feejer222
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It was a half hour program based on one road accident designed to shock...and it did.
We follow a police officer attending a motorway crash where it was proven later a truck driver was busy trying to work out his new mobile phone. He drove into the back of standing traffic at 60mph without braking. The phone was put in the cab by his employer and had not been explained to him.
The driver got 4 years, it didnt say whether the company were held responsible at all.
The car that he hit was a Peugeot hatch back. It was so crushed that only 2 feet of it was visible between his truck and the car in front. He admitted later that when he first looked to see what he had hit from the truck he thought he had hit the next car in the queue and didnt even know the Peugeot was there.
Inside it was a 23 year old woman, needless to say she didnt survive.
We then go in the car with the officer to the house where the girl lived to tell her parents. The camera kept rolling from inside the car to the point where he asked if they were her parents, then shut off.
When he came back to the car he was in a state himself and said that her teenage brother had become hysterical and almost violent towards him. Which sometimes happens when they deliver this sort of news apparantly.
We then travel back to the scene with him. The motorway is completely closed and a huge tailback has formed. We are traveling down the hard shoulder (emergency lane) and come across some dilbert who has decided to use it himself. He got he full roth of this coppers emotions and got booked. Further along the traffic is being shunted off at 10mph by police and our man spots a woman using her phone whilst driving, allbeit at 10mph, she gets it from him as well. To be honest he was at a stage where he should have gone home.
None of this was staged and was very harrowing. Certainly makes you think and has stuck in my mind.
We follow a police officer attending a motorway crash where it was proven later a truck driver was busy trying to work out his new mobile phone. He drove into the back of standing traffic at 60mph without braking. The phone was put in the cab by his employer and had not been explained to him.
The driver got 4 years, it didnt say whether the company were held responsible at all.
The car that he hit was a Peugeot hatch back. It was so crushed that only 2 feet of it was visible between his truck and the car in front. He admitted later that when he first looked to see what he had hit from the truck he thought he had hit the next car in the queue and didnt even know the Peugeot was there.
Inside it was a 23 year old woman, needless to say she didnt survive.
We then go in the car with the officer to the house where the girl lived to tell her parents. The camera kept rolling from inside the car to the point where he asked if they were her parents, then shut off.
When he came back to the car he was in a state himself and said that her teenage brother had become hysterical and almost violent towards him. Which sometimes happens when they deliver this sort of news apparantly.
We then travel back to the scene with him. The motorway is completely closed and a huge tailback has formed. We are traveling down the hard shoulder (emergency lane) and come across some dilbert who has decided to use it himself. He got he full roth of this coppers emotions and got booked. Further along the traffic is being shunted off at 10mph by police and our man spots a woman using her phone whilst driving, allbeit at 10mph, she gets it from him as well. To be honest he was at a stage where he should have gone home.
None of this was staged and was very harrowing. Certainly makes you think and has stuck in my mind.
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