:00:11. > :00:16.Tonight, caught on camera. As the motorway cops go trucking... He's
:00:16. > :00:20.on the phone in front. ..to catch lorry drivers up to no good...
:00:20. > :00:29.can smell it on your breath. Not only can I smell it on your breath,
:00:29. > :00:39.I can smell it on your skin. Are you an alcoholic?. And the results
:00:39. > :00:39.
:00:39. > :00:43.of a moment's distraction at the wheel. You're on the phone and look
:00:43. > :00:53.up and suddenly realise the traffic has stopped and next thing you know,
:00:53. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :00:59.you're parked in somebody's rear Last Friday's tragic accident on
:00:59. > :01:09.the M5 near Taunton has brought the dangers of driving on Britain's
:01:09. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:18.2,000 miles of motorway into sharp focus. But busy roads and a desire
:01:18. > :01:22.to get from A to B ever faster can be a dangerous combination. There's
:01:22. > :01:25.a vast difference between driving on a normal A or B road to driving
:01:25. > :01:29.on a motorway because of the speeds involved. The consequences of
:01:29. > :01:33.inattention, looking down, changing your CD, or flicking open a bag of
:01:33. > :01:36.crisps or opening a can of pop or anything like that, on a motorway
:01:36. > :01:39.can be catastrophic. The hub of the motorway network is in the Midlands,
:01:39. > :01:43.a pinch point where the traffic can bunch up causing congestion.
:01:43. > :01:46.Motorway cops Chris Perry and Chris Clarke are joining the traffic to
:01:46. > :01:49.head towards an emergency call-out. We've been sent to a road traffic
:01:49. > :01:52.accident. It appears to be several vehicles involved. Large goods
:01:52. > :01:56.vehicles, there's some suggestion that the cab's come off one of them
:01:56. > :02:00.so it could be quite serious so we need to get there ASAP. Accidents
:02:00. > :02:04.involving heavy goods vehicles are PC Perry's worst fear. What's going
:02:04. > :02:10.through your head is, what injuries have we got? Because when HGVs are
:02:10. > :02:15.involved, there's big collisions. There he is here on the end. Hey!
:02:15. > :02:19.As they pass the accident scene on the southbound carriageway... Oh
:02:19. > :02:22.dear, that's a bit of a mess, isn't it? ..all three lanes appear to be
:02:22. > :02:25.blocked and the fire services and ambulance crews have only just
:02:25. > :02:29.arrived. Frustratingly, the cops have to carry on another mile to
:02:29. > :02:39.the next junction to turn around... As well as coping with drivers
:02:39. > :02:42.slowing for a closer look. That's your typical rubbernecking. As they
:02:42. > :02:48.make the turn up the southbound carriageway, the full effect of the
:02:48. > :02:58.crash can be seen. A three-mile tailback forces the cops to take to
:02:58. > :03:04.
:03:04. > :03:08.the hard shoulder. Yeah, we're just As we arrived I could see in lane
:03:08. > :03:12.one an articulated lorry and across lane two, at a bit of an angle, I
:03:12. > :03:18.could see what looked like the box section of a rigid goods vehicle
:03:18. > :03:21.which is dipping down at the front. The force of the impact has
:03:21. > :03:24.completely ripped the back of the box van from the driver's cab. The
:03:24. > :03:28.trailer of the 44-tonne articulated lorry has suffered some damage but
:03:28. > :03:32.it's nothing compared with what's happened to the front of the other
:03:32. > :03:38.lorry, a smaller and lighter vehicle. So I walked round the
:03:38. > :03:44.front and just saw utter devastation. The whole of the
:03:44. > :03:50.passenger side, the near side, had been completely ripped to shreds.
:03:50. > :03:54.You're thinking the worst. Potentially we've got a fatal
:03:54. > :03:58.accident here. Looking at the mess that was there, there was a very,
:03:58. > :04:04.very good chance that there were severe if not fatal injuries. How
:04:04. > :04:08.are they getting on? Hi, you all right? You all right? We've got one
:04:08. > :04:11.male off of this, the driver of this. Adamant he doesn't want to
:04:11. > :04:16.travel to hospital. Out exchanging details when fire's has got here.
:04:16. > :04:20.What, has he got any injuries? None. No injuries? No injuries. He's an
:04:20. > :04:24.exceptionally lucky man to have walked away from that. PC Perry has
:04:24. > :04:27.seen some lucky escapes in his time but the driver of this truck may be
:04:27. > :04:31.the luckiest yet. I mean, it's amazing, this guy, he's lost the
:04:31. > :04:35.whole lot, he's lost the cab, you know, he needs to buy himself a
:04:35. > :04:39.lottery ticket. I'm astonished that he's got out of that without even a
:04:39. > :04:42.scratch. The driver was saved because the impact was on the
:04:42. > :04:46.passenger side and fortunately there was no-one in the passenger
:04:46. > :04:51.seat. In a lot of circumstances, you get passengers travelling in
:04:51. > :05:01.these things. If you look at the state of this headrest, well, that
:05:01. > :05:02.
:05:02. > :05:06.would have taken whoever's it was You can see from some of the marks
:05:06. > :05:09.on the seats of the passenger seat of how some of the metal has
:05:09. > :05:14.literally sliced through the seat. So if bodies had been there, you
:05:14. > :05:19.know, a human being, then... We'd have been talking fatalities.
:05:19. > :05:22.But even at the driver's point of view, how he's got out of that non-
:05:22. > :05:26.injured because nothing's been moved here. The first thing the
:05:26. > :05:30.driver of the artic knew of the impact was when the box van hit him
:05:30. > :05:34.from behind. I was just coasting to a stop and all of a sudden, I
:05:34. > :05:38.accelerated with a big bang and hit the gentleman in front. Because I
:05:38. > :05:42.knew my foot was on the brake because I was coming to a stop but
:05:42. > :05:46.all of a sudden he just accelerated and I just couldn't work out what
:05:47. > :05:54.was happening at the time. I looked out my window, I could just see the
:05:54. > :05:58.gentleman in this truck here and he was in one piece. But what isn't
:05:58. > :06:02.clear is why the box van failed to slow with the rest of the traffic.
:06:02. > :06:05.There's never such a thing as an accident. They're caused for a
:06:05. > :06:09.reason, either mechanical or driver error. Driver error is the greatest
:06:09. > :06:13.cause. Until they've talked to everyone involved, including the
:06:14. > :06:22.box van driver, who failed to stop in time and who's now in the back
:06:22. > :06:26.of PC Clarke's car, the cops won't More than 60 people are killed in
:06:26. > :06:30.goods vehicle accidents each year. To reduce the death toll, truckers
:06:30. > :06:36.are required by law to take regular breaks. Making sure they're doing
:06:36. > :06:40.so is PC Angus Nairn. It's like a cat and mouse game. They're trying
:06:40. > :06:44.to avoid me when they come down the motorway and I'm trying to find
:06:45. > :06:48.them. What they seem to forget is I do this job for a living, I do it
:06:48. > :06:51.day-in and day-out, they only might meet me once but I stop those
:06:51. > :06:54.trailers numerous times and you keep getting offences. Today, he
:06:54. > :06:58.and his fellow motorway cops have combined forces with VOSA, the
:06:58. > :07:01.Vehicle and Operator Services Agency in a country-wide operation.
:07:02. > :07:05.Checking up on the drivers requires specialist knowledge and PC Nairn
:07:05. > :07:10.probably knows more than most about trucks, truckers and the tricks
:07:10. > :07:14.they pull. I used to be in the haulage industry before I became a
:07:14. > :07:19.police officer so it gives me that edge over drivers who think they
:07:19. > :07:22.can flout the law and fiddle with their drivers' hours, etc. Today's
:07:22. > :07:32.operation will check every last detail and those who fail the tests
:07:32. > :07:37.
:07:37. > :07:41.PC Nairn has teamed up with traffic examiner, Hazel Lloyd. We're doing
:07:41. > :07:45.a joint operation, Hazel who works for VOSA and myself, are working as
:07:45. > :07:49.a pair, we're out here on the M6 motorway trying to find trucks that
:07:49. > :07:54.have committed offences. They're looking for likely targets
:07:54. > :07:57.and he thinks he's spotted one. There's an Irish truck, it's
:07:57. > :08:01.obviously coming down from the ferry and I thought, there's a good
:08:01. > :08:05.chance that he's driven over the hours that he should be and I want
:08:05. > :08:08.to stop them there because the drivers have got a pressure on them
:08:08. > :08:12.to get to destinations by certain times and they tend to break the
:08:12. > :08:15.rules, the driving hours, to get there. Every heavy goods vehicle is
:08:15. > :08:19.fitted with a tachograph which records how much rest the driver
:08:19. > :08:22.has taken. So we'll just be taking him into the check site to make
:08:22. > :08:25.sure that his documents are all in order for his tachograph, etc.
:08:25. > :08:32.Nairn and Traffic Examiner Lloyd have brought the lorry to the
:08:32. > :08:38.vehicle examination yard at Perry Bar just north of Birmingham.
:08:38. > :08:42.You all right? Hiya there. Not too bad, yourself? Yes, are you? I've
:08:42. > :08:50.seen you before, haven't we? Aye, probably, yeah. I'd like to have a
:08:50. > :08:52.look at your paperwork, please. Yeah. I need your authorisation for
:08:52. > :08:56.the company, driving licence and your tachographs. All right. I'm
:08:56. > :09:00.just going to take these into the office. Oh, aye. Have you got your
:09:00. > :09:07.driving licence with you? No, I haven't, just I took this here. For
:09:07. > :09:12.this week just. You've got your passport. Hazel? Yeah? Do you have
:09:12. > :09:16.a licence? I'll just do a quick check on it. Just a passport.
:09:17. > :09:20.Thanks. The driver's failure to carry his licence with him is
:09:20. > :09:23.making PC Nairn suspicious. Whilst we were speaking to the driver, I'd
:09:23. > :09:27.checked on his driver's licence status with the control room, who
:09:27. > :09:30.check DVLA's database and there was no record of him on the DVLA
:09:30. > :09:34.database for the UK of having a licence. Which is a fair thing
:09:34. > :09:37.because of the fact it was an Irish truck. Now Lloyd's found another
:09:37. > :09:40.problem. His driving hours. Yes, I've got a daily rest offence. From
:09:40. > :09:44.ending his duty yesterday until starting again in the early hours
:09:44. > :09:54.of this morning, he's had only seven hours and 24 minutes rest,
:09:54. > :09:58.
:09:58. > :10:02.the minimum he needed was nine. So Hiya. Hello. Yes, yes... Can I just
:10:02. > :10:04.talk to you about your charts? yeah, yeah, yeah. Problem I've got
:10:04. > :10:08.is that between you finishing yesterday and you starting again
:10:08. > :10:17.last night, in the early hours of this morning, you've only had seven
:10:17. > :10:23.But, er... It's not enough daily rest. See this here, right? Did you
:10:23. > :10:27.sleep yesterday? Oh, aye, yes. slept on the ferry? Yeah, and I
:10:27. > :10:31.slept here. And you slept for not quite two hours this morning?
:10:31. > :10:35.I stopped for about an hour and 50 minutes. I intend to learn this as
:10:35. > :10:39.much as I can... But PC Nairn reckons the driver should know the
:10:39. > :10:42.drill already. Drivers always try it on, but when they tell you they
:10:42. > :10:45.don't know what they're doing, that's when I start disbelieving
:10:45. > :10:49.them. While PC Nairn tries to get to the bottom of the problem,
:10:49. > :10:52.further north on the M6, at the scene of the accident involving two
:10:52. > :10:55.lorries and a car, the traffic has started moving again. While the
:10:55. > :10:58.backlog clears, the cops continue to investigate who caused the crash.
:10:58. > :11:02.Sergeant Steve Robinson has now taken charge and is being briefed
:11:02. > :11:06.by PC Clarke. It appears - this is the Volkswagen - it's obviously run
:11:06. > :11:12.into the back of this artic, and the cab's gone right through, and
:11:12. > :11:15.basically it's taken the box off the back of the chassis. Now, with
:11:15. > :11:19.an accident of that nature, even though there was nobody injured, I
:11:19. > :11:23.started to form the opinion that offences had been committed. So I
:11:23. > :11:26.need to make sure that all of the drivers have been spoken to, that
:11:26. > :11:32.they're interviewed, that we can get an indication of exactly what's
:11:32. > :11:34.happened. The cops might have been able to find a clue in the box
:11:34. > :11:38.van's tachograph, but it's been destroyed in the crash. However,
:11:38. > :11:42.all the evidence points to the driver of the box van as the person
:11:42. > :11:46.at fault. And he's in the back of PC Clarke's car. How did the
:11:46. > :11:49.collision occur? Tell me one sentence at a time, I've got to
:11:49. > :11:53.write it down, yeah? I was just travelling down here and they all
:11:53. > :11:59.jammed their anchors on, next I jammed mine on and I was a bit
:11:59. > :12:02.close, I had to pull out and clipped the side of the cab.
:12:02. > :12:08.driver's story is that the traffic stopped suddenly, but other
:12:08. > :12:14.motorists tell it differently. take it you were slowing down nice
:12:14. > :12:18.and slowly, were you? Yeah. It's wasn't a... Yeah, because... I've
:12:18. > :12:21.spoken to this guy, and he just said, "Oh, yeah, you were slowing
:12:21. > :12:24.down, in another second we would have been stopped." So you used a
:12:24. > :12:27.nice, steady, controlled slowdown? Well, that's it, then. Yeah.
:12:27. > :12:32.didn't brake hard or anything like that? No, we were literally just...
:12:32. > :12:36.I had loads of gap to the next car. It looks like the box-van driver
:12:36. > :12:39.had plenty of time to stop but for some reason failed to do so. Have
:12:39. > :12:43.you suffered any mechanical defects with the vehicle? Not really, no.
:12:43. > :12:46.Sergeant Robinson now has an idea of the sequence of events. What I
:12:46. > :12:49.had established at the scene was that the articulated vehicle had
:12:49. > :12:52.actually stopped. It was as a result of the collision between the
:12:52. > :12:55.rigid goods vehicle that had run into the back of the articulated
:12:55. > :12:59.vehicle, which then pushed that articulated vehicle into the rear
:12:59. > :13:03.of the Cavalier. It's crunch-time for the box-van driver. Whose fault
:13:04. > :13:08.was the accident, and why? Must be mine, mustn't it? He knew he'd
:13:08. > :13:12.shown a lack of attention and he'd caused the accident. The driver of
:13:12. > :13:15.the cab, that's been very lucky and very fortunate, for some reason,
:13:15. > :13:18.hasn't braked until the very last minute, so he's been doing
:13:18. > :13:23.something, and clearly, from our point of view, he's driving without
:13:23. > :13:26.due care and attention. Not only could he have killed himself or
:13:26. > :13:30.others, other passengers in his vehicle, he could have killed any
:13:30. > :13:34.other members of the public on the road. And that's extremely
:13:34. > :13:42.dangerous. And that shows you, like, a moment of inattention, even at 50,
:13:42. > :13:47.60 mph, that's the damage it can cause. Lack of attention is the
:13:47. > :13:57.cause of nearly 40% of accidents every year. My bag's not turned up,
:13:57. > :13:59.
:13:59. > :14:02.has it? Your bag? Yeah. You can You told your bosses? Yeah, yeah...
:14:02. > :14:05.INDISTINCT We'll do that, then. Just bear with
:14:06. > :14:09.us a minute. The driver was, I think, still in shock. I don't
:14:09. > :14:13.think he realised the sheer gravity of what had actually happened, of
:14:13. > :14:23.how lucky he was. I think it was only when he looked back at his cab
:14:23. > :14:27.
:14:27. > :14:32.and realised that he might not have Clearly, it's quite a shocking
:14:32. > :14:35.incident. It's an incident that you probably would only ever be
:14:35. > :14:39.involved in once in your lifetime, and the scene was actually quite
:14:39. > :14:42.devastating, so I think that would have quite a big impact on any
:14:42. > :14:45.individual, that one moment you can be OK, the next moment, total
:14:45. > :14:48.devastation. At Perry Barr in north Birmingham, the lorry driver caught
:14:48. > :14:54.exceeding his driving hours is being grounded by VOSA examiner
:14:54. > :14:58.Hazel Lloyd. Effective from now... Yes? I'm going to put you on nine
:14:58. > :15:03.hours' rest, OK? Yes. I'll ask you to park in the lay-by just outside
:15:03. > :15:07.there, all right? Right. If I can just bring this to your attention.
:15:07. > :15:09.If you do decide to drive off, if you see an opportunity and we're
:15:09. > :15:14.not looking... HE LAUGHS
:15:14. > :15:17.I'll hardly bother for that, now! Meanwhile, PC Angus Nairn is using
:15:17. > :15:20.the time to make some more inquiries into the man's missing
:15:20. > :15:25.driving licence. There was something in the back of my mind
:15:25. > :15:30.that just didn't sit easily with me. There was something there that I
:15:30. > :15:34.had to find out about. I had to do a bit more digging. I had to get to
:15:34. > :15:38.the bottom of the fact. What was really wrong here? I'm not given up
:15:38. > :15:42.yet. I'm going to make an inquiry with the Garda, to see if he's got
:15:42. > :15:46.the licence that he needs, because we've got no record of him in the
:15:46. > :15:50.UK and there's not a Northern Irish one, so... He says she's got a
:15:50. > :15:53.Southern Irish licence. I'll check that just now. Don't know how he's
:15:53. > :15:57.got a Southern Irish licence when he lives in the north, right enough.
:15:57. > :16:01.But we'll find it. He was claiming that he had a Southern Irish
:16:01. > :16:05.driver's licence and he'd held this licence for a couple of years. So
:16:05. > :16:09.the first phone call was going to be to the Garda in the South of
:16:09. > :16:13.Ireland, just to find out, did they have a record of this lad? VOICE ON
:16:13. > :16:17.RADIO: 'I have only...three matches. 'None of them match the name, first
:16:17. > :16:20.name, 'and none of them match the date of birth.' That's no problem.
:16:20. > :16:23.Thanks for looking. After drawing a blank with the Southern Irish
:16:23. > :16:26.driver's licence, I then contacted the Northern Irish Driver's Licence
:16:26. > :16:30.Agency. Fantastic. Thanks again, Graham. Cheers, pal. Bye now. And
:16:31. > :16:36.they confirmed the suspicions that I'd had for some time. Hazel?
:16:36. > :16:39.My man, Padraig. Yes? He's only a provisional licence holder. Really?
:16:39. > :16:43.And in Northern Ireland. So, Northern Ireland and the UK are the
:16:43. > :16:47.same thing, so provisional licence holder, full-stop. It beggars
:16:47. > :16:50.belief to think that he's got the nerve to drive that truck up and
:16:50. > :16:55.down the motorway and the roads in Britain, putting everybody's life
:16:55. > :16:59.in danger, when he's never even sat a test. So...I'll wake him up in a
:16:59. > :17:03.wee while and give him that news and I'll deal with him the way he
:17:03. > :17:07.should be dealt with, the way that I was looking to deal with him
:17:07. > :17:11.earlier on but just couldn't get enough evidence and information.
:17:11. > :17:15.But now I've got it I can now go ahead and prosecute him the way I
:17:15. > :17:19.was intending to. Two hours later, PC Nairn is about to give the lorry
:17:20. > :17:23.driver who has no licence a rude awakening. I'm about to go and
:17:23. > :17:27.waken him up out of his beauty sleep and tell him that he's going
:17:27. > :17:30.to have to get his things together because he ain't going to be
:17:30. > :17:34.driving this truck away from here. There's a large number of drivers
:17:34. > :17:38.that don't have the proper licence to drive trucks. Drivers will try
:17:38. > :17:41.and blag their way into a job. They might well be able to drive the
:17:41. > :17:45.truck but they're daft enough to actually put people's lives at risk
:17:45. > :17:48.by jumping into the driver's seat of one of these trucks and bimbling
:17:48. > :17:51.off down the road, blissfully unaware that if they were to kill
:17:51. > :17:56.somebody, or be involved in an accident where somebody was
:17:56. > :18:02.seriously injured, they're looking at custodial sentences.
:18:02. > :18:05.Have you had some sleep now? aye, yes. We'll get this whole
:18:06. > :18:11.thing sorted out. We're getting it sorted out - there's good news and
:18:11. > :18:15.bad news. What do you want first? Give me both. It doesn't matter.
:18:15. > :18:18.I'll give you the good news. You don't have to wait for your nine
:18:18. > :18:23.hours' prohibition. Yes? You can go home any time. So that's the good
:18:24. > :18:28.news. Right. The bad news is you'll not be driving the truck. Yeah, but
:18:28. > :18:32.see... But see, but see... I've got a thing here that tells me that you
:18:32. > :18:35.don't have a licence. You don't have a licence to drive a truck or
:18:35. > :18:39.a licence to drive a car. You've a provisional, but that means you've
:18:39. > :18:44.got to have L-plates and a supervisor. Have you ever sat a
:18:45. > :18:49.test to drive a truck? Yeah, I have. Where? In Recess and Dundalk. I
:18:49. > :18:53.have done that. Right, well, the South don't have any record at all
:18:53. > :18:57.of you. I don't know how this thing's happened. And you don't
:18:57. > :19:00.come up as having a record in the South of Ireland for a driver's
:19:00. > :19:03.licence. But that's beside the point because, in the North, you're
:19:03. > :19:06.only a provisional licence-holder. Only last year you were given six
:19:06. > :19:11.points. I'm going to give you even more because you're going to have
:19:11. > :19:14.to go to court. And the six you've got, and then the rest I'm going to
:19:14. > :19:17.give you, because it'll be six for driving without insurance, and
:19:17. > :19:20.another three for driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence.
:19:20. > :19:25.But I'm satisfied at the minute that you're going no further with
:19:25. > :19:28.this truck. The driver wasn't arrested for the offence because
:19:28. > :19:31.it's not an arrestable offence, to be driving without a licence for
:19:31. > :19:35.either a car or a track, unfortunately. If it was an
:19:35. > :19:39.arrestable offence then we'd maybe get some more people off the road,
:19:39. > :19:42.prevent a lot more accidents from happening and save you and I a lot
:19:42. > :19:45.of money in our expensive insurance premiums. The truck is being driven
:19:45. > :19:48.to the pound where it will remain until a qualified driver is
:19:48. > :19:52.available to continue the journey south. At night time, traffic on
:19:52. > :19:56.the motorway network is often much lighter than during the day. Most
:19:56. > :20:00.of the heavy lorries have parked up for the night leaving the roads to
:20:00. > :20:05.the cars and vans. But the motorway at night has its own problems and
:20:05. > :20:09.tired drivers are one of the major worries for the motorway cops. It's
:20:09. > :20:14.3am and PCs Jess Rojek and Gary Williams have been called to an
:20:14. > :20:19.accident near Stoke-on-Trent. just had a report that there's a
:20:19. > :20:23.vehicle overturned on the M6 southbound between 14 and 13. There
:20:23. > :20:27.are a couple of crews in attendance, they've just got there and updated
:20:27. > :20:30.the control room. It would appear it's on its roof and a person is
:20:30. > :20:35.trapped. It would also appear that there's an ambulance on the scene
:20:35. > :20:39.at the moment. We don't know what the state the casualties are in. I
:20:39. > :20:43.dare say we'll get an update in a moment as to whether it will be
:20:43. > :20:46.serious. We will have to go there reasonably quickly to get there in
:20:46. > :20:50.the best possible time. The cops don't routinely drive at high speed
:20:50. > :20:55.but the crash is more than 40 miles away and the emergency crews on
:20:55. > :20:58.scene need all the help they can get. It was one of my first blue
:20:58. > :21:04.light runs that I'd done since coming onto motorway, and it was
:21:04. > :21:08.fast, it had to be fast. When you are driving at those speeds you
:21:08. > :21:13.have to remain calm and focused. You are aware of the consequences,
:21:13. > :21:19.if you lose concentration even for a second. Just that one lack of
:21:19. > :21:25.judgment can destabilise the car. It's quite draining when you get to
:21:25. > :21:28.the end of it. A further update is now coming through on the radio.
:21:28. > :21:34.I'm told it's a female pedestrian, who was walking down the
:21:34. > :21:39.carriageway. I have got an ambulance on scene and am trying to
:21:39. > :21:47.get some more information as to what's been going on. OK, thank you.
:21:47. > :21:50.From what I've just caught, it sounds like there was a breakdown.
:21:50. > :21:59.Somebody's been walking up the hard shoulder, presumably to get to an
:21:59. > :22:08.emergency phone, and another car ..which means there's a good chance
:22:08. > :22:13.the injuries are going to be either fatal or, um, life-changing.
:22:13. > :22:18.that point, I didn't know if it was a fatality or not and that's what I
:22:18. > :22:23.was thinking, this is going to be a fatal collision. We need to get
:22:23. > :22:27.there to try and save lives. not sure if this particular stretch
:22:27. > :22:31.of carriageway is lit or not. As you can see, we've just gone into
:22:31. > :22:34.an unlit carriageway. If the vehicle is dark, it's on its roof
:22:34. > :22:38.in the carriageway, yet people have been driving for some time, they're
:22:38. > :22:43.tired they don't see it till the last minute or they don't see it at
:22:43. > :22:47.all, what is a one-vehicle RTC may well become three or four. If we
:22:47. > :22:55.get something like a truck hitting it, then we can be looking at an
:22:55. > :22:58.altogether bigger collision. There it is. There was one vehicle that
:22:58. > :23:02.was overturned, the fire crew was there working on it which again
:23:02. > :23:05.lends itself to the fact it may be a serious injury or fatal. From
:23:05. > :23:09.what we saw it looked a pretty nasty scene. The motorway cops'
:23:09. > :23:13.priority is to ensure the safety of rescue crews who are working on the
:23:13. > :23:18.unlit carriageway just feet from the traffic. We're going to close
:23:18. > :23:21.lane two as well. The first thing we have to do when we get there is
:23:22. > :23:25.make the scene safe, regardless of who's screaming and shouting. In
:23:25. > :23:28.fact it's good if people are screaming and shouting because you
:23:28. > :23:32.know they're still alive. It's when the scene is deathly quiet that you
:23:32. > :23:36.start to worry. While the cops close off lane two, the fire
:23:36. > :23:41.brigade are busying try to cut free a woman passenger from the wreckage
:23:41. > :23:48.of her car. PC Rojek has been a motorway cop for just four months
:23:48. > :23:54.and sticks close to PC Williams. With every job that I'm going to on
:23:54. > :24:02.the motorway, it's all new. There is lots to learn. Luckily I've got
:24:02. > :24:05.Gaz who guides me through it all. When we got to the scene I was
:24:06. > :24:09.thinking that potentially there was still going to be serious injury or
:24:09. > :24:12.a fatality involved in this collision. There was just one car
:24:12. > :24:16.actually overturned and damaged as far as we could see at that stage.
:24:16. > :24:21.It may well be something as simple as the driver's fallen asleep or
:24:21. > :24:26.lost control of the car or swerved to avoid something. The vehicle has
:24:26. > :24:31.obviously spun round and overturned. More than 20 fire-fighters are on
:24:31. > :24:35.scene led by watch manager, Ian Moss. As soon as I made contact
:24:35. > :24:45.with the ambulance personnel I was informed that there was one female
:24:45. > :24:46.
:24:46. > :24:53.casualty, going downhill rapidly in But the woman in the car is not the
:24:53. > :24:58.only casualty. There is also, I believe at this stage, an injured
:24:58. > :25:02.pedestrian. She has actually driven past this overturned car here.
:25:02. > :25:05.She's been walking back to see if everybody is OK and whilst she's
:25:05. > :25:09.been walking back down the hard shoulder towards this car, she's
:25:09. > :25:15.then been taken out by another car who was trying to avoid the
:25:15. > :25:20.overturned car. It turned out that there was more to it. There was a
:25:20. > :25:24.lorry parked further down which had been involved in the collision.
:25:24. > :25:31.While the fire crew battled to cut the woman free, the cops still have
:25:31. > :25:34.to solve the mystery of who's to 40 miles south in Birmingham city
:25:34. > :25:39.centre, PCs Martin Smith and Simon Breckles are halfway through their
:25:39. > :25:44.12-hour shift. They're parked up just off the motorway looking out
:25:44. > :25:51.for suspicious cars. As we were sitting waiting for traffic to pass,
:25:51. > :25:55.there was a Golf which brought our attention. It was an old car. Are
:25:55. > :25:59.we after this Volkswagen then? We might as well check in, it looks a
:25:59. > :26:04.bit of a tatty heap, doesn't it? I'll run that through and check it
:26:04. > :26:09.for insurance. Oscar Tango nine six... They know the drivers of
:26:09. > :26:15.tatty heaps often don't bother about details like insurance.
:26:15. > :26:22.report no insurance. Ah-ha! MoT expired 19th August. Ho-ho! It's
:26:22. > :26:28.going to be a code one on Bagot Street in the city centre. The
:26:28. > :26:32.reason why we stopped this one, it looked like a bit of an old banger.
:26:33. > :26:42.We checked it out on the PNC and it's got no insurance and the MoT's
:26:43. > :26:45.
:26:45. > :26:51.expired. Do you want to take a seat in there. Hello, mate, how are you
:26:51. > :26:54.doing? Not bad, how are you? Yes, not too bad. Has my colleague said
:26:54. > :26:58.why you've been stopped? insurance? There's a couple of
:26:58. > :27:02.things really, OK? No insurance and no MoT. OK? So, we're going to ask
:27:02. > :27:05.you straight up now to save us going round the houses and making
:27:05. > :27:10.phone calls and keeping you here for ever, are you insured? OK. And
:27:10. > :27:14.the MoT has run out? Yes. OK. A lot of people do cough because they
:27:14. > :27:17.know full well that once we check on the police national computer the
:27:17. > :27:21.vehicle comes back with no insurance. It doesn't take an awful
:27:21. > :27:24.lot to find out the vehicle is not insured. We'll keep it nice and
:27:24. > :27:28.simple. The facts are going to be reported. You may be prosecuted for
:27:28. > :27:31.the offence of using a vehicle with no insurance and an out-of-date MoT.
:27:31. > :27:34.The downside to it is we have powers to seize vehicles from
:27:34. > :27:38.uninsured or unlicensed drivers. You are uninsured so the vehicle
:27:38. > :27:41.will be seized. OK? You know the risks, you took the chance, you
:27:41. > :27:45.came out in it and it's just unfortunate that you got captured
:27:45. > :27:50.driving. It's not his lucky night. But he's holding no grudges.
:27:50. > :27:53.guys are so much nicer than...other police guys. I don't know what your
:27:53. > :27:57.experiences are in the past, obviously, but we try and do the
:27:57. > :28:01.right thing. We try and be fair and reasonable. We've got no reason to
:28:01. > :28:05.be anything but... It is my fault, and I'm not going to deny it. It's
:28:05. > :28:08.my fault but you're being nice about it. That's what I appreciate.
:28:08. > :28:12.We're not going to go over the top here. What does it achieve? Nothing
:28:12. > :28:16.at all. You've done it, you've been caught out. We're doing the
:28:16. > :28:21.paperwork, we'll be nice to you and you'll be gone. But, the nice cops
:28:21. > :28:24.are still going to take his car away. Can I just get a couple of
:28:24. > :28:30.things out of the car? Yes, yes. Absolutely no problem at all. What
:28:30. > :28:34.do you want and I'll go and get it for you? Can I get it myself?
:28:34. > :28:38.OK to get it, just go with him, he'll be all right. There's no
:28:38. > :28:43.suggestion the driver will make a run for it, but PC Breckles is
:28:43. > :28:46.making sure. Just in case. If you want to leave it, leave it. Whilst
:28:46. > :28:53.he's going back to the police vehicle, I just glance into the
:28:53. > :28:58.back seat. Take your seat again, fella. Rather than pull up outside
:28:58. > :29:01.your door, do you want us to drop you somewhere near your house?
:29:01. > :29:06.But the pleasant atmosphere is about to be broken. In the back
:29:06. > :29:10.seat is a baseball bat. What's this for, fellow? It's been in there for
:29:10. > :29:16.days, for ever. Honestly, it's nothing of the sort you're thinking.
:29:16. > :29:20.That was on the back seat. Baseball bats are for baseball. If he was
:29:20. > :29:24.playing baseball, we'd accept anything he'd say. If he was in the
:29:24. > :29:28.middle of a football pitch, in the middle of an open bit of grass land,
:29:28. > :29:32.anything like that. He could say, "I was playing baseball" and we'd
:29:32. > :29:35.have no way of saying otherwise. Why do you carry it on the back
:29:35. > :29:42.seat? Someone moved it from the thingy to the back seat. From the
:29:42. > :29:47.where? From the boot. Why? always in my car. Why is it in the
:29:47. > :29:51.car? Self-defence, probably. Self- defence? Self defence is the wrong
:29:51. > :29:55.answer. I think we're just about to compound your misery. You said it's
:29:55. > :29:58.in there for self-defence, mate. You're under arrest. Really? Yes,
:29:58. > :30:03.suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. You've just told
:30:03. > :30:06.us it's self- defence. You can't carry it, mate. In the middle of
:30:06. > :30:10.Birmingham City Centre, in a car which is not insured and you've got
:30:10. > :30:14.a baseball bat sitting on the back seat. Oh, no, come on, man. I've
:30:14. > :30:17.never got in a fight in my life. You've just told me that's for
:30:17. > :30:20.self- defence. It's an offensive weapon. You're always going to get
:30:20. > :30:24.arrested, especially if you say, "It's for self-defence". You've got
:30:24. > :30:27.no excuse to have a baseball bat for self-defence. We'll have to do
:30:27. > :30:31.the formalities. Oh... We've got to arrest you now. That's why I said,
:30:31. > :30:35."Why is it in the car? You said, "Self-defence." This is a joke.
:30:35. > :30:39.I've never been in a fight in my life. Honestly, swear to God.
:30:39. > :30:42.You're under arrest on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon.
:30:42. > :30:45.When I said, "What's it for?" You said, "Self defence, I suppose."
:30:45. > :30:48.When you say that, that puts it into a whole different ball-game.
:30:48. > :30:52.It's being treated as an offensive weapon because if you're saying
:30:52. > :30:56.self-defence it means you're going to be using it to hit somebody with.
:30:56. > :31:00.One of the best forms of self- defence sometimes is to just run
:31:00. > :31:05.away. You've been a bit of a fool to yourself, haven't you? I didn't
:31:05. > :31:08.realise that... I'd rather not to have done that to you. I've never...
:31:09. > :31:12.What the hell do you carry something like that in your car
:31:12. > :31:17.for? Just it's been in my case, it's a gift from a friend from
:31:17. > :31:24.years ago. It's always in my car. I've got to act on what you said.
:31:24. > :31:28.didn't know you guys were strict like that. As his car is taken away,
:31:28. > :31:33.back on the M6 rescue workers are still trying to free the woman
:31:33. > :31:38.passenger trapped in an overturned car. While they cut her out, PC
:31:38. > :31:41.Williams has been working out what may have caused the crash.
:31:41. > :31:46.events unfolded, the initial reports we were getting was that
:31:46. > :31:49.the driver of the overturned vehicle had started to fall asleep.
:31:49. > :31:53.The passenger in that vehicle had actually seen that, grabbed the
:31:53. > :32:00.wheel and the vehicle had gone out of control to such an extent that
:32:00. > :32:03.it overturned and came to rest on the carriageway. It was the first
:32:03. > :32:06.in a horrifying sequence of events. What had happened is another
:32:06. > :32:10.vehicle had gone past the overturned vehicle, obviously the
:32:10. > :32:14.driver saw it there, and it was a lady driving that vehicle. She'd
:32:14. > :32:17.stopped on the hard shoulder and started to walk back to the
:32:17. > :32:27.overturned vehicle. At which point, another car comes down, um, over-
:32:27. > :32:28.
:32:28. > :32:31.reacts to what's in the carriageway, and spins out of control. The car
:32:31. > :32:35.starts veering, it goes onto the hard shoulder, hits the lady that's
:32:35. > :32:42.walking back to the car, and we've now got another casualty to deal
:32:42. > :32:46.with. The woman who stopped to help miraculously escaped with just a
:32:46. > :32:52.broken leg. Seconds later, a lorry was also involved and PC Williams
:32:52. > :32:55.thinks the driver may be able to shed more light on events.
:32:55. > :33:02.Obviously, I was coming around the bend, I was following another Royal
:33:02. > :33:07.Mail artic. Right, OK. He's done a violent swerve to the right. Right.
:33:07. > :33:11.I've gone, "What's he doing?" You couldn't see it because it was on
:33:11. > :33:15.its roof. Yeah, and it's dark as well. I've gone to swerve, I looked
:33:15. > :33:22.that side but there was a car alongside so I couldn't move.
:33:22. > :33:26.I've gone, "What is it?" and then bang. There's actually been a
:33:26. > :33:30.couple of collisions as a result of what's happened here tonight. The
:33:30. > :33:35.guy that I was dealing with was one of the drivers of the artic convey
:33:35. > :33:38.that was coming down. Basically, he's done his best to miss this one
:33:38. > :33:42.that's overturned but unfortunately he's clipped it and spun it round
:33:42. > :33:47.while the people were still trapped in it. You couldn't write something
:33:47. > :33:51.like that. Unless people see it they probably wouldn't believe it.
:33:51. > :33:59.Although the car has been badly damaged in the crash, the driver is
:33:59. > :34:04.unhurt and on the way to hospital. The woman passenger is not so lucky.
:34:04. > :34:08.There's been a lot of cutting done to the car. We've had to remove the
:34:08. > :34:12.passenger side door, go in through the back of the car and remove the
:34:12. > :34:15.back seats and do further cutting so she could come out on the spine
:34:15. > :34:24.board. For everyone the events have been a shocking reminder of the
:34:24. > :34:31.The woman survivor, now on her way to hospital, has had an incredible
:34:31. > :34:34.escape. It's just amazing that nobody's been killed. Everybody's
:34:34. > :34:44.out, everybody's talking, everybody's alive, that's a good
:34:44. > :34:45.
:34:45. > :34:49.result. I'm just glad that nobody's By daybreak, the motorway is
:34:49. > :34:52.already getting busy as the truckers take to the roads. But
:34:52. > :34:58.amongst the early risers today are two motorway cops in a secret
:34:58. > :35:04.weapon. A seven-tonne lorry cab driven by PC Angus Nairn who's on a
:35:04. > :35:10.special operation with his colleague PC Steve Gamble. Today
:35:10. > :35:13.we're using this truck as part of Operation Parochial. It's an
:35:13. > :35:17.operation that we do from time to time to catch truck drivers, van
:35:17. > :35:20.drivers, anybody that happens to be committing the offence of using a
:35:20. > :35:23.mobile phone, driving without due care and attention, watching the TV
:35:23. > :35:31.whilst they're driving along the road, things that you wouldn't
:35:31. > :35:35.normally see if you were in a normal police patrol car. Because
:35:35. > :35:39.truckers are so high off the ground, officers in ordinary police cars
:35:40. > :35:43.simply can't see in to check on what they're up to. Things that you
:35:43. > :35:50.don't normally get to see from an unmarked car that we can actually
:35:50. > :35:53.see from the truck. As we drive along, what we're looking for is
:35:53. > :35:57.people who are on the phone, people who are distracted when they're
:35:57. > :36:01.driving and then we use the other lads in the intercept car behind us,
:36:01. > :36:10.we call them up, they come along and they stop the vehicle that
:36:10. > :36:15.we've video-ed using the camera - Steve has. The intercept team of PC
:36:15. > :36:20.Steve Sampson and Steve Rounds hangs back. PC Rounds knows the
:36:20. > :36:23.stakes are high. If the driver of a car is looking down into their lap
:36:23. > :36:28.because they're texting, then they'll hit the back of the car in
:36:28. > :36:35.front. But with a truck, it not only hits the back of the car in
:36:35. > :36:40.front, it drives over it and the next four cars ahead. The cops are
:36:40. > :36:43.already gathering lots of evidence on tape. We can in a way sneak up
:36:43. > :36:47.on people and catch them red-handed. Some people might criticise the
:36:47. > :36:50.fact that we are using a truck but only those people that are doing
:36:50. > :36:54.something wrong are the ones that complain. Quite rightly they've got
:36:54. > :36:58.a reason to complain because they get penalty points and a big fine
:36:59. > :37:02.from us. They're going to hate us, hate us with a vengeance. That just
:37:02. > :37:08.makes the job a bit more satisfying when we know that we've made their
:37:08. > :37:12.day. Just give him a warning. HORN TOOTS
:37:12. > :37:16.I suppose you could regard it as a spy in the cab because we are
:37:16. > :37:22.spying straight into their cab. spy in the cab is clearly a
:37:22. > :37:32.surprise to many truckers. I was just checking a message, that was
:37:32. > :37:34.
:37:34. > :37:39.On the steering wheel, his dinner. He's on the phone, Sarge. Too late
:37:39. > :37:43.for the smile. You learn the hard way, don't you? I've just learnt
:37:43. > :37:47.the hard way. People might say, "It's a waste of time, "it's a
:37:47. > :37:49.waste of money" but when we can prove we're catching people doing
:37:49. > :37:53.really bad things, and serious offences that could cause serious
:37:53. > :37:58.injury to somebody, we can turn around and say, "That's the reason
:37:58. > :38:01.we're doing it." 20 miles north on the M6, PCs Martin Smith and Simon
:38:01. > :38:05.Breckles are also targeting drivers who are not paying attention to the
:38:05. > :38:11.road ahead. They're using an unmarked car to catch motorists
:38:11. > :38:15.using their mobile phones. The M6 motorway is renowned for being
:38:15. > :38:19.stop/start. One minute it's flowing, the next minute traffic comes to a
:38:19. > :38:22.grinding halt, there's no obvious reason for that and all of a sudden
:38:22. > :38:25.you're faced with three lines of standing traffic in front of you.
:38:25. > :38:29.The moment's inattention will come when you're on the phone, you'll
:38:29. > :38:33.look up and suddenly realise that the traffic has stopped and the
:38:33. > :38:40.next thing you know you're parked in somebody's rear end. He's on his
:38:40. > :38:46.phone. In the blue van? Yeah. Brilliant, well done. Is he off it
:38:46. > :38:49.now or still on it? He's off it now. Off it now. Well, tough. Last year
:38:49. > :38:50.in the UK, nearly 170,000 drivers were guilty of using their phones
:38:50. > :38:56.whilst driving. SIRENS BLARE
:38:56. > :38:59.No excuses, no quarter for people on the phone, I'm afraid. People
:38:59. > :39:02.know it's against the law. They've known that for some time, yet
:39:02. > :39:07.people persistently use a mobile phone and the message possibly
:39:07. > :39:12.hasn't got across as effectively as it should. Some people never learn,
:39:12. > :39:16.another one on the phone. To me, that's a pet hate. I will deal with
:39:16. > :39:22.it and deal with it robustly. People will get tickets and they
:39:22. > :39:25.will go to court. They'd no reason to believe it'd be anything other
:39:25. > :39:30.than the standard, "You're on the phone, OK, there's your ticket,
:39:30. > :39:37.three points gone." Little did we know it was going to turn into a
:39:37. > :39:43.saga. The reason why we stopped you, do you have any idea? Um...go on.
:39:43. > :39:51.Take a stab in the dark. What was you doing just? Driving? With what?
:39:51. > :39:56.What was in your right hand? Nothing. Mobile telephone. There
:39:56. > :40:06.wasn't. Your mobile phone was to your ear. Do you have it with you,
:40:06. > :40:08.
:40:08. > :40:10.sir? Sorry? Where's your phone now? the van? In the... Down the side, I
:40:11. > :40:17.believe. So if we get your phone, it won't show anything happening on
:40:17. > :40:22.we've got the power to seize the phone as evidence of an offence. So
:40:22. > :40:26.we're just asking you to be honest with us now. We've seen you on the
:40:26. > :40:34.phone. I was checking the time. Checking the time? Yes. PC Smith's
:40:34. > :40:44.calling time on that excuse. A Vito does but it's an hour forward. I
:40:44. > :40:44.
:40:44. > :43:23.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 159 seconds
:43:23. > :43:33.couldn't work it out. I don't If the trucker didn't know he was
:43:33. > :43:40.
:43:40. > :43:43.The fact the driver remained on his phone worries PC Nairn. He's that
:43:43. > :43:47.busy concentrating on his phone call, there's no way he can be
:43:47. > :43:51.aware of what's going on around him. And if somebody needs to stop in a
:43:51. > :43:56.hurry, then if he doesn't see it happening, he's going straight into
:43:56. > :43:59.the back of them. Then Steve and myself will then be sent up there
:43:59. > :44:03.to deal with an accident that could have been avoided because he should
:44:03. > :44:06.have been paying more attention. So I have no sympathy for him. He's
:44:06. > :44:11.going to get what he deserves, these points on his licence and a
:44:11. > :44:17.fine. Come and have a seat. Have a seat in the car for me. Have a seat
:44:17. > :44:23.in the police car. Have a seat in the police car, please. Yeah, OK,
:44:23. > :44:31.can I just get my phone? Yeah. The driver seems to have forgotten
:44:31. > :44:34.something. When the driver went back to the cab, what he did was
:44:34. > :44:38.stand on the steps on the driver's side. He seemed to linger a bit,
:44:38. > :44:41.and that's odd. He seemed to be messing for what seemed like an age,
:44:41. > :44:44.was probably 15-20 seconds, in the cab. Come out the way. I'm afraid
:44:44. > :44:47.you can't stand round the side of the truck fannying around. Now have
:44:47. > :44:51.a seat in the police car. All right? You're standing on the
:44:51. > :44:54.dangerous side of the traffic with your truck door open and I want to
:44:54. > :45:01.have a word with you about your phone. Have a seat in there, please.
:45:01. > :45:05.The trucker's odd behaviour is making PC Rounds suspicious. Hello,
:45:05. > :45:10.driver. Now, driver, I don't know what you're trying to do but you're
:45:10. > :45:17.putting yourself and us in danger. I don't want to stand on the hard
:45:17. > :45:22.shoulder of the motorway waiting for you to mess around in your cab.
:45:22. > :45:26.Sorry. When I say I want to speak to you in the police car, I want to
:45:26. > :45:36.speak to you in the police car to keep you safe, to keep me safe, and
:45:36. > :45:41.
:45:41. > :45:44.so that we can talk in a nice quiet atmosphere. All right? I just got
:45:44. > :45:48.this smell coming from the back of the car, floating over the headrest
:45:48. > :45:52.towards me. I was on the phone. Have you got your licence at all?
:45:52. > :45:55.Yes. With you? Well, in the lorry. Do you want me to get it? No,
:45:55. > :45:58.you've spent enough time looking around by the lorry. I had it on
:45:58. > :46:05.the passenger side. Stay here, talk to my colleague. Where is your
:46:05. > :46:11.licence, and I'll go and fetch it. In the... Oh, God... I can't
:46:11. > :46:15.remember where it is. Well, you were going to fetch it. You're not
:46:15. > :46:19.instilling me with any confidence, driver. In the... Can I go and get
:46:19. > :46:24.it, it'll be just as easy. Right, give me the keys, and I'll nip back
:46:24. > :46:31.and get it. PC Rounds is taking the opportunity to have a look around
:46:31. > :46:39.the cab to see what the driver was up to. Is the vehicle a manual or
:46:39. > :46:49.auto? An auto. For business use at the moment, yeah? Pardon? It's
:46:49. > :46:51.
:46:51. > :47:00.business use you're on? Right then, driver. I know you're chewing an
:47:00. > :47:03.Airwave. We both know why you went back to get an Airwave. You've been
:47:03. > :47:07.drinking alcohol. I can smell it on your breath. In fact, not only can
:47:07. > :47:15.I smell it on your breath, I can smell it on your skin. Are you an
:47:15. > :47:18.alcoholic? No. You've got a can of Tennent's Super half-drunk in the
:47:18. > :47:24.cab in your centre console. Have you got rid of the Airwave in your
:47:24. > :47:31.mouth? No. Open the window, please, or open the door, drop the Airwave
:47:31. > :47:34.out of the car. When did you last have a drink? Oh...last night.
:47:34. > :47:37.What's that can of Tennent's Super, still fizzy, doing open there? It's
:47:37. > :47:41.from last night. The smell that was coming off him was just too strong
:47:41. > :47:44.for it to have been last night's drinking and from just one can. You
:47:44. > :47:48.do get a sixth sense. And... Having got the smell coming from the back
:47:48. > :47:51.of the car, looking into his eyes, his eyes were just yellow, yellow
:47:51. > :47:54.and bloodshot, and then I started thinking that perhaps things were a
:47:54. > :47:57.bit more serious than I first thought when I first got that smell.
:47:57. > :48:00.Further south, PC Simon Breckles and Martin Smith are still trying
:48:00. > :48:09.to find the phone they believe was being used by the driver. It's
:48:09. > :48:14.proving elusive. I checked every inch of that van. He said, "I
:48:14. > :48:19.haven't got it in my pockets,'" he looked through his pockets. I think
:48:19. > :48:23.he put it down his trousers. If they can locate it, they may be
:48:23. > :48:26.able to prove he was on a call. The reason I'm trying to get hold
:48:26. > :48:36.of your company is I'm trying to find out which pocket your phone is
:48:36. > :48:38.
:48:38. > :48:40.It's not in the van because there's absolutely no telephones in the van.
:48:40. > :48:44.There's just the hands-free equipment. When I ask them for your
:48:44. > :48:48.mobile phone, do you think it'll ring in one of your pockets? I can
:48:48. > :48:51.strip right here for you, if you like. I'm not going to ask you to
:48:51. > :48:54.do that, I've got no power to search you. I've said I'm happy to
:48:54. > :49:04.be stripped so... I know there's something not right because looking
:49:04. > :49:09.
:49:09. > :49:12.into that van, there's nowhere that Hello? Hello, I MPs meet -- and PC
:49:12. > :49:17.Smith. Oh have your bottom the police car with me. We have a
:49:17. > :49:24.problem, he can't find his mobile phone. Can you tell me his number?
:49:24. > :49:28.Thanks for your time. Goodbye. At least we will be able to find the
:49:28. > :49:38.phone now, won't we? Now he has done an's number, PC Smith makes
:49:38. > :49:45.
:49:45. > :49:54.the call. -- he has demand's number. Is it open, or on silent? I don't
:49:54. > :50:01.know. It's not ringing in here. I suspect he was under the assumption
:50:01. > :50:11.that if he had hit -- hid the fact with can't find the mobile
:50:11. > :50:31.
:50:31. > :50:36.court we will go to court. It is in his pocket. He switched it on this
:50:36. > :50:46.island. He put it in his pocket. Or in his trousers. But PC Smith
:50:46. > :50:50.
:50:50. > :51:00.something that made me suspicious it was quite noticeable that he put
:51:00. > :51:00.
:51:00. > :52:10.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 159 seconds
:52:10. > :52:19.was making sure there was something You do smell to me as if you're a
:52:19. > :52:23.regular drinker, and it's just All right? I acknowledge the fact
:52:23. > :52:25.that you're saying you had a drink last night, but there's an open can
:52:25. > :52:29.of Tennent's Super half drunk near to your centre console. Deep
:52:29. > :52:32.breaths, let me hold the machine, seal your lips around the tube and
:52:32. > :52:35.blow until I tell you to stop. Blow. Keep going, harder, harder, harder.
:52:35. > :52:42.Keep going. OK. Right, we're analysing that. I'll try and hold
:52:42. > :52:50.it so you can see it, it's a bit difficult. You've failed that test.
:52:50. > :52:54.You've blown what that says there. 92. 35 is the limit. What it means
:52:54. > :52:58.is you are two-and-half times the limit. You're joking! I wouldn't
:52:59. > :53:01.joke about something like that, would I? So, you're under arrest...
:53:01. > :53:07.I'd never have believed it. ..on suspicion of driving with alcohol
:53:07. > :53:10.on your breath. I'd never have believed it. You're over the limit.
:53:10. > :53:20.You're under caution, is there anything you want to say? I
:53:20. > :53:23.
:53:23. > :53:27.just...couldn't... Just don't believe it. OK. I think it would be
:53:27. > :53:30.more accurate to say he didn't want to believe it. Because he didn't
:53:30. > :53:32.exhibit a lot of the outward signs of drink-driving, or somebody under
:53:32. > :53:35.the influence of drink, i.e. He wasn't particularly unsteady on his
:53:35. > :53:38.feet, his speech wasn't slurred, when we got that reading, which was
:53:38. > :53:41.approaching three times the legal drink-drive limit, that did come as
:53:41. > :53:45.quite a shock. Bloody hell, I'd never have believed it. You drive a
:53:45. > :53:49.44-tonne lorry at 56 miles an hour and don't react quick enough, and
:53:49. > :53:52.go in to the back of a car, there is going to be damage. There is
:53:52. > :53:55.going to be injury. There's a good chance there's going to be a
:53:55. > :53:58.fatality. Oh, well. It's all right tutting, mate, but at the end of
:53:58. > :54:02.the day, you're the one that's been drinking, isn't it? Oh, well. It's
:54:02. > :54:05.all right tutting, mate, but at the end of the day, you're the one
:54:05. > :54:08.that's been drinking, isn't it? Well, I didn't think it was that
:54:08. > :54:12.much, I honestly didn't. Well, I'm not going to sit here and call you
:54:12. > :54:15.a liar but I can quite confidently say if you had three cans of beer
:54:15. > :54:23.last night, you wouldn't be blowing 92. It wasn't last night, though,
:54:23. > :54:27.was it? Yes. No, it wasn't. Not to blow that reading. You expect to
:54:27. > :54:30.find your drink drivers late in the night, early in the mornings on the
:54:30. > :54:33.weekend. What you don't expect to find is someone in the afternoon
:54:33. > :54:40.rush hour on Friday afternoon drunk, and so drunk that they're
:54:41. > :54:43.registering off the scale, really, when you take them out of the cab.
:54:44. > :54:48.For him to be driving a 44-tonne truck in those circumstances, it's
:54:48. > :54:52.just a killing machine. Now, the priority is to get the driver to
:54:53. > :54:59.the police station to confirm the reading. That means PC Nairn will
:54:59. > :55:05.move the truck off the motorway. I can smell the alcohol. He must have
:55:05. > :55:08.been drinking all day. You know, you can't have a good night out and
:55:08. > :55:13.still be 92 the following day at half-past four in the afternoon.
:55:13. > :55:17.You'd have to be drinking cans of lager throughout the day. I mean,
:55:17. > :55:23.that guy's got a serious problem. He shouldn't be behind the wheel of
:55:23. > :55:31.anything. You know, either a pushchair, or even a car itself. PC
:55:31. > :55:41.Nairn makes a further check of the cab. It seems like... ..our man...
:55:41. > :55:41.
:55:41. > :55:50.Likes to drink more than he drives. Special Brew. Best of stuff. That's
:55:50. > :55:56.9% volume. I think this one's 9% as well. Yeah, both 9%. So there's...
:55:56. > :56:06...10 cans. He was in for a good night. But he'll be having a very
:56:06. > :56:10.
:56:10. > :56:15.different night tonight. He said, "I WAS a lorry driver." I think he
:56:15. > :56:19.knew. He knew how much he'd had to drink. He knew what the machine was
:56:19. > :56:23.going to come back. He knew he was going to be over and what his fate
:56:23. > :56:26.was. Blow. It's been approximately two hours since he blew nearly
:56:26. > :56:36.three times the limit at the roadside. But this is the test that
:56:36. > :56:38.
:56:38. > :56:41.counts. Right, you can sit down and take a rest now. Right, the
:56:41. > :56:49.readings there are 73 and 69, so we'll go on 69. So that's still
:56:49. > :56:54.over the limit? That is just under... Just under twice the legal
:56:54. > :56:57.limit. In that two hours, you have lost some alcohol from your body,
:56:57. > :57:02.but you're still, two hours after we stopped you driving, double the
:57:02. > :57:06.drink-drive limit. I really am surprised. If we hadn't taken him
:57:06. > :57:09.off the road in the state he was in, bearing in mind he's probably been
:57:09. > :57:15.in that state most days he's been out driving his truck, then I think
:57:15. > :57:18.we've saved somebody's life. Let's look at what this bloke was doing.
:57:18. > :57:23.He was driving a big truck, 44 tonnes, at twice the drink-drive
:57:23. > :57:26.limit. If that's not criminal, I don't know what is. The trucker who
:57:26. > :57:33.was just under twice the legal limit was convicted of drink-
:57:33. > :57:36.driving, fined �115 and banned for 18 months. The driver who couldn't
:57:36. > :57:42.find his phone didn't pay his ticket but no further action was
:57:42. > :57:44.taken against him. The man with the baseball bat in his car was
:57:44. > :57:47.cautioned for possessing an offensive weapon. He was also fined
:57:47. > :57:55.�525 and received six points on his licence for driving without
:57:55. > :57:57.insurance. The driver of the overturned car was convicted of
:57:57. > :58:03.driving without due care and attention and received a �250 fine
:58:03. > :58:06.and eight points on his licence. The trucker who exceeded his
:58:06. > :58:14.driving hours was convicted of driving on a provisional licence,
:58:14. > :58:17.fined �315, and received six points on his licence. And the driver of