:45:22 | 0:45:24 | |
is basically a two-tonne weapon? | 0:45:24 | 0:45:26 | |
No. When I first started driving, I never would have thought about that. | 0:45:26 | 0:45:30 | |
Like now when I think about it, I wish I never drive...drove, ever. | 0:45:30 | 0:45:34 | |
-Really? -Yeah. | 0:45:34 | 0:45:36 | |
I wouldn't be bothered if I never was allowed to drive again. | 0:45:36 | 0:45:38 | |
But you have to live with the consequences | 0:45:38 | 0:45:40 | |
of one moment for the rest of your life. | 0:45:40 | 0:45:43 | |
And when you say the rest of your life, | 0:45:43 | 0:45:45 | |
-it actually is the rest of your life. -The rest of your life. | 0:45:45 | 0:45:48 | |
I just wish I didn't have to go through this. | 0:45:48 | 0:45:50 | |
This it took for me to realise it. | 0:45:50 | 0:45:52 | |
Right, you're charged with the following offences - | 0:45:54 | 0:45:57 | |
on 1st September 2012, the cause of death by driving... | 0:45:57 | 0:46:00 | |
He's been charged with the lesser offence, | 0:46:00 | 0:46:02 | |
but could still go to prison for five years. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:05 | |
Despite what he's done, I can't help feeling some sympathy for Courtney. | 0:46:05 | 0:46:10 | |
I know what it's like to be 18 and to have driven too fast. | 0:46:10 | 0:46:14 | |
My actions left me in my chair. But his have left Harveen | 0:46:14 | 0:46:18 | |
and Ajmit without their mother and uncle. | 0:46:18 | 0:46:21 | |
He's been given the power to kill someone and he doesn't know it. | 0:46:21 | 0:46:24 | |
For me, it's like, you know, a kid picking up a gun and not really | 0:46:24 | 0:46:27 | |
knowing what it could do, and then pulling the trigger. | 0:46:27 | 0:46:29 | |
It's just... He's just a kid and he's going to have to pay for it. | 0:46:29 | 0:46:33 | |
Two weeks later, Courtney pleads guilty. | 0:46:37 | 0:46:40 | |
He'll appear in crown court to find out if he's going to prison. | 0:46:40 | 0:46:44 | |
He's gone from having the world at his feet to risking losing it all, | 0:46:44 | 0:46:47 | |
thanks to one moment of thoughtlessness... | 0:46:47 | 0:46:50 | |
..a moment he'll relive in his head over and over again, | 0:46:53 | 0:46:56 | |
just like I do. | 0:46:56 | 0:46:58 | |
And though I'm happy with my life now, it's not been easy | 0:47:01 | 0:47:04 | |
to accept that all it takes is one single instant | 0:47:04 | 0:47:07 | |
for things to change forever. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:09 | |
-And yourself, Sophie? -What? | 0:47:13 | 0:47:15 | |
Do you like Glasgow so far? | 0:47:15 | 0:47:18 | |
My fiance Tom and I have been together for six years | 0:47:18 | 0:47:21 | |
but he's never seen me walk. | 0:47:21 | 0:47:24 | |
Look! | 0:47:24 | 0:47:25 | |
Look at me. | 0:47:29 | 0:47:30 | |
You're very graceful actually, the way you move. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:37 | |
I just want to shout at me. Like, jump in there. | 0:47:39 | 0:47:41 | |
Tell me to stop. Don't get in the car. | 0:47:41 | 0:47:44 | |
Seeing myself like that is weird. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:48 | |
-Does it make you...? -Makes me sad. | 0:47:48 | 0:47:50 | |
-Watching that again? -Yeah. | 0:47:50 | 0:47:52 | |
I should be walking now, not watching it in a video. | 0:47:53 | 0:47:56 | |
And there shouldn't be parents out there who are watching | 0:47:56 | 0:47:59 | |
their dead kids in videos. This shouldn't be the way it is. | 0:47:59 | 0:48:03 | |
There are lots of ideas on how to bring down the number of accidents | 0:48:03 | 0:48:07 | |
involving young drivers. And a growing campaign to put restrictions | 0:48:07 | 0:48:11 | |
on those who've just passed their test, perhaps by limiting how many | 0:48:11 | 0:48:14 | |
people can be in the car, or how much driving can be done at night. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:19 | |
The Government is seriously considering this as an option. | 0:48:19 | 0:48:22 | |
These kind of restrictions are already | 0:48:22 | 0:48:24 | |
imposed on drivers in countries like America and Australia. | 0:48:24 | 0:48:27 | |
And in Northern Ireland, new drivers can't go faster than 45 mph. | 0:48:27 | 0:48:31 | |
I don't know why people think the answer is to ban young people | 0:48:33 | 0:48:36 | |
from doing more and more things after they've passed their test. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:39 | |
What they're saying is they're going to enforce these restrictions on us. | 0:48:39 | 0:48:44 | |
A solution in my mind is educate people better, from the beginning. | 0:48:44 | 0:48:47 | |
We need to get people behind the car and behind the wheel, | 0:48:47 | 0:48:51 | |
and we need to get us learning from the beginning, experiencing | 0:48:51 | 0:48:56 | |
things like skidding and corrective steering so that they're able to | 0:48:56 | 0:48:59 | |
experience that, actually practise that, before they get on the road. | 0:48:59 | 0:49:03 | |
There are many who argue we should start learning | 0:49:06 | 0:49:08 | |
to drive at a younger age and do it for longer, | 0:49:08 | 0:49:12 | |
and already there are schemes to introduce 16 to 18-year-olds | 0:49:12 | 0:49:16 | |
to the realities and responsibilities | 0:49:16 | 0:49:18 | |
of being on the road. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:19 | |
An initiative set up by Surrey Fire and Rescue Service | 0:49:20 | 0:49:23 | |
called Safe Drive Stay Alive puts on regular shows | 0:49:23 | 0:49:26 | |
that start with the feel of a night out. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:29 | |
With loud music and DJs, it's like having the radio turned up | 0:49:29 | 0:49:32 | |
to the max in your first car... | 0:49:32 | 0:49:34 | |
..but then come hard-hitting films and real-life testimonies | 0:49:37 | 0:49:41 | |
to show what can happen if a driver loses control for just a second. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:45 | |
When they hit the tree, she took full impact at 80 mph. | 0:49:49 | 0:49:53 | |
That girl in that car was my beautiful daughter Kelly. | 0:49:55 | 0:49:58 | |
Every year, I miss her more and more. | 0:50:00 | 0:50:02 | |
And it doesn't get any better. | 0:50:03 | 0:50:05 | |
There are similar events in other parts of the country, | 0:50:07 | 0:50:10 | |
but since this one in Surrey started in 2005, | 0:50:10 | 0:50:13 | |
it's had massive success, helping reduce the fatalities by 70%. | 0:50:13 | 0:50:18 | |
A lot more people should see it | 0:50:18 | 0:50:19 | |
because it's definitely changed the way I think about driving. | 0:50:19 | 0:50:22 | |
I'm going to be a lot more responsible now. | 0:50:22 | 0:50:24 | |
If I have a passenger, I'll definitely make sure that they | 0:50:24 | 0:50:27 | |
wear a seat belt as well as me cos it's my responsibility | 0:50:27 | 0:50:30 | |
of looking after the people in the car. | 0:50:30 | 0:50:32 | |
You have to see that cos it's like an added skill on what you | 0:50:32 | 0:50:35 | |
learn from driving, is to stay aware. | 0:50:35 | 0:50:37 | |
The last thing I remember is holding him in my arms | 0:50:38 | 0:50:41 | |
and begging him not to leave me. | 0:50:41 | 0:50:43 | |
Please, God, don't let him die! | 0:50:44 | 0:50:47 | |
Erik David Rain was 20 years old. | 0:50:49 | 0:50:51 | |
I'd known him since I was five years old, | 0:50:53 | 0:50:55 | |
for 15 years, and he was my best friend. | 0:50:55 | 0:50:58 | |
My only job that night as the driver was to get | 0:51:00 | 0:51:02 | |
the people in my car safely to where they were meant to be going, | 0:51:02 | 0:51:06 | |
and I failed at that. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:08 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:51:08 | 0:51:10 | |
For the people watching, this is incredibly powerful, | 0:51:10 | 0:51:14 | |
but I think it's exactly what they need, and it works. | 0:51:14 | 0:51:18 | |
This really does save lives. | 0:51:18 | 0:51:20 | |
It makes me angry that I didn't have something like this | 0:51:20 | 0:51:23 | |
when I was learning. | 0:51:23 | 0:51:24 | |
But it makes me happy that young people are learning | 0:51:25 | 0:51:28 | |
and they've got things like this available to them. | 0:51:28 | 0:51:33 | |
It's annoying it's too late for some of us. | 0:51:35 | 0:51:39 | |
Maybe if Courtney Meppen-Walter had better understood | 0:51:45 | 0:51:48 | |
the dangers of driving, he wouldn't be facing prison. | 0:51:48 | 0:51:52 | |
It's six months since the accident, | 0:51:54 | 0:51:56 | |
and Ajmit is continuing his recovery, out of hospital. | 0:51:56 | 0:52:00 | |
He now knows his mum is dead, | 0:52:00 | 0:52:02 | |
and the brothers are living in their new home with their Uncle Gawa. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:06 | |
So how's it been since you've come out of hospital? | 0:52:08 | 0:52:11 | |
-It's been really good. -You look really, really well. | 0:52:11 | 0:52:14 | |
-Yeah. -Is it nice being in this house? -Yeah, it is. | 0:52:14 | 0:52:16 | |
-With your brother? -Mm. | 0:52:16 | 0:52:19 | |
What about you, Harveen? | 0:52:19 | 0:52:20 | |
Did you ever believe he'd make it home? | 0:52:20 | 0:52:23 | |
No. | 0:52:23 | 0:52:24 | |
It's like magic. And he's back to a normal life. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:31 | |
And he can go... he can do, like, normal things. | 0:52:31 | 0:52:35 | |
What do you think of Courtney? Do you think he's a bad man? | 0:52:35 | 0:52:39 | |
As the police said, he didn't want it to be a big accident. | 0:52:39 | 0:52:44 | |
But if he'd drive 30-mile speed, then it's nothing going to happen. | 0:52:44 | 0:52:48 | |
No-one's going to die. | 0:52:48 | 0:52:51 | |
He was just showing off. But he's ruined my family's life, | 0:52:51 | 0:52:56 | |
Gawa's family, my granddad and grandma's family, Kulwan family | 0:52:56 | 0:53:00 | |
and everything. | 0:53:00 | 0:53:02 | |
About four or five families. | 0:53:02 | 0:53:05 | |
We are just left with the tears. | 0:53:05 | 0:53:08 | |
Every second, every day, every minute, | 0:53:08 | 0:53:11 | |
we are thinking about them and crying. | 0:53:11 | 0:53:13 | |
A week later, it's Courtney's day in court. | 0:53:21 | 0:53:24 | |
Move out the way! | 0:53:29 | 0:53:31 | |
He cried as he listened to the judge | 0:53:33 | 0:53:35 | |
describe the devastation he'd caused. | 0:53:35 | 0:53:37 | |
Courtney was sentenced to 16 months in prison. | 0:53:38 | 0:53:41 | |
It's really hard to watch. | 0:53:41 | 0:53:43 | |
Watching Courtney just sobbing his eyes out, but then also turning | 0:53:43 | 0:53:47 | |
and seeing a widow on the other side. | 0:53:47 | 0:53:50 | |
I'm so conflicted and so torn in how I feel. | 0:53:50 | 0:53:54 | |
It's heartbreaking, it's so horrible. | 0:53:55 | 0:53:58 | |
Everyone involved in a traffic collision is a victim in some way. | 0:54:00 | 0:54:05 | |
There are no winners. | 0:54:05 | 0:54:07 | |
But Courtney can look forward to the day he's back with his family, | 0:54:07 | 0:54:10 | |
maybe playing football, even driving again. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
Harveen and Ajmit will never get back what they've lost. | 0:54:13 | 0:54:17 | |
That's where the crash happened, here. | 0:54:17 | 0:54:20 | |
And he hit, he came out of here, didn't he? | 0:54:20 | 0:54:23 | |
I wonder how full he is with regret that he came this way, that he | 0:54:23 | 0:54:26 | |
drove that way, that he... | 0:54:26 | 0:54:27 | |
..that he was where he was, and how he was that night. | 0:54:29 | 0:54:33 | |
I bet he replays it a lot in his head. | 0:54:35 | 0:54:38 | |
At the start of July, after serving just over | 0:54:40 | 0:54:42 | |
a quarter of his 16-month sentence, Courtney was released from prison. | 0:54:42 | 0:54:47 | |
Pictures were tweeted of him smiling as he walked free | 0:54:47 | 0:54:50 | |
and of a poem he is said to have written inside, | 0:54:50 | 0:54:53 | |
about wishing he could turn back the clock. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:55 | |
But later same day the Prison Service admitted | 0:54:55 | 0:54:58 | |
he'd been released in error, so Courtney was sent back | 0:54:58 | 0:55:01 | |
to the prison he thought he'd left for good. | 0:55:01 | 0:55:04 | |
The Singh family said the mistake had only caused them further distress. | 0:55:04 | 0:55:08 | |
But in any case, they don't consider the full sentence to be justice for the two people that died. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:13 | |
I'm back where I started - at a car cruise, | 0:55:17 | 0:55:19 | |
but this one is different. | 0:55:19 | 0:55:21 | |
It's in memory of Ryan Smith, the 18-year-old biker | 0:55:21 | 0:55:25 | |
killed along with Leah Davis in a head-on collision. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:28 | |
Hundreds of Ryan's family | 0:55:32 | 0:55:34 | |
and friends have turned out to remember him. | 0:55:34 | 0:55:36 | |
But it makes me remember ALL the victims of traffic accidents. | 0:55:44 | 0:55:47 | |
Whether they've been hit, or they were driving, | 0:55:47 | 0:55:50 | |
it's such a tragic waste to see so many young lives destroyed | 0:55:50 | 0:55:54 | |
because of one brief, irreversible moment. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:57 | |
Making this film has been the hardest thing I've done | 0:56:01 | 0:56:03 | |
since my accident. | 0:56:03 | 0:56:05 | |
It's taken me back to the most important day of my life | 0:56:06 | 0:56:11 | |
and it's made me re-think it. | 0:56:11 | 0:56:13 | |
The fact is...we aren't preparing people for the road. | 0:56:17 | 0:56:23 | |
We've got to do more so that people like Courtney don't go out | 0:56:23 | 0:56:29 | |
and kill people, and people like me don't go out | 0:56:29 | 0:56:34 | |
and paralyse themselves. | 0:56:34 | 0:56:36 | |
We're just making such terrible mistakes, and they can't be undone. | 0:56:36 | 0:56:40 | |
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd | 0:57:12 | 0:57:13 |