999 code 1 Emergency drive to reported car crash on M4 6 to 5 stationary traffic
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2018
- Drive to RTC on M4 through stationary traffic, check out the rear camera view for the TRL crash investigators following me
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Dear All, I’m Mitch, the Director of Sicuro....owner of the Van in question.
We sincerely apologise on behalf of Sicuro UK for the upset and unjustifiable behaviour. This behaviour is not condoned at any level and Sicuro can confirm that the driver seen in this footage, no longer works for Sicuro UK. Again Sicuro would like to apologise for the upset and will continue to run with strict policies with a zero tolerance to such appalling behaviour
Mitch
Well done for posting this comment i normally don't agree with people being sacked but the person in questions behaviour was inexcusable. 🇬🇧👍
Kudos for posting. Normally I'm against the interwebs torch-wielding "fire 'em" type, but considering your business, an employee this oblivious in traffic isn't likely to be any more attentive guarding a location.
I hope you can use this as an opportunity to train your people to keep their heads on a swivel even when they think it's just moving from a to b.
When you work for a company and display the brand like this, it damages the companies image (obviously!), so good to see that you hold your employees accountable for their actions.
@@puentebob2011 If you represent a company in such a way that can be damaging to the portrayal of said company, you can be sacked on the spot.
That is without including the contract agreed upon by both the employer and employee which may or may not outline situations that center around poor representation of a company, which could also more than justify the firing of the employee.
Don't pretend to know what you don't.
@@puentebob2011 and I hope that one day the so called over paid blue light cowboys don't come to you aid when you need them most..
Watching the amount of hard shoulder work makes any sane person realise why "smart" motorways are a very bad idea!
Hypergolic I was just thinking the same.
Smart motorways! Do you realise how dangerous they are? Hope you don't break down in a live lane and pray nobody hits you you!
Yet most dual carriageways don't have any hard shoulder and work perfectly fine.
My sentiments exactly.
@@devon896 most dual carriageways deal with a whole lot less traffic and there is only really one place for the E.V. to go, straight down between the two lanes, however a motorway such as in this case has 3 lanes, and as demonstrated multiple times during this video, a lot of people don't use their mirrors and also get easily confused
I have been a professional driver for around 20 years and driving over 40 and I have to say the level of concentration is extraordinary.
Hats off to the driver.
Brilliant driving...
You have to concentrate so much, if you let the red mist come down then you have lost it.
This is another reason why we need hard shoulders and not smart motorways.
Very good demonstration of how vital it is to keep calm and just execute one task at a time but plan for the next 5.
This is why we need to keep the hard shoulder!
You took the words of the hard shoulder out of my mouth
@@jamesball8966 I worked on highways and freeways in my country for years. Problem with any shoulders is its riddled with nails and screws and all sort of puncture stuff.
@monsieurtechnical 100% agree with you on this one,
I know us Brits often don't like change, but when the change is as stupid as this, I think we have a right to revolt!
Personally I'd argue that it's a lack of driver awareness. We could have roads without hard shoulders, but the knowledge of a German style "Rettungsgasse" and practicing it, would provide a much needed corridor for emergency response.
Here the hard shoulder disappeared every so often, leading to a frenzy through stationary vehicles... rettungsgassee in place would be a critical time save
@@trr4488 Unlesss cleaned, and the Highways Agency do what they can with rducing budgets.
It never fails to amaze how stupid the average driver is. Literally not moving out of the way for 999 vehicles. These people should be contacted after the event and sent on a self funded driver awareness course!
Probably got earphones on...
I honestly think the "average" driver is OK. It's the below average ones that are the dickheads. Most people moved out of the way, or at least attempted to.
@@MrSolodriver the amount of inattentive drivers on the road outweighs the attentive ones, so technically speaking the "average driver" is blissfully unaware of their surroundings until something goes bang.
As a former blue light driver and motorcyclist I too have seen some utter stinkers on the road, but have also seen some (unfortunately less than the former) absolutely brilliant and aware drivers.
I mean just for one example, I was on a big 1100 cc Honda with full hi Viz livery, blue led strobes to the front, side and rear, a blue xenon strobe, 100watts of siren sounding, wearing hi Viz jacket, white helmet and travelling along a single carriageway road... Car approaches the giveway to my left and doesn't stop, with me about 50-60 yards away at about 70 mph, cars coming in opposite direction so had to brake heavily and thread my bike down the white line to avoid him...
Since then the junction has been made a stop junction instead of giveway... I had a transplant organ on board at the time, the driver didn't even look.
czcams.com/video/oVCsOfWcr00/video.html
The average driver is clearly perfectly competent as it was only the odd few individuals that caused any issues. It is the self righteous that think they know it all that are the problem.
This is another reason why hard shoulders should remain on our motorways
With a smart motorway, there would have been a lane closure, enforced by signals and cameras, preventing the bulk of traffic from using it. The response time would have been quicker than in this video. Source: Im a responder.
@@pentaveratevideo and how long would it have taken for the lane to be cleared, as the traffic can only squeeze into so much space, whereas the hardshoulder would already be clear?
@@MrMellowMan the hard shoulder is almost never clear. People pull onto it to try and bypass the traffic and there are a number of other issues related to using the hard shoulder. I've literally just finished dealing with a live lane RTC and worked my way between lanes 3&4 which were able to clear a space for me very easily. When there is an obstruction on the hard shoulder it's considerably more difficult to get past it.
@@pentaveratevideo the hard shoulder is much clearer than no hard shoulder. I used to sometimes drive over a thousand miles a day, all on motorways, so you telling me you are a emergency response driver doesn't tell me anything at all. I am going by this video, and I know if the hard shoulder was clear, the emergency response would have got there a lot quicker, whereas iif there was no hard shoulder, it would have taken longer to get there
@@MrMellowMan I've been doing it. Today. Intermittent hard shoulder so I stayed working through the 2 offside lanes except when it became necessary to move over. I don't care how many miles a day you drive, you don't force your way through traffic with flashing lights and audible warnings. I do and I can tell you that offside lanes are often the best choice when traffic is either stopped or less than walking speed. When it's still moving slightly, hard shoulder will usually be my preference.
Yet more evidence of the urgent need to halt any further expansion of Smart Motorways, and restore the hard shoulders.
If that's the case then shouldn't every dual carriageway in the country also have a hard shoulder?
This video just shows how important the hard shoulder is. It should be shown to every road engineer and polition involved with road safety.
This is next level driving. I'm exhausted just watching it! Once you arrive, there's no time to stop for a brew either. My hat is most definitely off!!
0:31 The guy in the SECURO van that refused to move over should be prosecuted. How can you have an emergency vehicle behind you for a full minute and not notice that they're there? That's just ridiculous. God only knows how long he'd have been stuck behind the moron had he not undertaken; If this is not an offence then it should be. Too many people these days are driving around in a damn daze.
The skill of this driver avoiding so many chances for a collision is quite incredible. Other driver's reactions are so variable and the emergency driver has to keep their cool in the face of things that would cause most normal drivers to "lose their rag" I'm well impressed by this. It's hard enough to filter down queues on a touring motorcycle as I've done that but with a large vehicle it's a nightmare.
This video is driving me nuts.... So many people need to be off the road and counted with disabilities to be walked with someone else's help... Complete lack of self awareness... What about the rest? I'm just thinking how they manage to put food in their mouth... What a place to be, really?!?!? 🤧
That IDIOT van driver 00:30 - 01:42 would loose his licence immediately in ANY cultured European country. There is another brain dead at 04:07 and an MTS "professional" driver at 05:05. It's just outrageous, that UK drivers can do whatever they want. What a shame! 100% agree with @Damian C and a big respect to @Mitch Nunn.
I can't get through this, drivers' stupidity knows no bounds, this is too frustrating to watch.
As a person that uses motorways every day, smart motorways do not work, this Is a perfect example of why we need hard shoulders
Here in the USA... for Oregon and Washington state at least... you get cited and fined for "failure to yield to emergency vehicle". The citation goes to the owner of the car as taken from the license plate, and the fine is owed by the owner of the vehicle UNLESS that owner can prove they weren't driving the vehicle. They have to provide the name and contact info for who WAS driving it, or they pay the fine. Not sure how much it is, as I've never been such a drone as to not move out of the way, but it's likely pretty steep.
I know people who drive like that... mindless drones who have zero idea and even less care for what's going on around them. They drive me absolutely insane, they're terrifying to ride with, and however nice a person they might be... it's REALLY hard not to tear their heads off for it.
Eyes up and out folks. Ears too. Other people live and drive around you, and your actions don't only affect you.
I am impressed the majority of drivers seemed to have good situational awareness considering they didn't know your route or goals, I recently was blocking the path of an ambulance because the car in front of me moved of the carriageway and stopped stopping me from moving of the carriageway to allow the ambulance to it's destination it was only repeated sound of my airhorn that resolved the situation
UK needs to invest in "Rumbler" sirens, they work because you can feel them.
And a bull horn
We have them, drivers are still ignorant
@@CiaranGallagher77 we have bullhorns. I live near a main road, it's an A road but not a dual carriageway and hear bullhorns quite often. Theres some tossers on that road too
@@samuelpinder1215 it worries me how many people don't know how to react to blues and twos
I missed an ambulance with a rumbler; it sounded like a machine of some sort, and did not recognise it as a siren.
This video is a perfect illustration of how important ‘hard shoulders’ are.
nothing an emergency corridor wouldn't be able to fix ...
@@EnjoyFirefighting what’s an emergency corridor? I’m not being thick, I genuinely don’t know x
@@andy62716 It's sth done in e.g. Germany, Austria and few other countries. Once vehicles approach and end up in a traffic jam all vehicles in the left lane pull to the far left, all vehicles lane(s) to the right pull to the right (in the UK obviously the other way around). This creates a corridor for emergency vehicles between the far left and the other lanes, no matter if there's a hard shoulder or not, no matter if the hard shoulder is wide enough, too narrow, free or blocked: czcams.com/video/7kPT7VHVTb8/video.html
Some drivers are on another planet. It's scary!
Great advert for Sicuro @0:20 to @1:40. He was certainly not monitoring or responding, other than to whatever he was streaming (evident by blocking the outside lane). Highway's Agency collision investigators must spend hours queuing unless Code 1 pick them up en route. As for the panicked Audiot @11:23, I'm glad they came to their hesitant senses despite using the hard shoulder as a layby!
I’m just surprised took the Collision investigator over 1 min 30 secs to run his beacons on. I used to light my beacons every chance I got but surely he was allowed to use them as soon as the copper picked him up.
@@martuhurley but then again he turned them off a few minutes later.
It's amazing how many drivers are on the road who don't use there mirrors!! It's not hard to check them
When traffic stops the first thought should be to leave a line to emergency vehicles even if they don't come. It is the least in Europe. Should be first to teach in the UK.
Fantastic driving guys,(not the muppit in the van) what on earth will the emergency services do when were all forced to drive on SMART motorways !!!!!
That’s so cool the way they escorted the collision investigation car
Thank you I was wondering who that was behind the officer. I'm from the states and our highway patrol officers conduct collision investigation.
Always neat to learn how other countries do things.
@@SOAxZIPPER Yeah usually our police have their own collision investigation units. That must have been some form of private company that the police requested.
@Googleisgay Googleispaedos lmao its not even a police car you fud 🤦♂️ pathetic some people trying to find any excuse they can to make a dig at the police when they dont have the slightest idea what they're talking about
@@EastSussex999 It's the Transport Research Laboratory. They used to be part of the Department for Transport, they've since been privatised although they continue to do the same work under contract.
Great drive, and no expletives, well done. I used to love those drives.
Thanks 👍
All that congestion and then you have to deal with the incident, 1st class driving.
watching videos like these makes you wonder, why did they take out the hard shoulder, and branded it as smart motorway
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Unfortunate that so many old bridges were built without hard shoulder under them. Or is it because the motorway got an extra lane at one point?
motorway got an extra lane
That's often the case, I've seen many areas on motorways that get an extra lane and lose the hard shoulder near bridges.
It did get an extra lane, a lot of the M4 east of Cardiff is like it, although the section in the video is now a smart motorway and all of the bridges had to be demolished and new ones were usually lifted in as an off-site build. Smart motorway is now very much built-in to the design as the bridges won't ever be changed again.
The 'van' incident reminds me of a similar occurrence on a video called 'The Liver Run'. A police vehicle was transferring a donated organ from (I think) Stansted Airport to a London hospital where the recipient was already undergoing preparatory surgery. Of course, some idiot thought it would be amusing to sit in the right-hand lane and hold the police car up. Luckily they made it to the hospital just in time, but it was close.
The video is definitely worth a watch, it is on CZcams. ..
An oldie but a goodie, they use Rover SD1's and a 3 litre Senator from memory. The Rover's brakes were cooked by the time they got to the hospital.
@@andrewlaw And one of the escorting police bikes blew up its engine...
20 Years ago in July my wife received a liver transplant, the liver came from NZ to AUS I would hate to to think were I would be now if at every corner Muppets held everything up. 20 years later I think how lucky am I.
Those sirens on main car are awfully quiet and not attention grabbing otherwords easy to miss and why did the response car behind not have his lights on for like most of the driving? very dangerous...people normally clear out way then immediately return back to normal positions and there was a few times that volvo almost got squished...like he puts them on while driving on pointless shoulder then soon as back in traffic turns them off..are they not allowed to use lights or something? don't see point in them having lightbars and stuff or even having these people if they have to sit back in traffic like everyone else.
I always think the problem is people arent actually paying full attention...they're driving but aren't 100% focussed to their surroundings so half the time they dont hear or see the emergency vehicle until it breaks the weird zone out space drivers are in...scary when you think about it!
Nice to see driver awareness while driving with emergency vehicles behind them!!
It always amazes me, as to how many drivers simply ignore emergency vehicle Blues & Two's, criminal I think, your clear path could mean someones life is saved,.. Great driving Sir, desite the idiots you encountered..... One day, the technology will be developed which makes emergency sirens superseed anything on a mobile radio,..
When building motorway’s the hard shoulder should be made wider for E.R.Vs ?
Two things are immediately apparent. Rear view mirrors are an optional car accessory, and electronic sirens are absolutely useless- bring back the two-tone horns.
some people havent a clue,luckily most drivers are sensible and do.
This is not the m4 as I know it. I passed my test after the start of it being turned into a smart motorway. So all I see is a construction site with 3 lanes on each side
For some reason, almost every driver hits the brakes when they realize there’s an emergency vehicle behind them
The vehicle that followed the emergency vehicle was a crash investigator - usually for serious accidents!?
that van driver should receive a fine for not moving
Would love to see the mastermind who had the idea of doing away with hard shoulders put his or her hand up and say it was them 🤔
That video demonstrated the importance to hard shoulders; they play a vital role of saving lives. The worst thing they did was to create these 'smart' motorways - There is nothing smart about them.....
I rember a few years ago that there was a new siren being tested which was supposed to be better at alerting other motorists of an emergency vehicle approaching. it was a kind of a buzzing sound as I think some of the motorists were clearly not hearing the police vehicle.
It was a hiss type sound, the idea being it had multiple frequencies rather than a single tone/frequency (although the police siren here changes tone, at any given point it is only one tone).
It was less to do with being audible - the idea was to make it easier to perceive the direction of the siren, as single tones reflect everywhere consistently and are difficult for humans to direction find - you hear the siren but don't know where it's coming from.
Doesn't seem to have taken hold with plod vehicles but it does turn up each time an HGV indicates left, before telling cyclists not to get in the squish zone.
So stressful (and slow) without the hard shoulder to run in. Wonder what Chris feels about ‘Smart’ m-ways?
Also where's there's no hard shoulder or road works happing why can we the uk take notes from other countries and make a clear lane when traffic is getting heavy? Anyone know why this doesn't happen??
Can anyone tell me why the emergency services started filtering between the lanes a few years ago when the hard shoulder was still available everywhere? White Audi on the shoulder should have gotten a ticket in the post.
It’s always great to see how many drivers seem to doze at the wheel.
1:20 years ago we would have a car stop this driver further ahead and he would be heavily fined. I see the general public are still the same as back in the early eighties and just won't get out of the way for emergency vehicles even though they can see them a mile away. Sad.
Instigate a new test that revolves around how to "work" with the emergency service to keep out of their way and give them the best opportunity to get their in the fastest time
Respectfully, no. Learning to drive is difficult enough and the thing I was taught was that emergency drivers will work around you - usually the safest/best thing to do is to stop.
In later lessons I was advised not to do this in certain situations (solid line/single track roads) which makes sense, though it does require a certain amount of confidence to be "on point" for a blue light vehicle. I've done a lot of miles since then and never had to do it.
Seen some other crazy shit though - broken exhausts giving off fireworks and Luton vans with open doors and unsecured furniture wobbling on the back ignoring my gesticulating as they approached the M1 slip...
@@blehblah9309 people that can't shouldn't have a drivers licence its NOT a game !
How many pratts oblivious to sirens and flashing lights behind them?
Just another typical day with drivers failing to return to near side lanes after overtaking on the motorway. It’s a result of lack of basic traffic law enforcement. How many of you now sit behind drivers hogging the middle and offside lane for no reason. This video should not surprise anybody, more motorway policing and enforcement needed.
The fastest roads in the country and no one is taught how to use them 🙃
Failing to get out of the way for a blue light should be undue care and attention, 9 points and a £2500 fine.
This video is a great advert for hard shoulders.
Excellent driving, and your patience was on point. Cheers from a former EMT from the US, I’ve noticed that it doesn’t matter what country you’re from people on the roadway can be total dipshits.
So here in the U.S you are required by law to give way to emergency vehicles and move as far as is safe. Is there the same legal requirement to do so in the UK
No, emergency services here still have to give way to the public. This is why sometimes we will turn our sirens off at red lights if the public can not move so we don't panic them into doing something dangerous.....
They notice you when they look up, from their mobile phone ?
what we all need is hard shoulders on our motor ways you did a grand job of getting through with all the stupid people about
That collision investigation driver was probably thinking thank god because they can follow someone though
How far ???
Ich weiß nicht, wie es in GB ist, aber mir ist bekannt, dass "999" eine Notfallmeldung eines Retters ist!?!? Was bedeutet es in GB?
So much time saved with the hard shoulder. To think what lives will and have been lost with them being taken away.
This run just shows the stupidity of not having constant hard shoulders without obstructions. It wouldn't cost that much to cut the bridge back further so it still has a solid foundation. As for that Hyundai, just before you reached the waitrose lorry, I have NEVER met a Hyundai being driven by a competent driver, ever.
Are the collision investigation cars equipped with lights and sirens? Stay safe and healthy. Thanks for your service and keep it going.
Amber lights yeah, but they're non-emergency vehicle, it's like seeing a construction vehicle e.g. digger, crane or a dustbin truck with ambers... they're none emergency vehicles, and the use of ambers is to make them visible. If it was an emergency vehicle, it be blues, or in some countries red and blue, and in Germany green / blue (they have both)
And this is why we have a hard shoulder, imagine if this was the M42 and the hard shoulder was open to drivers.
Imagine trying to do this now on a 'smart motorway' with no hard shoulder to weave in and out of...
Just goes to show the importance of a good hard shoulder - not like the M20 in Kent (smart motorway!!)
Good driving and poor response from so many drivers, mostly van drivers. Now we are losing the hard shoulders to become Smart Motorways’, let’s see that run again now it’s two years later.
This is now a so called Smart motorway, what chances do they stand of getting through ?????
Just curious, what was the orange vehicle for that was following?
Its the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) from Crowthorne
Why no loudspeaker to instruct the car in front to go left or right?
Very good driving, that van driver though
In Germany cars will create an open space between lanes for emergency vehicles, like the parting of the Red Sea.
USA driver here, is the right lane the fast lane ??
There is no fast lane. The speed limit is the same in all lanes. Traffic is required to keep to the left lane, except when overtaking, then return to the left lane as soon you can do so safely.
Just joking
Do the police get points for the length of the tailbacks?
Big question - How main police officers does it take to change a light bulb?
The people in the accident investigation car must have thought 'this is handy'
All countries need emergency lanes only on both sides of road ways only.
The problem is that the stupid sirens in emergency vehicles are not fit for purpose You cannot always hear them unlike the old 2 tone horns that 1 you could hear for miles and were also directional so you new where it was coming from !
Emergency drive Uk 10:23 what is that noise?
That was the radio message being bleeped out.....
I wonder how many people got punctures from driving on the edge of the road.
It hurts my brain to see everyone driving on the wrong side of the road...
Smart motorways require that drivers be smart but that ain't happening anytime soon. Grant Schapps - sort it! Revert to hard shoulder motorways and get rid of 'Smart' ones. They're a danger to lives and the emergency services need them! Excellent driving sir!
Exakt for stucked traffic we have in the FRG the rule "left line go left, all other right lines to right. So in the middle of left and right line(s) the emergency apparatus can go easily trough. BTW: We use the "right-before-left role" too.
so many people need to think ahead when you approach. so many silly positions ppl put themself in slowing you down.
Some drivers just don't know where to go when an emergency vehicle comes up quickly behind them, I think that it's something else that should be introduced into the driving test.
Incredible driving with nerves of steel by that cop driver.
Yep, fully agree with idiot drivers not getting out of the way.
Sometimes they freeze or sometimes they're not just concentrating what's around them and what's behind them. They're not using rear mirrors !!
Why was that van just staying in lane3 use your mirrors
Kennen die keine Rettungsgasse?
nein natürlich nicht ... es gibt nur sehr wenige Länder wo es diese gibt!
I am surprised the ambulance didn't have an accident
Why not use the hard shoulder?
There isn't much hard shoulder here between junc 6 and 5 due to the bridges.....i would always try to use it when its available,
Where are all the anti undertaking experts now?
At 4:06 'don't go in there, I'm going there'. How the hell does the driver know you are going onto the hard shoulder. They are making the correct manoeuvre by pulling over to the left hand side.
Toby, your are right. They are doing the right thing, but it can sometimes get frustrating as they don't know what we want to do..... keep watching
good job for the hard shoulder,got to keep them.
makes a good argument for motorcycle emergency vehicles, nice driving though.
You might say, it just goes to prove that not all of this tearing about on blues and twos isn't always necessary, as there was already all of the emergency services at the scene. It would have been better handled with a little more communication between control and the police mobiles, and not least letting the public know what's going on, holding the traffic up....
It's scary to see, how many drivers give a sh*t splitting the lane.
As long as drivers obey the lane closed signs Smart Motorways seem an balance to be a good idea. BUT I have seen too many drivers using closed lanes to queue jump.
I wonder if this excellent driver, is still driving a traffic car. This government has cut traffic staffing by over a quarter in the last five years. Thankfully they have 'paused' the introduction of smart Motorways. As others have said, a very good additional reason for keeping the hard shoulder.
I have now retired, I was a fire officer but the fire service has the same problem with reducing numbers due to cost cutting....
It seems to me it should be made mandatory for drivers queing in heavy traffic like this to automatically create an emergancy corridor between lanes 2&3 as a standard practice. IE When approaching standing/very slow moving traffic - those in lane 3 stick to the right hand side, those in lane 2 to the left - just in case an emergency vehicle needs to get through. Would make things one hell of a lot easier and faster for reponse drivers. Thinking about it - all HGVs, coaches, etc should be restriced to lane one in heavy traffic as well - to get them out of the way.
This is mandatory in Germany, they have a special name for it, Rettungsgasse and it works a treat, should be taught at driving lessons over here
Like my daily commute everyone half asleep and not focused on the road