Highway Response Team Attend Motorway Crash | The Motorway: Life In The Fast Lane | Real Responders
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Motorways are the transport arteries on which Britain depends. Through bad weather, accidents and repairs, it’s a constant battle to keep them moving. This series reveals the secret life of one of the UK’s busiest - the M6
From the travellers who rely on it to the teams that work along it, the series features surprising stories and characters normally hidden from view. The repairmen who risk their lives as huge, fast and unpredictable vehicles thunder past, the irate local residents whose peace is disturbed by another set of night works and the police who mop up when things go wrong.
The Motorway: Life In The Fast Lane provides a unique insight into the vast and fascinating life of UK's busiest M6.
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Did that guy actually say “I’ve never had a speeding ticket” and then follow it up with “I never go over 100” - that’s 30mph over the speed limit so if you’ve never had a ticket then you absolutely should have done.
Why was the lady passenger not wearing her seal belt properly too drivers in glass houses and all that .
I think that guy is supposed to be a parody of the "travelling salesman" driving stereotype. I think the other family is playing the "oblivious family" stereotype... But it's really not clear as its just mixed in with the serious bits...
Driver: *not amused*
Traffic Control Lady: "ITS HUMAN SEWAGE XD"
It's a bit shit innit
She says "sewerage" .....
@@monkey_spanner8433 ; No the driver said it was fully loaded see: ua-cam.com/video/CuKke5Ha3a4/v-deo.html
DiscordedBraeburn they have to find something to laugh about
She was annoying.
Whenever I see a car on hard shoulder with hazards on, I always leave an empty lane between me and the car.. Better be safe for both of us, than sorry later.
Same here, and then some bloody idiot (probably brain dead) overtakes in that empty lane!
@@Xanthopteryx surely undertakes?
@@morganjoyce8712 Pretty much the same in short-hand; They've gone past you in another lane, so it's commonly just called overtaking, though yes, technically undertaking. :)
@@AlexGreenwoodUkulele when somebody goes past you in the right hand lane that is overtaking, when somebody goes past you in the left land (which is illegal, unless the car in the right lane is going slower than usual) it's called undertaking.
@@morganjoyce8712 Yes, That's basically what I just said. Read my comment again. I know exactly what both terms mean, and I was explaining why he merely called it overtaking.
In short conversation, it's simply easier to call both of them 'overtaking' because the long and short of it is, they've gone past someone else. In technicality, though, that is undertaking.
These people are doing a GREAT job!! I think every person in the UK should watch this video to see what they are accomplishing to keep everything moving and the roads in good shape, and then at least try to be patient, well mannered drivers. Thank you for sharing this video!
Wow, many thanks to the people who do these jobs. You`re so underappreciated.
Exactly what I was thinking too Jeff Gogo.
they're part of the real life heros for keeping the world running as smoothly as possible
FACTS! 👍
Total respect for these highway/motorway workers!! They work in some of the most hazardous conditions and some people think nothing of them! Total respect right here!!!
I can’t believe those lorries pretty much smashing into the cones. They will have completely ignored the X on the lane guidance telling them the lane is closed and then be completely oblivious to what is ahead of them in not seeing the cones until they almost hit them. Every single one of them should have been sent a ticket or be arrested for dangerous driving. No Lorry driver should be on the road like that, as they’re driving a huge thing that could wipe out families.
Retired after 18 years as a Traffic Officer now, still think of that day regularly, one of several fatals I attended, to all you T.O's still in the job, stay safe Col
Congratulations on your retirement and thank you for your service. I'm truly sorry you had to attend to several fatalities. 😢 I hope you had the emotional and mental support you needed after. I can imagine they all stay with you, some more than others. And I second your wish to all the ones still on the job to stay safe. 🙏
“What’s that coming over the hill”
“It’s a rolling block”😭
I can not find it where someone says that. Where is it?
@@fate6514 15:51 :)
I was dying!
@@NHZProductionss I appreciate people like you! Thank you for the timestamp! You're one of the greats! 👍🤗
That was really funny.😂 It's always a better day at work when you can laugh and have fun.
11:45 ~ you can just tell by that reaction that they speed regularly they just don't want to show it on TV.
“It’s their souls I’m after”
Lmao in South Africa it takes them 2 years to fix a pothole and when they do 3 months later it occurs again lol
Same for the States. On residential streets it can take five years.
2 years that fast where u living in SA?
That arse in the Porsche made my blood boil.
Amongst other examples of poor driving...
Brilliant series though.
I thought that never more than a 100mph, what I understand about the law is it's 10%+2mph allowance over the speed limit, that's well in excess of that.
@@nigelbutterfield8533 it's because over 100 you're basically guaranteed to lose your licence (automatic summons in front of a judge)... lower than that its 3 points and a £100 fine (fixed penalty)
@@ddon1797 The police can still refer to court. Don't my quote still stands, the police won't usually pull unless over the 10%+2, even successfully argued a 37 in a thirty, just dropped from a 40mph on a wide dual carriageway entering Doncaster and I was trying to find somewhere, so the 30mph hadn't fully registered and whilst I was slowing I tripped a camera at 37, said as much in response to the letter, never heard anything else about it.
How bout the woman that blew a tire..!! She was in full blown panic, in turn traumatized her daughter and then... stops in her bloody lane rather than stay calm, reduce speed turn on 4 ways and pull off. That poor driving skill level is the reason these accidents happen PERIOD. cheers though.
@@barryh2084 i think she was forgetting something u can still drive on a flat tire just get the car somewhere safe stopping in a live lane like she did not a good thing to do
The US could take a few lessons from the Brits on motorway maintenance! The roads going into Nashville are absolutely horrendous! I love the fact that Brits have made such great use of the CCTV cameras. Come on US get your act together!
I-40's a nightmare in AR as well and it's under constant construction.
Yes...love the cameras, oh and the Russians.....seems like every single car has dash cam. That should be mandatory in US autos. Think how much time it would save accident reports.
We have a small network but you guys have longer motorways. These are UK core motorways, the busy parts. Too expensive otherwise.
Come to Canada and you would die to have the Nashville roads no joke
Wait till you see our local roads though, they're all a mess
The accident towards the end involving a human. The police handled it amazingly saying it takes as long as it takes as there is a family that needs to know and so on but the highways agency wanted the M6 opened straight away as there was tail backs WTF have heart that's someone's son, brother, husband, father and your worried about people being late going on a day out
@Lady Jupiter I saw an rtc where I was first on the scene back in the mid 80's opposite my security post, the passenger had a gash from his knee to historic groin that had sliced through his thigh to his none, the force of the impact rapped the radiator round then engine and tilted a garage forecourt sign post overview but some 20 degrees, drunk driver I am guessing done a runner and left their passenger, fortunately there was a fire station right next door to the site I was patrolling otherwise I would have needed to go to the nearest phone box, even then it took some time to get their attention but they will have been better equipped than me to deal with it, I did chase it up the following day and he survived, I don't know what happened to the driver.
Remembering for a long time, I would say they will never forget it I never have, and as the incident was 33-34 years ago I 56 in two months.
Mitch might be going fast at 11:45 but that smile is a winner, lucky lady.
People should come and drive in Australia. When they come back to the UK, they'll realise how good and polite British drivers are.
tell me about it. I qualified to drive in the UK but have lived in the US for many years. The only place in the US I've been that's anywhere remotely close to British driving standards is Minnesota and they're still a little bit too fast and apt to drive distracted (e.g. phones and whatnot).
very cool, uploading the whole episodes is greatly appreciated
NIK4014 aka monti full episodes of anything is appreciated
Compassion deficit perhaps? What the hell has happened to people? Telling a suicidal person to jump and get on with it... sad state of affairs.
Please keep uploading this series, it's really good and interesting!
It looks to me like the hgv drivers are complacent when driving . The two at the beginning who nearly took out the broken down truck and staff in the other vehicle must of been asleep 😮!!!!!
Good programmes and quality uploads, well appreciated. Motorway bridge jumpers solution - mobile air bag and a push, job jobbed and money saved and long closures avoided, simple!
🙏
How about some fencing along the overpass with a curve inward at the top.
Who else is not from Britain and watching this? Greetings from Australia
Michigan, USA
Dallas TX. Love so many things UK but not their traffic issues. BTW, we have one tornado storm chaser who is here from your country that I watch all the time on UA-cam, and of course, the guy from “Big jet TV.” Love your accents where all your words end with a lilt up sound. Lol. Wouldn’t want to live there, tho, with the many dangerous snakes you all have. We have bad snakes too but ours take a couple of days to kill you if they are going to. Your snakes do it in seconds. I’d just be terrified all the time. Just really looked at your name. Lol. You don’t sound AUSTRALIAN. You sound SCOTTISH.....
@@curlyanneb1973 a lot of Aussie have English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh names (mine is welsh) it's a part of our history. Oh and ya don't see snakes everyday or everywhere lol but our spiders are just as bad!
Aiden McDonald mountains of new york
USA North Carolina
We had a 15 year old kill herself jumping from the dual carriageway near me a couple of years ago. They found that she had been hit by 5 cars before she was found and not one of them stopped after hitting a child. I can’t believe how the world has become with lacking compassion for others nowadays :-(
Meanwhile it takes a decade just to consider filling up a pothole in my country
All those who ignored the big red "X" on the gantry should receive 6 points and £1000 fine. These is NO excuse for their idiocy.
Why would you sit in the highways car in lane one when you know there’s a chance of a near miss😂 we are always told to get out and stand behind the barrier even if our cars on the hard shoulder
If you rewatch it, you will find the car was on Lane 1 to place the cones out. It then moved to the front of the wagon.
Christopher Mills a lorry ran over the cones and nearly took them out while they where sat in the vehicle while they where still In lane one
I spent 3 years in Europe and I must say one thing I was impressed with was the state of the roads. Potholes repaired quickly, etc. Here in the US where I live we had a snow storm, which melted into the roads, then froze again, causing A LOT of huge potholes on regular and freeway roads. Numerous cars received flat tires or other damage, many wrecks caused by them. Yet it still took months and months to get them fixed, and even then it was a poor job that doesn't last long.. Now they are experimenting with a road surface that absorbs water and funnels it off to the side.
Trust me it’s still like that in alot of Europe, Ireland is horrible for it
Just a really casual have ya ever played football on the busiest road in Britain I cos I have
Was it closed?
@@arturturkevych3816 whats the fun in a closed road :)
@@arturturkevych3816 no it was open and the cars were the players, they just had a large inflatable football.
they must have got some sort of penalty for that?
11:13 what a hypocrite 🤣
"I never go over 100"
" *ThAtS tOo FaSt* "
Kilometers of course. Not miles.
The two parents in the car have to be the most annoying humans ever
Yeah... plastic Fisher price people
I don't understand why you made such an annoying comment, which is totally irrelevant, to the point of the programme, what I found annoying as to the inclusion of any in vehicle recording who's comments weren't really relevant to the programme.
They look like people with kids to me. They are all annoying. These two make my skin crawl though.
Oh now you've done it. You've pissed off Nigel...
Also, literally a good 75% of people in big passenger cars are like that. They just don't give a fuck anymore. But, I digress...
Yes
Such a difficult job, and I don't think you can pay anyone enough money to do it. Especially turning up to fatals. Had one experience with Highways Traffic Officers who attended a near-fatal I witnessed and they were such wonderful people, and I really appreciate the staff that controlled the lanes so I could get back on the motorway without incident. People always think they're annoying and causing delays, but jesus I couldn't hack the jobs!
I reported a large pothole on lane 1 of the M1 nearly three months ago, I noticed a number of other motorists had reported it too. Two weeks ago I noticed it still hadn't been repaired!
standards have fallen since a lot of these cop shows on UA-cam were filmed.
21:00 for anyone else who just wanted to watch the title scene.
Well done, good soundtrack, great production. Fun to watch, very enjoyable.
Whole engine came out and totalled the barrier. Bloody hell.
Just a thought, but if there's a potential 'jumper', wouldn't it be a good idea to stop an HGV or 2, with tarpaulin covers, under him/her whilst sending a team up onto the bridge?
Perhaps higher unclimbable barriers with blocked of ends on each bridge.
Can anyone else hear that super high frequency at certain points in the video?
That girl was unbelievably lucky to only have a mouth injury from that.
HGV's not being driven to full attention to the road conditions, can't think of anything more dangerous short of human conflict
The lot hitting cones at begining gave me mad anxiety !!
YOU ARE TOP GUYS!! OUR EVERYDAY HIDDEN HEROES
Dangerous work these people do. Would hate to be that vulnerable around speeding traffic.
High perspex barriers on overpasses would cut down on suicides there.
The HGV driver said it was fully loaded so it was 'full of s***'.
If I were thinking of jumping and they sent a god botherer to "help" me I'd jump for certain.
It needs to be a trained professional, not am opportunistic vulture!
A very dangerous job. Maybe if there were more road closures the roads wouldnt be use4s so much, some people might think its not worth headding out to the shops, which wouldnt be a bad thing
I feel so bad for the gentleman I mean, I know they have a job to do but that has got to be seriously intimidating with hundreds of people staring you down while you’re trying to work ❤😂
I’m thrilled to live in a place where there is almost no traffic and excellent roads on the highway 💜
I loved watching your videos all the time and at the same time I learnt a lot from you all. Keep posting please and take care you all xxxxxx
America should learn from this.
The boxing day accident :wouldn't the insurance company want pictures before cleaning the road and fixing barrier?
yeah they probably did that but didnt show within the programme!! dont really want to show us the proper boring stuff like taking insurance pics!!
20:30 - I work in a call centre - we prohibit the ‘q’ word as well 😂
Man the talk on jumpers has hit hard depression is awful
It really facinates me how incredibly amazing their job is fixing the potholes... South Africa they dont give a shit about these issues
It's so... maddening in one way! and I guess strange in another and helpful / beneficial in another to think all of these people are sitting up in a Control Tower or whatever you want to call it, somewhere out there, watching Cams on the roads, and they have the ability to possibly foresee an Accident just before it happens or when it's actually happening or can tell if it's about to happen! It's mad in a way to think there's an open-office load of people watching everything that happens on the roads on cams!
That was wheely nice for the owner to collect his property
Im tyred of these jokes
Wherever possible I go by minor roads, the picturesque route.
Overground underground wambling free
" . . . a leg with a foot attached . . . we're seeing more bits . . . you might want to think about stopping traffic." YEAH, I GUESS SO.
At 44.19 in this video one can see the man and his dog walking in the # 1 lane.....then Colin & Karen come along and find the dog down and a leg from the man.
20:29 She caused the accident, she said the Q word!!! And its the same in the ER, say that word and all hell breaks loose...
OMG the highway man said "Karen will be in pieces" what a bad pun omg!!!! @ 47:32 Then @ 48:09 the other guy says "there are good parts and bad parts" omg not again.
At 8 mins who is driving the vehicle? Both are sitting with their hands in their laps, is it a self driving vehicle or is the female not really in control?
20:21 the year and bro just wants Jeffrey to stop speaking lolziertsz
Good luck getting a pothole fixed anytime soon here in the US. Wish we did what the British do. We'd have fewer ticked off drivers perhaps.
Total numptys that don’t pay attention to traffic lane closures ..shows they are not paying the attention they should be on a motorway..that could be someone’s life..PAY ATTENTION ...
32:36 Where I live (United States: Ohio) thats not even a pothole, thats minor, our potholes are literal big holes in the ground. Type in google "Ohio Potholes" and look at the pictures that come up.
Lady Jupiter There is no such thing as bragging about who has worse roads xD. Every time I hit a big bump or crack in the road I get pissed.
That's not a pothole compared to 90% of the ones in the UK. On the motorway they take them a lot more seriously due to the higher speeds and higher likelihood of serious damage and resulting injuries.
On normal roads potholes can be way way more severe than this
I'm from the UK. In my area, we huge potholes, the roads are so poorly maintained.
LRODRG11 Same in Alaska, not to mention the buckling of the roads from permafrost and cracks from earthquakes.
You would think they would wait til night time to repair the road so not to stop traffic
They do.
That's horrendous. None of the work as an NHTO looks like fun and games, but for any person to physically witness body parts of a human on a road is mentally scarring. Nobody would expect to see that as part of their work.
I really sadly came across a jumper who’d passed in July. I was in the front in the right hand lane just after it had occurred. Luckily, there was a passing ambulance travelling in front of me who was able to control the scene quickly. So, so sad and very horrific for all - the road was shut 36h. I really thank all those who work on the roads and sadly witness these poor victims. RIP
“Yeah my car just started swerving I don’t know why”
Hahaha... so true. Daft drivers.
Initial goth *eurobeat intensifies*
Love this series
Thanks for putting up the whole show it's awesome most only do half ass shit and it sucks so thanks
55:12 well you are speeding and sat in the outer lane
I think today’s society is always in such a rush and needs to slow down!!!!!! I didn’t realize see this until 5 yrs ago when I became disabled. I noticed people risk there lives and others to get to there destination only a couple minutes earlier!!!!! For God’s sake people give yourself a few extra minutes so you don’t have to go 80 or 90 in a 70mph zone or 60-65 in a 55mph zone!!!! The more people that are in a hurry the greater chance of something bad happening!!!! It’s not an accident if you run someone off the road because you’re in a dang hurry. Enjoy your drive and ride and slow down!!!! Give yourself 5-15 minutes extra so you don’t have to act like a fool to get somewhere in time!!!! It’s not worth the risk!!!!!!
She finds it very hilarious...
Itz full of shit innit hahahaha :)
I thought the thumbnail said mictowave accident
Seriously appreciate the full episodes during quarantine, geez Australia police are 1000x better than US smhhh
Tis ironic that this is in England.
I actually shouldn’t say that I couldn’t even imagine the horrors of getting into an accident with a car full of children, but that means sewage is definitely up there
The ferarie dude made me mad the whole time
Thinks he owns the road
Pothole surveying. I'd love to do that locally.
I can think of little else less entertaining than watching other people driving.
The GPS voice sounds like the guy who narrates memes
Sewage laugh at 8:43 sounds a bit phoney, like sewage. Cheers!
The M25 is also solid every year; the vehicles don't move!
I really like this series thank you!!!!!
Least it saves real cops dealing with idiots who can’t drive properly,plus they get to drive a car with flashing lights,every childs dream 😎😃(not meant to be an insult by the way)
That pikey with the missing caravan wheel is a maniac
wow..I don't even know if there is highway surveillance like what I see here in the US !! I'm guessing not...I can readily see the advantage!
Much needed jobs but so dangerous 😳
Too many drivers are short sighted.
The job of the people who watch the motorway cameras and alert police etc , does anyone know what this job would be called?
Tori Simpson probably maintenance dispatcher
Spies! Jk
Highways Agency
thanks for posting.
That prayer was refreshing
The guy in the Porsche can't be real xD
I used to live in Manchester. I also lived and worked in Germany.When l used to visit my mother in Manchester,l dreaded the road journey....especially on the M1.l considered the drivers in the UK really bad.A total lack of safety and disrespectful of other people on the road.Thank god l no longer live there.
9:03 POV: No one other laughing
Did that man that they found dead on the roadway walk into traffic? How did he die? He didn’t jump off the bridge. So what happened?
That creepy vicar woman is the stuff of horror movies.
4:57. You may want to go fast. But keep to the speed limit!
Wow in the US our highways are not monitored with the exception of an occasional cop checking for speeding. Our roads are definitely not maintained anywhere close to how the Brits do it.
one thing about driving there is you were never very far from a phone even before mobile phones. They had emergency phones on the motorway from the start, spaced every mile, and unlike equivalent systems in the US they cover all areas, urban and rural, universally, and they've continued to be maintained even in today's mobile phone dominated era.
Great programme, keep safe
There's always potholes in the roads here here in Australia. It takes forever to fix them.
Rip to the person who died