0:00:01 > 0:00:03120 received. We are en route now.
0:00:03 > 0:00:07'Working as a motorway cop means being prepared...'
0:00:07 > 0:00:11So is the Corsa that he's clipped post-collision with the horses?
0:00:11 > 0:00:13'..for anything that comes your way.'
0:00:13 > 0:00:17Keep them here till we've got drivers.
0:00:18 > 0:00:23'Where keeping your cool...' I'm not going nowhere! Oi. Wind your neck in.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27'..and dealing with the unexpected is all part of the job.'
0:00:31 > 0:00:33The main thing is, you keep an open mind.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38It's dangerous to be complacent. Anything can happen and quite often does.
0:01:02 > 0:01:07'It's the evening rush hour on the M62 between Leeds and Bradford.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13'But tonight the problem is just off the motorway.'
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Tango-eight-zero, we'll attend that one, as well.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19'In Birkenshaw, PCs Andy Bell and Wayne Baker
0:01:19 > 0:01:22'are on their way to an accident involving a horse
0:01:22 > 0:01:24'which has been hit by a car.'
0:01:24 > 0:01:28The problems with an animal and livestock is we haven't got the means
0:01:28 > 0:01:31of dealing with them and controlling them at the scene,
0:01:31 > 0:01:37so it's almost inevitable that we're going to need a vet or some kind of assistance
0:01:37 > 0:01:40to either put the thing to sleep or to sedate it
0:01:40 > 0:01:45so we can make sure that it's not going to cause any other problems for other road-users.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Normally when we attend animal incidents,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53it's sheep, dogs, cats, much smaller animals,
0:01:53 > 0:01:55so this was quite out of the ordinary for us.
0:01:56 > 0:02:01I don't know about the lighting in the area. Obviously, it's dark now,
0:02:01 > 0:02:06so if it is in a dark area, the horse isn't going to be illuminated in any way,
0:02:06 > 0:02:10so it's going to become more of a hazard if it is in the road.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13'The accident is on an important link route
0:02:13 > 0:02:18'between the nearby motorway and a major trunk road connecting Bradford and Wakefield.
0:02:18 > 0:02:23'And as Andy and Wayne approach the scene, traffic is already at a standstill.'
0:02:23 > 0:02:29We're here now. There's a Fiat Punto here with quite substantial damage to the windscreen.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33They've closed the road. I can see an officer in front of the other traffic car
0:02:33 > 0:02:37that may be with the horse.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41But we're going to go and just ascertain what's exactly taken place.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51I'm just wondering whether to shut it at the roundabout and get them to go round
0:02:51 > 0:02:54or bring them past. It's just what they're going to see.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58We haven't got any screens. No, we'll leave it shut. That's the best thing.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04I don't know the full ins and out of how the accident's happened at the moment,
0:03:04 > 0:03:08but the Fiat Punto has obviously been in collision with the horse.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11At the moment, the horse is in quite a bad way.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15It's got a broken leg that's been severed
0:03:15 > 0:03:18and the bone's showing, there's quite a lot of blood.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22So the horse is in quite a distressed state. The owners are with it
0:03:22 > 0:03:25and they're trying to calm it down and keep it calm while we get a vet here.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30So the vet's on the way. How long they're going to be we're just waiting to find out.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32So I'll go and try and find out what's happened
0:03:32 > 0:03:34in terms of the accident and how it's happened.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Any type of loose livestock or wildlife
0:03:40 > 0:03:43can quite easily lead to a fatal collision
0:03:43 > 0:03:45or fatalities, multiple.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Hi, buddy. Hi. You all right? Yeah, not bad.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Are you driver? I am, yes. Hiya.
0:03:55 > 0:04:00On that occasion, the driver of the vehicle was extremely lucky.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02On another day,
0:04:02 > 0:04:06you could be talking about something far, far more serious.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10'Wayne must work out if the driver was at fault.'
0:04:10 > 0:04:12What's happened, then?
0:04:12 > 0:04:16Erm, I was just coming up here. Yeah.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Can you see that black van there? I can.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24About... Well, I've been told about four horses run out
0:04:24 > 0:04:26and I just hit one of them.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30So they've run out from... From... Sorry, just that road there.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Right. And they've just all run out.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Right. So it's run out in front of you? Yeah.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38How fast were you going at the time? Erm...
0:04:39 > 0:04:4335, maybe 40. OK, then, no problem.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47Just sit tight, I'll be back with you in a sec. How's it looking down there?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Er, the horse is in a bit of a bad way at the moment. I've seen its leg.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Yeah. So the horse is in a bad way, there's quite a lot of blood.
0:04:53 > 0:04:58Whether the horse will make it or not, I don't know, but we'll wait for the vet to get here
0:04:58 > 0:05:00and let them have a look at it.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03'A lorry driver is the main witness to the crash.'
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Did you see the accident happen?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07I gave the details to him. Yeah.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10So were you behind the Punto? I was there.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Oh, you're coming down the other way.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17I've just come down the road here and I've seen this car swerve.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20I couldn't really see why it swerved with it being so dark.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24And then I noticed that there were five horses in the middle of the road
0:05:24 > 0:05:28and the car's hit one of them and the other four have all run off
0:05:28 > 0:05:30down the side of the road.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34So I've pulled over and managed to retrieve one of the horses.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39And another gentleman got out, he managed to keep the other three pinned in to one side.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44'The witnesses confirm the driver had a very lucky escape.'
0:05:46 > 0:05:48He hasn't really seen this animal
0:05:48 > 0:05:51until it's been in the road in front of him,
0:05:51 > 0:05:57so his chances of reacting and avoiding it is nil.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59And the thing's just been on top of him straight away.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02So it's a fairly traumatic thing for the driver of the car.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07Something of that size and weight coming towards the windscreen of your car,
0:06:07 > 0:06:11the natural thing you're going to do is kind of protect your face
0:06:11 > 0:06:15and probably let go of the steering wheel and let go of all control of the car.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19And in fairness, that could've swerved across into some oncoming cars
0:06:19 > 0:06:21and we could've had a serious head-on collision,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24but as it works out, the driver's done remarkably well.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27'Now that he's worked out the sequence of events
0:06:27 > 0:06:31'and cleared the driver of blame, Wayne examines the car
0:06:31 > 0:06:33'to try to reconstruct exactly what happened
0:06:33 > 0:06:36'when it hit the half-ton horse.'
0:06:36 > 0:06:39If the bottom of the car here has gone under its legs,
0:06:39 > 0:06:42the body of the horse would've been flung onto the windscreen
0:06:42 > 0:06:44and the roof itself, as you can see there,
0:06:44 > 0:06:49so it's probably taken a fair old impact, has the car.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54And that's obviously where the body of the horse has landed, so it's then come off the car.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59It's probably gone over the top of the car, looking at it,
0:06:59 > 0:07:04and scraped off down this side. The car's naturally come to a stop.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08So I'm quite happy with the speeds that he's given me, around 35 miles an hour.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13I wouldn't disagree with that, I think that's fair in view of the wet conditions.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16'It's now been 20 minutes since the accident
0:07:16 > 0:07:20'and the vet still hasn't arrived to deal with the distressed horse.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23'Several workers from a nearby stables are holding the injured animal down,
0:07:23 > 0:07:28'both to stop it hurting itself further or causing more chaos on the road.'
0:07:28 > 0:07:32We're quite keen to open the road, but we can't distress the horse any further.
0:07:32 > 0:07:37It's in quite a bad way and the main thing is we've got the welfare of the animal to consider
0:07:37 > 0:07:39as well as everybody else,
0:07:39 > 0:07:42but we'll certainly get it open as soon as we can,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44it's just a matter of waiting for the vet to get here
0:07:44 > 0:07:48to either put the horse to sleep or if we can look at getting the horse
0:07:48 > 0:07:51removed from the scene and out of the way, if the vet's happy, then we'll do that.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55'While they wait anxiously for the vet to arrive...
0:07:58 > 0:08:02'..15 miles away, just off the M62 in west Leeds,
0:08:02 > 0:08:04'the cops are tracking a speeding car.'
0:08:09 > 0:08:12As soon as I turned round and began to follow them,
0:08:12 > 0:08:14I could see that they were twice the speed limit,
0:08:14 > 0:08:17so straight away you're trying to get resources in place
0:08:17 > 0:08:20to put a stop to any potential pursuit.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23'As more information comes in on the car,
0:08:23 > 0:08:27'the cops have another reason why they want to stop the car and talk to the driver.'
0:08:35 > 0:08:40'Other police units, including PCs Rob Jones and Ben Waite, are making their way to help.'
0:08:44 > 0:08:49There was every chance that it was the kind of car that would fail to stop for us if we asked it to.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Given his manner of driving, how he was pushing people out of the way,
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Ben and I felt a need to get to Mick to help him with that just in case.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02'As PC Mick Roffe's onboard camera shows,
0:09:02 > 0:09:05'at times the Seat driver is pushing 90 miles an hour.'
0:09:08 > 0:09:10And he's headed for the busy city centre.'
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Our main focus there
0:09:15 > 0:09:19is to not get into a pursuit in a city area at that time of night
0:09:19 > 0:09:23with bad guys, because it's all just going to end badly.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31We're just coming onto the 58, mate.
0:09:31 > 0:09:36'The cops need to take action now before the car leaves the relative safety of the ring road.'
0:09:41 > 0:09:43We are coming towards you on 58.
0:09:46 > 0:09:51"I'm into the underpass. Stick with me."
0:09:53 > 0:09:55OK, mate.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Mick's got behind it and it appears to be trying to get away from him.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07We're behind him now, giving him reinforcements.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11'As Rob and Ben catch up to Mick's unmarked car,
0:10:11 > 0:10:17'he puts on his blues and prepares to stop the silver car which is just ahead of him.'
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Whoa!
0:10:27 > 0:10:32Hey! Chill out! Ey up! BLEEP not going nowhere, you BLEEP!
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Oi! Wind your neck in.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38What's wrong with you? Nowt. Why you following me?
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Driving like that, we think it's nicked.
0:10:42 > 0:10:48Lads, we'll start again in a second. We're all right. I BLEEP!
0:10:48 > 0:10:52You've got just to try and calm it down, because it's only going to escalate,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55so you've just got to take a step back. Instead of shouting as well,
0:10:55 > 0:10:59you've got to come down and say, "Look, guys, it's only going to go one way,
0:10:59 > 0:11:03"you're detained, you're cuffed, you are going to be searched. Just calm yourselves down."
0:11:03 > 0:11:06'The cops want to know a bit more about who they're dealing with,
0:11:06 > 0:11:08'so while Mick runs checks on them,
0:11:08 > 0:11:13'Rob talks to the driver about why he was speeding at 90 miles an hour.'
0:11:13 > 0:11:16I'm a wanted man, me. I've got a few enemies. Have you? Yeah.
0:11:16 > 0:11:21I thought I might have been getting shot. If you're moving, you can't get... What?
0:11:21 > 0:11:24As long as you keep moving, what's the problem? You haven't got to drive faster.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28They shoot... These BLEEP shoot out of cars these days.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33He thought there were people after him and he was going to be the victim of a drive-by shooting,
0:11:33 > 0:11:36like we're in South Central Los Angeles and not Leeds.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38What have you got two phones for?
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Bitches and wife. HE LAUGHS
0:11:42 > 0:11:46'Now things have calmed down, the driver's claiming he's a reformed character.'
0:11:48 > 0:11:52My joy-riding days are behind me now. Give over with you!
0:11:52 > 0:11:56'But Mick's sure the men were trying to get away from him.'
0:11:56 > 0:11:59I got in behind them and they absolutely nailed it.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03They were twice the speed limit and they were absolutely flying.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06We got onto the underpass section, which is the inner ring road,
0:12:06 > 0:12:10and it's two lanes of traffic and you can't get anywhere else,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14but he was in and out, lane one, lane two, trying to force his way through,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17so it had all the hallmarks to me that they were going to fail to stop.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20I've been pulled in yesterday and today!
0:12:21 > 0:12:24It must be the way you're driving!
0:12:24 > 0:12:27'Information coming back from the police national database
0:12:27 > 0:12:30'reveals both men are well-known to the police.'
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Having stopped and spoken to them and found out who they are,
0:12:33 > 0:12:35they're prolific burglars,
0:12:35 > 0:12:38so their MO is to basically break into people's houses,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41steal car keys and steal high-value vehicles.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Jump out for us.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46'The cops decide to take the men in for questioning,
0:12:46 > 0:12:49'but before they do, Rob searches the driver.'
0:12:49 > 0:12:52There's nowt you shouldn't have? No.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54No gear, no drugs, no guns, no...
0:12:54 > 0:12:58They're all in the boot. They're all in the boot, are them?
0:12:58 > 0:13:03They were very, very confident, a lot of bravado, a lot of banter. That can usually mean two things.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08It can mean, one, they're trying to throw us off the scent, or two, they haven't got anything.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10You've got some cash in that pocket.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12How much cash you got on you? Not a lot.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15What do you call not a lot? That looked quite a lot to me.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19In my pocket? Yeah. About 300 quid, isn't it?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24It's Friday night. What's that got to do with owt?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27You're stopping me from partying.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31'The men and their car will be taken to Leeds Bridewell Police Station.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39'Back in Birkenshaw, just off the M62,
0:13:39 > 0:13:42'PCs Andy Bell and Wayne Baker
0:13:42 > 0:13:44'are waiting for an emergency vet to arrive
0:13:44 > 0:13:46'to treat a badly injured horse hit by a car.'
0:13:48 > 0:13:50I do know a lot of people who have horses
0:13:50 > 0:13:52and I know there's a lot of very upset young girls
0:13:52 > 0:13:56who were coming out of this lane to our left with the horses.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00We understand that the farm is where the horses are from up here
0:14:00 > 0:14:03and they use this field during the day,
0:14:03 > 0:14:05so the horses have come down the lane,
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I think they've been unsupervised, and they've come into the road
0:14:08 > 0:14:12and that's when the collision's taken place. But it's traumatic for everybody
0:14:12 > 0:14:18cos there's blood and the horse has suffered quite a nasty break to one of its legs, so it's not very nice.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22One of the main considerations I had when I was there
0:14:22 > 0:14:25was whilst we'd closed the road to traffic,
0:14:25 > 0:14:27we still had pedestrians coming down.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Can you two be really big for me and just stay there?
0:14:31 > 0:14:34I'll have a quick word with, is it Dad? Yes.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38He's done nothing wrong, don't worry. I just want to have a quick chat with Dad but without you.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41There's a horse that's really badly injured
0:14:41 > 0:14:44and I don't want the children walking past it if it's going to distress them.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Just to make you aware, it is laid in the road, there's a lot of blood.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55A lot of children go horse-riding and just seeing that sight
0:14:55 > 0:14:59might live with them for a little while, so we don't want the kids going near.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02But certainly, people that are involved with the horse
0:15:02 > 0:15:04and the owners of it,
0:15:04 > 0:15:09they've obviously been upset, they're crying, they're hugging each other,
0:15:09 > 0:15:13so I think we know what's likely to happen when the vet gets here.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18I think they're going to put the horse to sleep to put it out of any pain and suffering.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21So I think they're sort of preparing themselves for that now.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27'With the vet struggling to get through the backed-up traffic and the horse increasingly distressed,
0:15:27 > 0:15:32'the motorway cops have arranged for firearms officers to attend.'
0:15:32 > 0:15:36What are you looking to do? Well, we might have to try and dispatch it ourselves,
0:15:36 > 0:15:40but we're going to need a lot of space, if that's all right, mate. Right.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44We, as police officers but also as human beings,
0:15:44 > 0:15:46want to have the thing put out of its misery straight away.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49And the sooner we can do that, the better.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Our force supervision have dispatched the firearms cars
0:15:53 > 0:15:57with a view to, in effect, dispatching the horse on the scene here.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00At the moment, we need to look at getting the roads closed
0:16:00 > 0:16:03for quite some distance so they can work safely.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08It's important that we don't, you know, shock people, upset people
0:16:08 > 0:16:11as a result of something we do, but we've also got to balance that
0:16:11 > 0:16:14with the fact that the horse was unlikely to survive.
0:16:14 > 0:16:22'The road's been shut for half an hour and the traffic stretches back to the M62, three miles away.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28'Fortunately, the vet has finally made her way through the jam.'
0:16:28 > 0:16:32Some of the logistics that we have in terms of whether a firearm is used or not
0:16:32 > 0:16:36is the locality of where we are. There's some houses here.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39The type of weapon that they'd have to use
0:16:39 > 0:16:44and the ammunition that they'd have to use, there'll be scattering behind it from the ammunition,
0:16:44 > 0:16:49so it's not ideal for us to use firearms, really.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52So the fact that the vet's here now is superb, cos they can deal with it
0:16:52 > 0:16:55and we don't necessarily have to go down those lines anymore.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59You know that as soon as the vet arrives,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02a lethal injection will put the thing to sleep.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06And that relieves a lot of tension and strain and emotion
0:17:06 > 0:17:09from the people who are involved.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14As upsetting as it is, I don't want to see any animals put down,
0:17:14 > 0:17:16I don't want to see any suffering to any of them,
0:17:16 > 0:17:19but we've still got to consider the travelling public,
0:17:19 > 0:17:21the fact that we've got the road closed,
0:17:21 > 0:17:26the fact that there may be other people around here that are a little bit traumatised and upset
0:17:26 > 0:17:28by what they've witnessed or seen laid on the ground,
0:17:28 > 0:17:33so we've got to consider, sort of, the wider picture
0:17:33 > 0:17:35for everybody else, really,
0:17:35 > 0:17:40and make sure that we're doing the best thing by the animal, best thing by the owners and everyone involved,
0:17:40 > 0:17:43but also we're dealing with it as expeditiously as we can
0:17:43 > 0:17:46so we cause as little disruption to everybody else.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51'While the traffic and the cops wait for the vet to put the injured horse to sleep...
0:17:53 > 0:17:55'..30 miles away near Wakefield,
0:17:55 > 0:18:00'officers Mick McQuade and Dale Anderson are just starting their night shift.'
0:18:01 > 0:18:04We're straight out of the door, as soon as we've started, we've had a message
0:18:04 > 0:18:10of a serious collision, one that sounds pretty much as serious as they get on the motorway.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13A car's apparently trapped underneath a heavy goods vehicle.
0:18:13 > 0:18:19'The crash is on the M1, just five miles south of their Wakefield base.'
0:18:19 > 0:18:25For me, the priorities are obviously for the life and limb of the people in the car.
0:18:25 > 0:18:31If it has gone underneath a truck, the likelihood of it being very serious is very highly probable.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Nine-zero, we're ten seconds away.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39'Tonight, Dale is acting sergeant,
0:18:39 > 0:18:43'so it's his responsibility to manage the investigation.'
0:18:43 > 0:18:48An officer has already got the scene as such.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51What we're trying to do is get some cones out just to protect us.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55There's not really much point in us all being up there
0:18:55 > 0:18:59when there's cars coming at 70, 80, 90 miles an hour behind us.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03'His first job is to make the scene safe for him and other officers.'
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Can you help us get it coned off?
0:19:06 > 0:19:09'Only then can he concentrate on finding out what's happened.'
0:19:11 > 0:19:14This is literally walking into the unknown.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18We're looking at a car there. Unless there's a third vehicle involved,
0:19:18 > 0:19:20it may not be as serious as first thought.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24But, in fact, there is another vehicle up ahead
0:19:24 > 0:19:29which is certainly wedged into the under bars of the heavy goods vehicle.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Luckily, it's passenger side. Let's just hope there was only a driver in it.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42When you open that door and it's dark, you don't know what you're going to be greeted with.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45It could be an empty seat or, to the extreme,
0:19:45 > 0:19:49you could be dealing with a dead body in there.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52'But no-one's trapped inside the car,
0:19:52 > 0:19:56'and amazingly, it appears there are no serious casualties.'
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Is everybody out? Yeah.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00When you open the door and you realise,
0:20:00 > 0:20:04even though injuries may be serious, they're not life-threatening,
0:20:04 > 0:20:07it changes the sort of approach entirely.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11'Two cars and an HGV are involved.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15'One car has got off lightly but another has sustained major damage.'
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Once we realised everyone was OK, the focus goes onto
0:20:21 > 0:20:24trying to highlight who was actually involved and who was driving,
0:20:24 > 0:20:28because there was clearly far too many people walking up and down the hard shoulder
0:20:28 > 0:20:31to have been involved directly.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33People had clearly come afterwards somehow.
0:20:33 > 0:20:39And we need to make sure we're getting a true account early on.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Were you involved or have you come afterwards? I got a phone call...
0:20:43 > 0:20:46'The men who were in the cars all appear to know each other,
0:20:46 > 0:20:50'and to add to the confusion, another car full of their friends has stopped to get involved.'
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Which one are you driver of? This one.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56I'm not a driver.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Wait a minute. Keep them here till we've got drivers.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Keep them here till we've got drivers.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05It was quite a confusing scene,
0:21:05 > 0:21:09because we were expecting to see one car and one truck involved in a collision
0:21:09 > 0:21:13and that's not what we were greeted with. That's not very uncommon.
0:21:13 > 0:21:19We also dealt with the unusual scene of ten people stood on the hard shoulder.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Who's got the key to this? Give me the key.
0:21:21 > 0:21:27Until we've found out who the drivers are, I don't want anybody to leave. I'm the driver. Of this? Yeah.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Who's the driver of that? It's him. What's his name?
0:21:30 > 0:21:35If he's rung you, he's got to have told you. What's his name? Not what you call him. Ohmo.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38Right, I've got keys to that until we get the drivers.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42We were wanting to find out who's to blame and who's the offenders
0:21:42 > 0:21:45and we're wanting to make sure we get the right people.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50Because we don't always, funnily enough, get told the truth.
0:21:50 > 0:21:55'Dale's priority is to identify the drivers of the two damaged cars,
0:21:55 > 0:21:59'the black Astra that's crushed under the HGV
0:21:59 > 0:22:02'and the blue Seat that's hit the crash barrier.'
0:22:02 > 0:22:07Which car were you driving? That one. You were driving that one? All right.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09And my mate was driving that one. Who was driving the Astra?
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Can you just keep hold of him for the time being?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19'Having identified the driver of the blue Seat,
0:22:19 > 0:22:22'Dale needs to verify who was driving the black Astra.'
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Can I just confirm who was the driver of the Astra?
0:22:25 > 0:22:30I don't know. The one I've been with down at the bottom was in the front passenger.
0:22:30 > 0:22:36Right. So... Cos everyone's pointing the finger of the Astra driver at this guy.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Is it your car, the Astra? Yeah.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41You were driving it? Yeah. Yeah.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45'A full statement will have to wait until the man's been seen at hospital,
0:22:45 > 0:22:48'but at least Dale has managed to sort out who the key players are.'
0:22:48 > 0:22:53I've got everybody's details from the Seat. I've got driver detail of the Astra.
0:22:53 > 0:22:58So... Astra? Yeah, which was under here. I thought it was a BM.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01It's a Mark 4 Astra. Oh.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Right, if you've got the details... I've got the drivers.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08I've got the Seat so we'll check everybody else. Right.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12'Now the cops know who's involved,
0:23:12 > 0:23:16'they can move on to finding out who caused the accident.'
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Many millions of journeys are made on a motorway daily
0:23:21 > 0:23:23and not many end like that,
0:23:23 > 0:23:30so you've got to ask what's gone wrong in this circumstance to cause this.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35'As the investigation continues...
0:23:37 > 0:23:39'..ten miles away in Leeds,
0:23:39 > 0:23:43'PC Ben Waite is bringing in the two men who were stopped
0:23:43 > 0:23:47'after hitting speeds of 90 miles an hour on the city's inner ring road.'
0:23:52 > 0:23:56You've got your ski jacket on, buddy. We're getting out in a second.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58'While they're taken in for questioning,
0:23:58 > 0:24:01'Ben and PC Mick Roffe search the car for anything that might explain
0:24:01 > 0:24:04'why they seemed so keen to avoid being stopped.'
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Keep an eye on these boys.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Look at the belts clipped underneath them. Yeah.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16Clipped in underneath the seat so they can get round.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19And then if you come round the back, you can see that they're clipped...
0:24:21 > 0:24:24..around the back of the seats. There's no way they can be worn.
0:24:25 > 0:24:31Both of them are like that. It's the usual MO. They clip them out of the way and they're out and running.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Happy under the bonnet, mate.
0:24:33 > 0:24:38Unfortunately, there's been no items found or any items in relation to going equipped to steal,
0:24:38 > 0:24:41so they're going to be released.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45But they commit an offence by not wearing a seat belt, so we'll deal with him for that.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48We like to deal with anything positively as best we can,
0:24:48 > 0:24:50so they'll both be getting seat belt tickets.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53'The men won't be prosecuted for speeding
0:24:53 > 0:24:56'because Mick didn't have time to run an average speed check
0:24:56 > 0:24:58'over a long enough stretch of road.'
0:24:58 > 0:25:01These guys I only followed for a short distance
0:25:01 > 0:25:05and ultimately, when we got into the underpass, they'd come down to the speed limit,
0:25:05 > 0:25:08purely because other cars had stopped them going fast.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Inner ring roads and that kind of urban motorway,
0:25:12 > 0:25:16two lanes, very fast-flowing traffic, are very dangerous places.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Had they continued to drive at that kind of speed,
0:25:18 > 0:25:20I would've dealt with him for speeding.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23You're lucky you're only getting a seat belt ticket.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26Do you want to watch the video, see how quick you were going?
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Yeah, exactly. You're lucky.
0:25:30 > 0:25:35At the end of the day, if that's all you can find on that particular occasion, it's all you can deal with.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Wearing your seat belt is important.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40I still don't want them to go through a windscreen
0:25:40 > 0:25:44and end up killing or seriously injuring themselves or anybody else.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Right, see you later, fellas. Cheers, lads.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54'Seven miles south of Bradford,
0:25:54 > 0:25:59'the vet has put down the horse which was badly injured when a car hit it.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01'The driver is still at the scene.'
0:26:01 > 0:26:05It was an accident and... you didn't stand a chance.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10'It's a shock to the whole community.'
0:26:12 > 0:26:14It's a tragic, tragic accident
0:26:14 > 0:26:18and, you know, you feel for everybody involved.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22It's just very, very distressing. But at the end of the day, no human life was lost.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26But the devastation that the death of the horse
0:26:26 > 0:26:30is going to cause the owner is beyond words. It's very distressing.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34'Until now, the surviving horses have been corralled in the field.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36'As they're led back to the stables,
0:26:36 > 0:26:41'local farmers are helping to clear the blood and debris from the road.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45'Meanwhile, the driver is still struggling to come to terms with the accident.'
0:26:45 > 0:26:48It hasn't really sunk in yet.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51I think I'm still in shock a bit.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57It's never nice, is it, when an animal or person gets hurt.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02He probably had no idea what he'd hit and what was happening
0:27:02 > 0:27:05during that few seconds around the impact,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08and that thing's come through the windscreen.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11I don't know what he was going through at that moment
0:27:11 > 0:27:14but it wasn't a good place and I wouldn't want to go through it.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16'With the road finally open,
0:27:16 > 0:27:20'the three-mile backlog of traffic begins to clear.'
0:27:20 > 0:27:23As you can see, once we get our vehicle moved,
0:27:23 > 0:27:26the road's good to go, so we're back up and running.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29'Keeping the roads open is a priority,
0:27:29 > 0:27:32'but that doesn't mean the cops aren't affected by the accident.'
0:27:32 > 0:27:37Sometimes members of the public think, when we're at these kinds of incidents,
0:27:37 > 0:27:42"They appeared, the facade was that they're not caring
0:27:42 > 0:27:45"and why are they not upset like we all are?"
0:27:45 > 0:27:48And it is exactly that. It's a facade that we put on
0:27:48 > 0:27:52to prevent us... so we're able to do our job and deal with what we've got.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56When we think about it afterwards, that's when it becomes upsetting.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11'On the M1, the crash investigation involving an HGV,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14'a black Astra that ended up underneath it
0:28:14 > 0:28:17'and a blue Seat that struck the barrier is continuing.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20'PCs Dale Anderson and Mick McQuade are trying to piece together
0:28:20 > 0:28:22'the events leading to the crash.
0:28:22 > 0:28:27'They suspect one or both cars were out of control before they hit the HGV.'
0:28:27 > 0:28:31At the moment, we're just trying to establish the position of each vehicle
0:28:31 > 0:28:34just prior to the collision and who's the blame, basically.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37'They're speaking to everyone involved
0:28:37 > 0:28:40'but each has a different story to tell.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43'With the Astra driver on his way to hospital,
0:28:43 > 0:28:46'Dale focuses on the driver of the blue Seat.'
0:28:46 > 0:28:49Come and have a chat with me and just tell me what's happened.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52We were driving... All right. Bear in mind, the motorway's not empty
0:28:52 > 0:28:57and other people have told us what's happened, so please... I was driving about 75, 80 miles per hour.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00I was driving. I don't know where my mate is cos I've not seen his car.
0:29:00 > 0:29:04So what's happened, all of a sudden, something's hit me from the side.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08'Dale seeks out the other witness, the HGV lorry driver,
0:29:08 > 0:29:12'in the hope he may be able to shed more light on events.'
0:29:12 > 0:29:18Hello, sir. Can you tell me anything what's happened so that a car's ended up in the side of your truck?
0:29:18 > 0:29:21I heard this almighty bump into the side of me
0:29:21 > 0:29:24and then this car, this Seat Leon,
0:29:24 > 0:29:27started turning about in front of me.
0:29:27 > 0:29:29I thought I was going to crash into it again.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32And then it just managed to move a little bit more
0:29:32 > 0:29:35and ended up halfway on the grass.
0:29:35 > 0:29:39So when I came to a halt here, this other car came from nowhere
0:29:39 > 0:29:42and crashed into the side of the trailer.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45How the guy got out and walked away from that, I don't know.
0:29:45 > 0:29:47I don't know if all these guys are together or what.
0:29:47 > 0:29:50OK, thanks, sir.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54'If the cars were switching lanes at speed,
0:29:54 > 0:29:57'it could explain what caused the accident.'
0:29:57 > 0:30:02Let's have a look down the side of this Seat, see if we can find any damage,
0:30:02 > 0:30:04which will say which side it was on.
0:30:06 > 0:30:09Mick. 'The cops believe the Astra driver
0:30:09 > 0:30:13'may have been overtaking the Seat on the inside and hit it
0:30:13 > 0:30:15'before spinning under the HGV.'
0:30:15 > 0:30:17There's a lot of damage to the rear offside.
0:30:18 > 0:30:22I think that's where the initial impact is between them,
0:30:22 > 0:30:24between the Astra and this,
0:30:24 > 0:30:26which would suggest the Astra's in lane one.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29I think the Astra's been in lane one.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35What we're doing is, we're piecing together a big jigsaw.
0:30:35 > 0:30:40We take into account what people say, we take into account what we see,
0:30:40 > 0:30:45and we just try and put a picture together of what happened.
0:30:46 > 0:30:49'The investigation will continue.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54'But the evidence so far points to the Astra driver,
0:30:54 > 0:30:57'whose car ended up under the lorry, being at fault.'
0:30:57 > 0:31:01The main thing is to prove... If there are any offences, we are keen to prove
0:31:01 > 0:31:04who has committed the offences and bring them to task, really.
0:31:04 > 0:31:07Cos these people do need dealing with quite thoroughly
0:31:07 > 0:31:10to prevent road collisions and deaths on the road.
0:31:18 > 0:31:22'Britain has just over 2,000 miles of motorways.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24'They're among the safest roads in Europe,
0:31:24 > 0:31:27'as long as you're in a vehicle.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33'But for pedestrians, there's nowhere more dangerous.'
0:31:33 > 0:31:36You drive along, your radio's on, you're comfortable, you're warm,
0:31:36 > 0:31:39you don't really take into account the dangers of roads.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42If you stand at the side of a road like that
0:31:42 > 0:31:44and see the traffic going past, it's absolutely frightening.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49'Not surprisingly, it's illegal for pedestrians or cyclists
0:31:49 > 0:31:52'to use the motorway at any time.'
0:31:52 > 0:31:54A lot of people have no problem at all
0:31:54 > 0:31:58just walking in between two motorway junctions if it's a short distance,
0:31:58 > 0:32:01they think they're safe on the hard shoulder. But they're not.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07'And at night, when visibility is poor,
0:32:07 > 0:32:10'the motorways are particularly dangerous.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13'On the A1M near Pontefract,
0:32:13 > 0:32:16'Phil Stonebanks and Dave Robson are on patrol.'
0:32:16 > 0:32:18What the bloody hell?
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Jesus!
0:32:28 > 0:32:31Tango-nine-zero.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38On the opposite carriageway, we've just seen two young teenagers
0:32:38 > 0:32:40on pedal cycles, cycling down the A1.
0:32:40 > 0:32:44We're going to try and turn round to catch them.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47Only looked about probably 12, 13 years old,
0:32:47 > 0:32:51but we're just going to see if we can head round and intercept them
0:32:51 > 0:32:55and just find out who they are, where they're from and what they're doing on the motorway.
0:32:55 > 0:33:00"Just confirm, pedal cyclists travelling on the southbound carriageway?" Yep.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03They're on the southbound carriageway travelling north.
0:33:03 > 0:33:07This is our job. "OK, thank you."
0:33:11 > 0:33:15Maybe they've disappeared already. They should be somewhere round here.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21'The cyclists may be locals, taking a late-night shortcut.'
0:33:23 > 0:33:25This is where they were.
0:33:30 > 0:33:34I'm guessing they've disappeared down the embankment onto the road below.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36Certainly not round here.
0:33:36 > 0:33:41Unfortunately, we weren't able to get to them. We had to go up to the next junction, turn and come back.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44By the time we'd done that, they'd disappeared off the network.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48They might do that on a regular basis,
0:33:48 > 0:33:50cycling up and down the motorway,
0:33:50 > 0:33:54so eventually it's likely that someone will hit them.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56We don't want that to happen, so it'd be nice to catch them
0:33:56 > 0:34:00and just take them home and suitably advise them in front of their parents,
0:34:00 > 0:34:03cos I've no doubt the parents have no idea what they're doing.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06So it's an accident waiting to happen, something like that.
0:34:11 > 0:34:16If we had found them, they would've had somewhat of a dressing down, to say the least.
0:34:16 > 0:34:21Cos they're just putting themselves and everyone else in so much danger and they haven't got a clue.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24That's what they need. Maybe they don't get it at home, I don't know.
0:34:24 > 0:34:29But they've got to realise that motorways are just not safe places to play.
0:34:30 > 0:34:35'But taking shortcuts on the motorway is a huge problem for the cops,
0:34:35 > 0:34:38'especially where the roads meet built-up areas.'
0:34:39 > 0:34:43If an opportunity presents itself to get home ten minutes quicker, people take it.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47It's just not worth it. Would you walk down a railway line?
0:34:48 > 0:34:52I dare say most people wouldn't. So what's the difference?
0:34:52 > 0:34:55The outcome will probably be the same if you're involved in something.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03'It's 3am on the M621 near Leeds.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06'The city and the roads leading into it are quiet.
0:35:06 > 0:35:11'But PCs Mick McQuade and Dale Anderson still have work to do.'
0:35:11 > 0:35:15We've just been dispatched to a call of a male on the motorway
0:35:15 > 0:35:18waving his arms around, possibly chasing another male on the carriageway.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22It's an urban motorway.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24We do quite often get people coming from the estates
0:35:24 > 0:35:27onto the network for all kinds of reasons,
0:35:27 > 0:35:29one of which is possible mental health issues.
0:35:29 > 0:35:36When we receive a call like that, it's so far away from what you'd class as a normal act,
0:35:36 > 0:35:39someone running across a motorway or running up a hard shoulder.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43Coming into the area where he's been reported walking on the motorway.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Obviously Dale's slowing down now
0:35:45 > 0:35:48just in case he is in the middle of the carriageway or there has been a collision.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53'On average, 35 people are killed or seriously injured
0:35:53 > 0:35:55'on the hard shoulder each year.'
0:35:57 > 0:36:01Ey up. There he is. He's running!
0:36:01 > 0:36:04My first thoughts are, what is he running from?
0:36:04 > 0:36:11I'm expecting him to say he's running away from some disaster in his life.
0:36:11 > 0:36:15'So the man's first question isn't quite what they're expecting.'
0:36:16 > 0:36:18How do.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22How far can who go?
0:36:24 > 0:36:27Where do you live? I'm in Leeds, but I'm walking as far as I can.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30Why are you walking as far as you can? It's part of the group.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34What group? The rag. What rag? They are all in group A.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37No, it's as far as... You've had a few beers tonight, haven't you?
0:36:37 > 0:36:43Huh? You've had a few beers tonight. As far as I can to, like, Calais and wherever I can go.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45I certainly never saw it coming.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48I never expected him to say he was trying to run to France.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51You'll not get very far on the motorway at this time of night.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54You're likely to get knocked over. What's your name?
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Cal. You just sit in our car with us, Cal.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59Is it university mates you're out with?
0:36:59 > 0:37:02Group A, like, as far as you can.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06It would appear that
0:37:06 > 0:37:10the idiot of the night award goes to this chap.
0:37:10 > 0:37:14Him and his university friends seem to have had a few too many to drink
0:37:14 > 0:37:17and decided to see who can get the furthest away.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20I think this guy was aiming to get to Calais.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23Which is, er...
0:37:23 > 0:37:27It's only about a 260-mile drive and a 22-mile swim from where we are,
0:37:27 > 0:37:31so he maybe had a chance if we weren't so quick getting here,
0:37:31 > 0:37:36but we'll see what he's going to say and that will determine how we're going to deal with him, really.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39But one thing's for sure, he's not staying here.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43You are having a laugh, aren't you?
0:37:43 > 0:37:45No, honestly, I'm... Yeah?
0:37:45 > 0:37:47HE LAUGHS
0:37:48 > 0:37:50You're being serious, aren't you?
0:37:50 > 0:37:52No, it's the group that end up as far as they can.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58There's people further down than me, so... How are you spelling Cal, with a C or a K?
0:37:58 > 0:38:01James Bailey, then. Eh? James Bailey.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04Every time we asked him, he gave a different name.
0:38:04 > 0:38:10We'll start again. What is your name? My name is James, like Cal. James Bailey in Leeds.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14At that point you're thinking, "Is he just trying to avoid getting into trouble?"
0:38:14 > 0:38:18Right, so your official name is Callum, but you're called, you use James, do you?
0:38:18 > 0:38:21They call me Cal. Oh, right. No, go James.
0:38:23 > 0:38:28Like, James Bailey. I'm not familiar with the student area of Leeds.
0:38:28 > 0:38:31And it transpires that's the name of an accommodation building.
0:38:31 > 0:38:35What year of university are you in? First year.
0:38:35 > 0:38:40Is it fair to assume that when you've not got however many pints of alcohol in your belly,
0:38:40 > 0:38:44you're an intelligent person? Yeah, I'll go home with whatever you've got.
0:38:44 > 0:38:48Sorry? I'll go home with... Cos it's meant to be the first year.
0:38:48 > 0:38:54OK, I appreciate high jinx at university and such, and you're just wanting to have a good time.
0:38:54 > 0:38:58No, I have to go home now. No, now you're going to listen for a minute,
0:38:58 > 0:39:01because you're running down a motorway flagging your arms.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04Members of the public are ringing us
0:39:04 > 0:39:08because they're concerned about you for several reasons, all right?
0:39:08 > 0:39:12We don't know whether you're going to try and do something to yourself up here.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15We don't know if you're running away from something, because to me,
0:39:15 > 0:39:19it takes something pretty extreme to get me walking, jogging, running,
0:39:19 > 0:39:22anywhere near a hard shoulder when it's not related to my work.
0:39:22 > 0:39:26Yeah, that's fair enough. Because one of them hits you at 50 miles an hour...
0:39:26 > 0:39:30You're BLEEP. Yeah, you're not waking up in the morning. OK?
0:39:30 > 0:39:32His inhibitions were totally out of the window,
0:39:32 > 0:39:36he did not know the gravity of the situation he was facing.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39He had no idea of the possible consequence.
0:39:39 > 0:39:44'It's not just the cops who are concerned about his welfare.' PHONE RINGS
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Is that going to be one of your friends worried about you?
0:39:47 > 0:39:51No, she's gone, kind of, near Dover so...
0:39:51 > 0:39:55She's near Dover? Yeah. How drunk are you?
0:39:55 > 0:39:57I'm not as bad as... Do you mind if I answer that?
0:39:57 > 0:40:02Yeah, yeah. Is that somebody else who's taking part in this game? Yeah. What's their name? Anna.
0:40:04 > 0:40:05Hello?
0:40:08 > 0:40:13At the minute, your friend's sat in the back of a police car on the motorway on the M621.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19Yeah, that's probably a good way to sum it up.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25Maybe a clear mind at the other end of the phone.
0:40:25 > 0:40:29Maybe somebody could fill in the gaps for us, tell us what's going on.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32Did you get any sense out of her? Yeah.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35All right. She says there's no game taking place tonight.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38You've been in Leeds city centre. Is that right?
0:40:38 > 0:40:42No, it's a game, but... What have you been taking?
0:40:42 > 0:40:46Literally, just like vodka and coke.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49Coca-Cola? Coca-Cola, yeah.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52Have you not take anything else? Looking at your eyes,
0:40:52 > 0:40:56they are the most dilated I've ever seen.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58I've never took anything other than Coca-Cola.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02Could somebody have put something in your drink? Not from what I'm aware.
0:41:02 > 0:41:04I took the same amount as the girls took.
0:41:04 > 0:41:08Well, I beg to differ, cos she sounds quite coherent and you're not.
0:41:08 > 0:41:13'If Callum's drinks were spiked, then he may need urgent medical attention.'
0:41:13 > 0:41:17It was just a moment when maybe the penny dropped
0:41:17 > 0:41:21and this lad's not the usual drunk
0:41:21 > 0:41:25and we maybe need to do that... take that extra step
0:41:25 > 0:41:28to make sure he's going to be OK at the end of the day.
0:41:28 > 0:41:34Callum. Yeah? What I'm going to do is I'm going to take you down to the LGI. All right?
0:41:34 > 0:41:38Because I think you should be getting checked out because of your level of intoxication.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41I'd like to think if it was a member of my family,
0:41:41 > 0:41:44or my children, and the police had dealt with them,
0:41:44 > 0:41:46that they did deal with them fairly.
0:41:46 > 0:41:50If that means forcing them to go to the hospital or even arresting them,
0:41:50 > 0:41:57I'd rather that than potentially have them injured or come to some harm.
0:41:57 > 0:42:02'Callum may have been saved from a nasty brush with the motorway traffic.
0:42:03 > 0:42:08'But 25 miles away, there has been a serious accident.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11'PCs Lindsey Pickles and Andy Barron
0:42:11 > 0:42:14'have just received a call to assist with a crash on the A58.'
0:42:14 > 0:42:17POLICE RADIO CHATTER
0:42:18 > 0:42:22'On their way to the scene, Lindsey's getting an update.'
0:42:22 > 0:42:244-1, can you just repeat your last, please?
0:42:32 > 0:42:351-20, received, we are en route now.
0:42:35 > 0:42:40'It's another accident involving cars and horses loose on the road.
0:42:40 > 0:42:43'This time it's cost a human life.'
0:42:48 > 0:42:52"I'm believing so. I'll get back to you very shortly, but I'm believing so."
0:42:54 > 0:42:59It sounds like there've been some horses in the carriageway.
0:42:59 > 0:43:04It's quite a major route, Rochdale Road, isn't it? It's a fast road. Yeah.
0:43:04 > 0:43:09So if he's just been faced with the two horses in the road,
0:43:09 > 0:43:13the likelihood is he's had no... no way to avoid them.
0:43:13 > 0:43:18It's a fast road over the top, so it's unlit and it's a national speed limit,
0:43:18 > 0:43:21so it's quite likely that this car involved
0:43:21 > 0:43:23will have been travelling at speed.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25Clear left.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31How are we doing ID-wise, Leslie?
0:43:40 > 0:43:43'Officers will soon be on their way to inform the deceased man's family.'
0:43:43 > 0:43:46Are there other casualties in the other vehicle?
0:43:46 > 0:43:48'Lindsey also works as a family liaison officer,
0:43:48 > 0:43:51'so understands what a tough call that can be.'
0:43:51 > 0:43:56You've got to hope that you say the right things. You know what you've got to say.
0:43:56 > 0:44:00And it's the most tragic news that you're ever going to tell anybody.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04You can't imagine, really, what it's like for somebody to tell you
0:44:04 > 0:44:08that you've lost your son, your daughter.
0:44:08 > 0:44:11Erm, you can never imagine it.
0:44:17 > 0:44:22We knew how serious the incident was whilst we were en route.
0:44:22 > 0:44:27But the actual gravity and what we were met by,
0:44:27 > 0:44:31it's hard to... it's hard to describe, to be honest.
0:44:35 > 0:44:39Literally, as we get to the scene,
0:44:39 > 0:44:42we're more or less upon the horses that are in the road.
0:44:42 > 0:44:45It was... It was horrific.
0:44:48 > 0:44:53'Lindsey and Andy are briefed by the first officers who arrived on the scene.'
0:44:53 > 0:44:55Three vehicles involved.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59I very briefly spoke to the Corsa driver,
0:44:59 > 0:45:01he's been coming down from Littleborough this way.
0:45:01 > 0:45:05He's seen the horses just appear out of nowhere, cos it's black and it's dark.
0:45:05 > 0:45:11He's slammed on. The Saab has been travelling up here, he's not seen them and gone into both of them.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14Right. I think he's hit the first one. So is it the Corsa he's clipped
0:45:14 > 0:45:18post-collision with the horses? Or is there another vehicle?
0:45:18 > 0:45:22No. Horses and then the Corsa. And then there's another vehicle, as well? Yes.
0:45:22 > 0:45:25Is that travelling behind the Corsa? I presume so. Right.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28It's imperative for us as investigators
0:45:28 > 0:45:30to find out exactly what happened
0:45:30 > 0:45:33to put things in place to prevent it happening again.
0:45:35 > 0:45:38We're waiting for Collision Investigation then SOCO.
0:45:38 > 0:45:43And obviously getting patrol officers about the identity of the horses, as well. Yeah.
0:45:43 > 0:45:45'Before the investigation team arrive,
0:45:45 > 0:45:49'the cops try to establish where the horses came from.'
0:45:49 > 0:45:53I wonder if they own horses, cos that looks like it's fenced in, doesn't it?
0:45:53 > 0:45:56Shall we go have a look?
0:45:56 > 0:45:59Obviously the investigation starts at the collision scene,
0:45:59 > 0:46:04and as much information and evidence that we can get from that scene
0:46:04 > 0:46:07to build a picture as to what's gone on is absolutely crucial.
0:46:07 > 0:46:11I'm just looking to see if that's an entrance to that farm but it's not.
0:46:13 > 0:46:17It was difficult to assess that scene because it was so very dark.
0:46:17 > 0:46:22There was no moon. It was overcast. So there was no artificial light, there was no street lighting.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25You had to sort of have a look at where the horses were
0:46:25 > 0:46:28and then walk down the road and see where the cars were.
0:46:28 > 0:46:34It hampered the investigation initially because you couldn't see everything all at the same time.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37And it's much, much easier if you can see the entire scene.
0:46:37 > 0:46:41'Six people are killed on Britain's roads every day,
0:46:41 > 0:46:46'and in England and Wales, a coroner's inquest is always held after a fatal accident.'
0:46:46 > 0:46:49Somebody's lost a life here so we need to establish what's happened
0:46:49 > 0:46:52in as much detail as we can.
0:46:52 > 0:46:54More so for the family.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00Attending something like that, where somebody's lost their life,
0:47:00 > 0:47:03it is emotionally very, very draining.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07You start thinking about how you might feel if you'd lost a loved one.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11'The Specialist Collision Investigation team are on their way.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14'Until they've examined the scene, the road will remain closed.'
0:47:14 > 0:47:18Morning. Hi, there. You're going to have to turn around, I'm afraid.
0:47:18 > 0:47:22I take it you've come from one of the houses up this road? We shut it further down.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25They have the ability to completely reconstruct that collision,
0:47:25 > 0:47:29and quite often do it very, very accurately.
0:47:29 > 0:47:34And only when we do that can we answer most of those questions for the families left behind.
0:47:37 > 0:47:41'While Andy and Lindsey wait for the collision investigators to arrive...
0:47:43 > 0:47:46'..over in Leeds General Infirmary,
0:47:46 > 0:47:49'the student found running along the motorway by PCs Dale Anderson and Mick McQuade
0:47:49 > 0:47:52'is being checked by medical staff.'
0:47:52 > 0:47:56Sorry about this. We wouldn't ordinarily have brought him in
0:47:56 > 0:48:00but one minute he's talking something which is reasonably sensible,
0:48:00 > 0:48:03the next second he's saying he's trying to swim to Calais.
0:48:03 > 0:48:05He's not sure if his drink's being spiked,
0:48:05 > 0:48:12so we thought we'd better get him checked over rather than dumping him at his digs and leaving him be.
0:48:12 > 0:48:15I need to know if you have taken any drugs this evening.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19I've taken... No. Apart from, like, what I drank.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22Could your friends have given you anything
0:48:22 > 0:48:25you've not been aware of? Not that I know of.
0:48:25 > 0:48:28He could've had something accidentally, somebody could've slipped it into the drink.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31It's quite easy to just slip an E tablet in
0:48:31 > 0:48:33or something else that dissolves and there's no trace of it.
0:48:33 > 0:48:38They don't taste it, or they can't see it, they easily can drink it and it's gone.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42'If something has been slipped into his drink,
0:48:42 > 0:48:44'then recovering in A&E is his best option,
0:48:44 > 0:48:46'as opposed to a day trip to Calais.'
0:48:47 > 0:48:51It wasn't the best route to take
0:48:51 > 0:48:54because of what happened...
0:48:54 > 0:48:58But if what had happened hadn't happened, I could have got further.
0:48:58 > 0:49:03So it's just complete, pure luck, what happened.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06I thought we'd got an understanding and an agreement
0:49:06 > 0:49:10and we're intending to leave him at the hospital to be checked over.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16Unfortunately, he had other ideas.
0:49:16 > 0:49:18No, come here.
0:49:18 > 0:49:23I thought we had an agreement. You're not going home.
0:49:23 > 0:49:27No matter how hard we were trying, we cannot get this lad at this point in time
0:49:27 > 0:49:30to see what is obviously common sense.
0:49:30 > 0:49:33You can't make me go anywhere you want.
0:49:33 > 0:49:37I'm happy to go home now. You seem to be misunderstanding the situation, all right?
0:49:37 > 0:49:41We're not satisfied that you're of a sound mind to make these decisions.
0:49:41 > 0:49:46Because we're not going to run the risk of you walking to the next dual carriageway or motorway,
0:49:46 > 0:49:49all right, and doing exactly the same again and getting run over and killed.
0:49:49 > 0:49:54We'd already gone to the extreme of getting him to the hospital,
0:49:54 > 0:49:59just to let him walk away, how do we know we won't find him back on the motorway in 15 minutes' time?
0:49:59 > 0:50:03How do we know we're not going to find him underneath a bus in Leeds city centre?
0:50:03 > 0:50:07It's a free choice. No, it isn't, because you can't look after yourself. Can't I just walk home?
0:50:07 > 0:50:11We're not sure that you can. You're not fit to look after yourself.
0:50:15 > 0:50:17Right, go and sit yourself down.
0:50:17 > 0:50:23'It's taken all of Dale's powers of persuasion to get him back inside.'
0:50:25 > 0:50:27You get quite a lot of people wandering on the network.
0:50:27 > 0:50:30It's usually from the neighbouring estates,
0:50:30 > 0:50:33people up at this time of day wandering round.
0:50:33 > 0:50:38MAN LAUGHS Is he coming out again? Oh!
0:50:38 > 0:50:40'He's so determined that he's going to go home,'
0:50:40 > 0:50:44he's never looked in our direction, he's just kept his focus in front.
0:50:44 > 0:50:49As if by doing that, we're not going to see him and deal with him.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51Get back in!
0:50:51 > 0:50:54No, don't... I want you to spend an hour with these people.
0:50:54 > 0:50:58Let them assess you again in an hour and if they're happy to release you, they'll tell you to go home.
0:50:58 > 0:51:03You aren't walking home in this state. So go back in, speak to the nurses, give them an hour,
0:51:03 > 0:51:07come round, sober up... Speak to the nurse with me. Right. Come on. I'll take you. Come on.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11I just want to... No.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14If we let you go home and something happens to you, I've got to tell your parents
0:51:14 > 0:51:18why I let you go home on your own and come to harm.
0:51:19 > 0:51:23We've all been there. We've all been teenagers into our 20s,
0:51:23 > 0:51:27been given a bit of freedom and got ourselves into a bit of a state.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29So I've got some sympathy with him.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32He'd just had too much to drink.
0:51:33 > 0:51:37'Eventually, the nurses agree that Callum is well enough to leave.
0:51:37 > 0:51:40'And Dale and Mick are driving him home
0:51:40 > 0:51:43'to be certain he doesn't find himself back on the motorway.'
0:51:46 > 0:51:50I didn't... meant to end like this.
0:51:50 > 0:51:52No, you wanted to get to Dover.
0:51:53 > 0:51:58I've not come across a student who's tried to leg it to France before.
0:51:58 > 0:52:02Will I come across one again? Hopefully not.
0:52:02 > 0:52:05All right. Cheers. Thank you very much. See you. Next time,
0:52:05 > 0:52:08keep it a bit more realistic and maybe aim for...
0:52:08 > 0:52:11to actually get home rather than another country.
0:52:11 > 0:52:15OK. See you later. You're going to have a monster of a hangover in the morning.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17See you.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23That's the future of our country.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28THEY LAUGH
0:52:30 > 0:52:33Hopefully he'll have learnt from what's happened,
0:52:33 > 0:52:36and if he never faces a situation like that again,
0:52:36 > 0:52:38well, surely it's an hour or two of our time that's been well spent.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49'On the A58, west of Halifax,
0:52:49 > 0:52:52'PC Andy Barron has made some progress
0:52:52 > 0:52:56'in working out what happened to cause the fatal accident.'
0:52:57 > 0:53:00From early indications of the witness accounts,
0:53:00 > 0:53:03it would appear the driver of the Corsa had slowed down for the horses in the road.
0:53:03 > 0:53:07However, unfortunately, it would appear that the driver of the Saab
0:53:07 > 0:53:11hadn't seen the horses and went on to collide with them.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13An adult horse
0:53:13 > 0:53:16can weigh as much as a small car.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20So the impact of a horse on a vehicle,
0:53:20 > 0:53:24depending on where it actually hits, is going to be massive.
0:53:28 > 0:53:32There was an extreme amount of damage. The roof was pushed down.
0:53:32 > 0:53:36Erm, yeah, and the driver wouldn't have had much of a chance.
0:53:37 > 0:53:40'The owner of the horses has been told of the accident.
0:53:40 > 0:53:44'But the cops now need to find out why they were on the road in the middle of the night.'
0:53:45 > 0:53:48The owners of the horses are down there. Right.
0:53:48 > 0:53:51Are the officers getting an account? I don't know.
0:53:51 > 0:53:55Cos we could do with CIU at some point with SOCO,
0:53:55 > 0:53:58or just SOCO, going with the owners of the horse
0:53:58 > 0:54:03and photographing where they were tethered and where they think they've escaped from.
0:54:03 > 0:54:06Hello, mate, it's Andy Barron from the traffic department.
0:54:06 > 0:54:10I understand you're with the owner of these two horses, is that right?
0:54:11 > 0:54:15There is a possibility that the fencing had been tampered with.
0:54:15 > 0:54:18And we may be looking at criminal damage.
0:54:18 > 0:54:22There is a theory that the horses could've jumped the fence.
0:54:24 > 0:54:28But unfortunately, we've got no witnesses or credible evidence at this time
0:54:28 > 0:54:31that will say for certain which one of those theories it is.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38'The Collision Investigation team have arrived and are beginning to inspect the scene.'
0:54:39 > 0:54:43He's actually been pushed back at some point.
0:54:43 > 0:54:48They're trained to basically reconstruct the collision
0:54:48 > 0:54:51as it's happened, or from their calculations,
0:54:51 > 0:54:53how they believe that collision's happened
0:54:53 > 0:54:58and why that person's died as a result of that collision.
0:54:58 > 0:55:03Look at that there. We've got a lot of damage round here. A lot of stuff's been taken out.
0:55:04 > 0:55:08'The driver of the third car, a Fiesta, managed to avoid the other cars
0:55:08 > 0:55:11'but struck the body of one of the horses.
0:55:11 > 0:55:15'While the collision investigators examine the vehicles,
0:55:15 > 0:55:20'Lindsey and Andy are at the hospital to get a statement from the injured driver of the Fiesta.'
0:55:20 > 0:55:25Part of the investigation, and more importantly our role, is to speak to people.
0:55:25 > 0:55:28Quite often they will forget things very, very quickly,
0:55:28 > 0:55:30because it's been a traumatic experience for them
0:55:30 > 0:55:34and they will push it out of their memory very quickly.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39'He's injured, but it could've been much worse.'
0:55:39 > 0:55:42You've had a lucky escape, by the sounds of it, haven't you?
0:55:42 > 0:55:45Cos if you'd been a few seconds further forward,
0:55:45 > 0:55:48it could've been you hitting this horse, couldn't it?
0:55:48 > 0:55:51When I got into the car this morning, for the first time ever, it didn't start.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54So I spent five minutes trying to get my car going.
0:55:54 > 0:55:58Er, otherwise I would've been five minutes further up the road,
0:55:58 > 0:56:02and I could've easily been that car that had the fatality in it. It was that close.
0:56:02 > 0:56:08I spotted two cars obviously together on the right-hand side of the carriageway
0:56:08 > 0:56:12and hazard lights on. So I thought there'd been an accident,
0:56:12 > 0:56:18so I slowed down, and thought, "I'll go and see," cos I'm first-aid trained.
0:56:18 > 0:56:22And I smashed into a dead horse on my side of the carriageway.
0:56:22 > 0:56:24I went right over the top of that.
0:56:24 > 0:56:30Erm, came down, my car veered over to the right and I managed to stop it,
0:56:30 > 0:56:33so I got out and there was another guy coming towards me
0:56:33 > 0:56:37and it was very apparent that the other guy in the car was dead.
0:56:37 > 0:56:41I managed to feel that there was no pulse, I managed to see that there was no breathing,
0:56:41 > 0:56:45but I couldn't get in to do any emergency resuscitation at all.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49It was obvious that that was going to be a waste of time, anyway.
0:56:50 > 0:56:54A lot of drivers will panic and just freeze and sit in the car
0:56:54 > 0:56:56and wait for emergency services to arrive.
0:56:56 > 0:57:00But this particular person, he had the sense, he got out
0:57:00 > 0:57:04and he tried to do everything he possibly could
0:57:04 > 0:57:06to make that situation better.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09And it was a very, very desperate situation.
0:57:13 > 0:57:18I don't think we'll ever get to the bottom of why those horses were in the middle of the road.
0:57:19 > 0:57:24There are many reasons why these animals might get onto the road, and they quite often do,
0:57:24 > 0:57:26and quite often it's through no fault of the owners,
0:57:26 > 0:57:28and quite often it's through no fault of the drivers.
0:57:30 > 0:57:32It could be one of those few collisions where
0:57:32 > 0:57:37it's just an unfortunate accident, and it's happened with no-one entirely to blame.
0:57:40 > 0:57:46'A coroner's inquiry into the accident concluded the driver's death was accidental.
0:57:47 > 0:57:51'Just how the horses escaped from the field onto the road remains a mystery.
0:57:53 > 0:57:56'The driver of the black Astra that hit the side of an HGV
0:57:56 > 0:57:59'pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention.
0:58:01 > 0:58:04'He was fined £110 and given nine penalty points.
0:58:04 > 0:58:08'No further action was taken against any of the other drivers.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12'And the student who claimed his drinks were spiked
0:58:12 > 0:58:17'after he was found walking along the hard shoulder by PCs Dale Anderson and Mick McQuade
0:58:17 > 0:58:19'has made a full recovery.'
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