Fifth Gear's Motorway Pile-up | Fifth Gear Classic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2019
- Taken from episode one of series 4, first broadcast 13th October 2003, Tiff and Vicki investigate the causes of a pile-up and the devastating effects of them.
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The damage there is nothing compared to when an artic or coach meets the back of the queue.
There is a real video of a coach doing just that. It's heart breaking to watch as you know so many people in the first few cars had no chance of surviving.
@@sbomorse theres tons of dashcam videos out there where buses, trucks, vans and cars crushing each other in real pileups....
Whats that
@@eurikadude whats what?
@@eurikadude An artic? I guess it's an articulated truck.
real life beamng
Ben Paye Exactly!! hahahah Love it
Megafriend USA haha same
Yeah 😂
Ethan Jack The Mercedes and the metro would’ve driven away knowing beams logic
I tried to replicate this scenario in beamng, and it was very similar. The only difference was the side of the metro (replaced with a covet) didnt cave in, but it still spun sideways into the back of another car, and there is a fiat uno in the game, which was crushed into a pancake. Frighteningly realistic 🤓
The Fiat Uno turned into the Fiat Zero.
You mean Fiat Cero?
😂
@@simpleflareon Fiat Uno became Fiat Ooooh NO! :-/
Fiat uno just became fidhsism. A literal mess.
nice profile picture
The cars here would have been around 10 years old at the time. Would be interesting to do another test but with cars from around 2009, see how much improvement has been made.
Mhlikescars Yeah most were tin can rust buckets from the early and mid nineties. I remember most of these cars been mocked or going to scrap quite quickly even in the early two thousands.
A lot of crash testing is only done at 30, if that. 70-0mph in an instant will always be messy
Astra GTE at 6:34 is 1983, there's a few others from that era as well. Modern cars are much better of course, but also much bigger, taller, heavier and bulbous because of it.
It's not (just) about the age of the cars! It's more about how you can (easily) prevent this sort of accidents!
@@CassettePlaya1 I can't imagine it'd be much different. You've still got the cars crashing at 70 mph. You're probably still looking at unsurvivable levels of deformation like we see in the video. No amount of modern technology is ever gonna save you from that.
The ones on the uno would be liquified.
Nah. Evaporated.
Alessandro Zavagno no incinerated
On Germany's Autobahn A6 there was such a pile-up in the very late eighties. A policeman told the story how they pulled apart the wrecks of two lorries when clearing up the debris in a talk show. It turned there was some small car smashed in between them, which hadn't been visible from the outside before. The dead bodies of two young women were jammed in there, pressed to stand upright in the compressed wreck. They fell out off it either as the squeeze on them was released.
Man, props to them for actually showing us the unedited clips of the impact - rather than overdoing it with ten different camera angles and not a single undisturbed shot of the crash from beginning to end.
Well that Fiat acted as a very effective crumple zone for the Metro and the Mercedes!! :-O Makes you appreciate how much safer and stronger modern cars really are, especially the smaller and cheaper models. That said the human body does not take well to being slammed at 70mph regardless of what car you're in, that some serious deceleration happening.
True. I think the occupants in the Benz would be fine though, because it had several meters of crumple zone in the form of a Fiat Uno.
The Fiat was bad even by the standards of its day
@@jeff4362 smoooosh
The Uno just disintegrated. Scary.
It's also known as "coffin' car" in Italy.
Moral of the story - get a big Mercedes!
Better options. Get a 7 seaters Tesla Model S or Tesla Model X. They is pretty hard back.
@@RoteLars Yeah, can't crash if you are stuck on the side of the road again
with airbags
No, adapt your speed to the conditions! That's the one and ONLY moral of the story.
No, Even better get a SEMI TRUCK!😂
One of the best videos on road safety I've seen. Lorries and heavy vehicles however weren't mentioned..
Just shows how selfish and carless people are even in those dangeours conditions
Uhm, it’s actually the carless people that pose no harm whatsoever.
@@Lewis2710 being without a car - "car-less"
@@Lewis2710 It was an attempt at a joke.
Keep. A. Good. Following. Distance.
General rule that’ll give you the best chances of having the space to brake or swerve for almost any situation. (& yes it should include adjustments for weather etc).
Very sobering video.
That Mercedes was so beautiful, but yet that was a car built with such superb quality to have handled that impact so well
That almost happened to me last year in Austria,went to 5-10m visibility in like 1second. Emergency lights on,brakes on,and slowed down from 120km to 40-50km reaaaaaaly fast 😱 that was by far the biggest scare ever while driving
To be fair, the uno was a bean tin of a car even before it had 10+ years of rust weaken the structure. The Mercedes w126 on the other hand, was probably the safest car of the 80s and was designed as such. They were absolute tanks.
Those were nice cars, I really liked that Astra and the Escort. But the S-Class was the best car of them all
Most likely the parked cars in the queue were headed for the scrapyard, and probably had blown motors or other major issues.
The metro was brand new
@@thequeensakraut2764 It was an N-reg car so it was ten years old - pretty good going for a Metro!
@@sergiofreitas9368 Not so, in the UK it's normal for most cars to be scrapped when there's nothing wrong with them! We have so many that nobody buys them when they're 20 years old.
@@kyle8952 Oh really? That's sad to hear... An S-Class of that age would definitely have a market for classic buyers (or hoarders) if it was in good enough condition. People only really scrap cars here if they're:
a) crashed
b) blown motor or another severe issue
c) a shitbox that is all run down and is more worth it to scrap than to sell.
What I take out of this is.... buy a classic S-Class! Thanks for the video
Was that a w123 or a w126?
@@atarvhegde5210 W126
@@ttrron1904
Well then the other cars didn't really stand a chance.
@@atarvhegde5210 No, they really didn't. Makes me feel really safe driving my 126 around.
I can still remember the crash back in 97 and I can also remember the crash on the M5 near the Taunton Ruby club and my friend's dog was in the crash and sadly my friend's dog died long with other people
It wasn’t really all that long ago that all those old cars were still on the road!
Yeah, what a shame they no longer are.. I would much rather crash into a squishy old Fiat than a modern C-classe
These are all classics now.
I remember watching this when it was first broadcast and it stuck with me ever since.
I remember watching this as a teenager back when it was broadcast and the sight of that Fiat UNO, with front and rear wheels basically touching has stuck with me vividly all these years. I watched shows like Fifth Gear for entertainment but it says something about Fifth Gear that it actually had (and still does) a positive impact on my driving habits.
Pity that the innocent Mercedes S class had to be destroyed as a prop
They could probably repair that Merc.
i agree but same time it proves how well built it is, so one might consider one now
Those were worthless by 2003 when this was made. Thirsty and incredibly expensive to work on.
And the Metro honestly. They're tons of fun to drive.
Well the merc was be repaired..
The fiat though..
Remember watching this on first transmission years and years ago, kinda sparked my interest in panel beating,
Learning crash theory and the many designed flex points in a car,
A crash happens so fast the human eye simply can not see how much a vehicle twists and bends like a springy sponge, car safety systems Can Help save lives, ignorance simply kills regardless of how many safety are installed as they are all worthless if your not a safe driver , how many people noticed the black square astra gte in the right hand row, vauxhall nuts are sobbing right now,
Poor S-Class 😢❤️
Poor Fiat I'd rather say 😅
Why did they have to ruin that Beautiful old classic .
METRO😝
austinrover2005
I had two one X reg with the larger headlight level to the grill.
And Another on a B reg Vandem plus
I think it was nicer looking than the old bronze X.
But it was a pile of 💩 subframe , gearbox, then engine kaput , May be I did thrash it a bit too hard 😊bi was only 18
Metros are great fun. They're getting rare these days :(
SF44
I had fun it I don’t argue that, I thrashed the 💩 out of it. A friend has a fiesta 1.1 Ghia it would ever so slightly make a gap on the Fezza but 4th gear was like a E gear or over drive it wouldn’t go anywhere in 4th, so I’d have to rio the arse out of third .
Proud owner of a '92 Mbenz 280SE :)
11th December 1984 M25 westbound where Clackett Lane Services are located since being built in the early 90s. Probably the worst pile up in modern times . People burnt alive in vehicles etc.
Gotta love the sanctimonious attitudes of 5th gear like these sorts of crashes could never happen to them.
I had one of those concertina crashes at 0:30 coming up behind me but i always leave a gap between me and the car in front and as I didn’t want to damage my car i could hear the banging of the cars crashing into one another so at the last second i put my foot down and sped forward then braked harshly to stop before the car in front i stopped the crashing and saved my car from any damage.
Some of those cars in that demonstration, such as the Metro, the Escort and the Cavalier, would have been worth a lot of money today. Let’s have a moment of silence for the soon-to-be classics that laid down their lives so us motorway drivers can continue to live the rest of ours. Lord, hear our prayer. 🙏
Iv been looking for this
If you're familiar with the group 'Autoshite' on Facebook then you'll love this video 🤣
I was in a train cab doing 100mph in fog,you had the train safely systems telling you go on greens,as we passed the A12 cars overtook us!!!!!!
4:00 the impact
Tiff is a amazing driver, abile to drive fast & skilfully.
However even he knows when to drive slow. & that’s why he’s a Good driver.
Big car doesn't mean survival. 2 people I know know died in Australia when the driver slowed for smoke from a bush fire and were rear ended by a 140 tonne road train that was still doing 100 kmh.
How to survive:
1: get a benz
2:be in the 80s
Thats all
Yeet 6 likes
(edit) guys i have grown up i dont know why i am here but this is absolute cringe im doing
AcoolGuyOnYT 28 now
And on a serious note as said in the video with modern airbags and seatbelts the family in the Mercedes would’ve survived on top of that you probably would’ve been able to fix up the car to be roadworthy again since it didn’t seem to of taken too big of a hit
Defo the safest car I’ve owned it’s a tank
Just get an old Volvo smh
69 now
Why ruin a beautiful classic W126 ?
Bilal Ahmed ikr it was gorgeous
It was in 2003. The Mercedes wasnt worth much
Bene zkt I don’t know what you’re talking about. These are very popular in the restoration market, pretty high in value.
But in 2003 it was very cheap and not so wanted. For Example a 2003 s class is today not much worth. like the w126 in 2003.
@@benezkt4189 true. my father had a 1985 240D benz. When he got rid of it in 2004 it was almost worthless. He got more money by scrapping it.
Poor rover metro... that was my mum's first car in blue, she loved it
My reaction to the video: Pay attention to your driving and your surroundings all the time. Also, whenever fog comes on the motorway, SLOW DOWN, YOU DONKEYS.
Still to the day, this scares me. Yes the Merc was unscathed internally but only until the next lunatic comes barreling through. Then comes a lorry or two.
Even when you drive leaving an airport runway in front everybody swerves into it in an emergency anyway so still no guarantee of avoiding getting hit or hitting someone else.
Now im going to get anxiety everytime traffic suddenly slows down ahead of me and the car behind me is coming behind me fast
If you see that happening sound your horn to alert them and look for a safe exit from your lane. Also do an advanced driving course. It might also reduce your insurance costs.
Having been a passenger in a car that was at the back of the pack and did indeed get hit. I can tell you this is a terrifying experience. Luckily for us though, it wasn't in fog, just at night and the guy did eventually notice and break, but not in time and hit us doing a good 40 to 50 mph.
Winter white-out and glare ice one day on the expressway one evening... I'd slowed to 25~30 MPH, hazards on. Suddenly I was overtaken by a large herd of SUVs (this was in America btw, SE corner of Lake Michigan/known bad spot) all plowing along at 70 MPH+ or so. Got a couple of looks from the windows of those 4wd behemoths as they flew by... "lol look at Mr. Slow" was written on their faces as they all but pointed and laughed at the little borrowed Toyota.
Time passed and we (wife and baby son were in the car too) continued on at our happy snail's pace, warm, dry and making steady if glacial progress. Then in the distance... lights. Not on the roadway, but in the median. One of the big 4x4s had spun off the road. A minute or so later there was another, and another, and another and... you get the picture. Most of the nearly dozen or so managed to at least stay on their wheels... a few did not.
Even though I had time to take it all in at my leisurely pace I was mostly focusing on the road, and I couldn't see their faces... but something tells me their expressions had changed. It's a fairly remote stretch of highway, and recovery there is slow and expensive, especially in blizzard conditions.
Eventually I came upon a State Trooper stopped under an underpass near one of the last (first?) wrecks, and pulled over to have a chat... told him what I'd seen spread out behind us all down the median and ditch, and how they'd gotten there. "Roger" he said, "then they're all getting tickets, too" and he called for backup.
We plodded on, eventually broke out of the worst of it to better conditions and made it to our destination... tired, late and hungry but fully intact.
It was on the news the next day... not everyone had survived.
TLDR: Slow down. The life you save might be that of someone you love.
W126 sure is strong
The thing is, People still drive like arseholes in bad weather etc, even though the know the risk.
I passed my driving test recently and I really wish they showed these sorts of things in the theory test to those participating in them. They give you hazard perception tests without showing you what happens if you lapse in your concentration on the road. Such a sobering video that would shock all the other guys with R plates who drive as if they're in a car with full carbon ceramics.
The person who went to prison as a result of the 1997 pile up was David Fairclough who was 46 at the time. He was acquitted for death by dangerous driving. And his driving license was suspended for 4 years.
i love the way u give us content from 2011
2003*
@@Wirldly rlly?????
@@rarest_dude yes
@@Wirldly wow that’s old
Considering I just saw a Dell Inspiron 8200 (? at least it looks like a i8200) this was recorded in the early 2000s.
Testing with a metro isn't a great example. It's like being hit by a sheet of paper
Bit harsh, more like cardboard.
The great thing about modern cars with radar AEB, is that the car can see through fog like this. The technology is astounding.
Samuel Bomorse not necessarily useful if you’re doing 70 and they’re at 0.
@@jackshotton9222 enough to slow you down massively, if not to a stand still. The system in my car works at speeds up to 120MPH. The latest cars systems can see 500 metres away.
Dont buy a Fiat, buy a Merc!
Beamng drive irl be like
My phone vibrated when the car smashed into the other cars, youtube is getting intelligent
Good timing notification
Kind of soothing to know that I'll not be as dead in my W126.
I learned my lesson years ago. Used to drive faster then I could see, then I had a very near miss from someone driving absurdly slow (10-20kmh seriously pull off the road at that point) I was driving much faster then I should have likely 80-90kmh in a heavy downpour and escaped without incident. Someone had passed me seconds before, had they still been beside me I would have had nowhere to go and rear ended a tractor trailer. I was driving a 40,000lb truck and would have been squished like a bug. I had probably less then 2 seconds to react at that speed. I learned a valuable lesson early in my driving career. I could have easily killed myself or someone else with my behavior.
Reminds me of every episode of CHiPs
I'm glad the roads are getting safer on the motorways!
3:35 Ooh, I've felt that feeling before.
You saw what the Mercedes did to the other cars. Now imagine what would happen nowadays with all those huge cars driving around.
The S-Class in the video weighs around 1,6 tons while a BMW X6 or a Ford Ranger weigh a about 2,2 tons.
And the refinement and tech to distract from actually driving and awareness of how fast they're moving when it's important to know.
2 years ago damn
i remember watching this!
What year is it from.
TheProGamer 75 early 2000s i seem to remember...i was a young teen when i first saw it so it would be 2003/2004 at a guess
TheProGamer 75 13th October 2003 - Series 4 ep 1 so i was right with the year....it was in the description
@@marzuqahmed218 I remember watching it too. Mind you, that was only 2 minutes ago!
Poor little Metro
I remember that accident I had to go out to it
People keep saying "how dare they ruin a beautiful W126 S Class"...
Guys, this was filmed in 2003. Back then that car was worthless
But it was still beautiful!
Karlos Triño If your perception of a good car is price, them you have bad taste, and are not a genuine car enthusiast.
@@SURENITY I was literally just commenting on all the people bemoaning on how the show ruined a classic S-Class when at the time of filming the car was worth next to nothing. Where'd you even get that thinking that my perception is more pricey = better car? Nowhere in that comment did I say or even imply that. I don't give two shits about how much a car costs, my dream car is a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX and it's pennies compared to classic sports cars and today's most technologically advanced hypercars. I also know some cheap-ass cars that are miles better than some of the most expensive stuff on the road.
This is really shocking me cause I always drive way to fast
This is horrifying. Sadly a realistic occurence due to way too many idiots on the roads.
Es increíble con una distracción al conducir , como mirar el celular , se hacer un desastre
CaRs WeRe BuIiT BeTtEr iN tHe 80s 🙄
Definetly I really enjoy cars crumbling like a plastic cup
90sbaby 00skid look how the Benz held up, I bet the doors still open
My G wagon was built in the 80s and it’s built like a tank.
Yes and no, i agree some were stronger and after a crash looked in ok condition, and the weaker ones had stupid thin metal so a coke can has more structural strength, however there was a big gulf between a strong car like the merc and the weak metro's uno's etc,
The problem with a vehicle that stays solid in a high speed impact is the damage to your body you cant see because of laterial g-force,
If the force of the impact is not "absorbed" thru crumble zones the force has to exit somewhere, and those forces get put thru your body, and can break bones, cause blood vessels to just "pop" and massave internal bleeding, can bruise internal organs causing swelling and stopping them working,
Yeah if i have a bump i would like to repair my car, but rather trash a car then not live another day,
Problem with the others is they were so weak that in a medium speed crash they fold up and you become one with the car,
What we got to relise is now more people walk away from incidents that 30 years ago would of killed them with no exception,
Upside down I’m going to speak for the 80s Mercedes because I do have experience with those but I’ve heard many story’s of people who were hit or hit other people in an 80s or 90s benz and came out fine, some even better than the people in the newer car involved. Mercedes spent over a billion on the production of the w140 and close to that on the 80s s class which was e first car to have air bags as standard in 86; I’m pretty sure they’ve got crumple zones too looking at some of there design videos from the 70s on the w123
Richard Hammond will show you how crashes are done properly.
These guys do the experiments FOR US so we don't have to. Just like Brainiac. These sorts of videos always encourage me to drive better. I just wouldn't drive in fog.
1:03 I hope they had a good time in the car wash!
Holy shit, that Uno! and what if a HGV went into the pile, God forbid a tanker or explosive chemicals truck. *Shudders
I used to drive an Uno when I was a teenager, I always thought that if I had a crash I would have been fucked!
2:43 proper 70s like cop
I want to see tests like this done with modern cars like Tesla and Volvo so bad, but they would be so expensive lol.
Poor Bluebird 😢
This is the channel for people who don’t like future classic cars
Fiat makes sturdy hubcaps
after this episode im paying attention to road signals speed limitation like never before . saw it 2 years ago still remember .
and thats why i love a big german made car, no matter the maker, they are all great.
6:33 that's a nova gte... worth more than that merc by now
I see homer in one of the cars doing a face palm
Classics motors now . long gone now
I think the people in the Uno would just be about mush..
Dont even get me started with the 1970's Ford Pinto. Damn that gas tank is not well-thought.
That thing is just,just dont talk about it,the ford pinto sucks
Not gonna lie, that old s class was an absolute TANK
Ok, will do
Cars are designed for some frontal impact protection but, so it seems, not so much for rear impact.
I drive for a living and it always amazes the number of people that drive too close to the back of my bus.
Uno is like an egg
Merc is a tank
It's not fair
No surprise that the Mercedes-Benz remained pretty much intact. The safety cell really does give occupants a high chance of survival in a front end or rear end crash.
I thought the Hungerford M4 crash was the worst ever? Many more deaths due to the fireball that was caused by a Tanker driver being a pratt and smashing into the back of the queue of traffic; the saddest part is that he survived.
The car should be tested for 100-120kmph speed. Rather than for 60kmph.More than that In a modern world need for real time traffic/ vehicular movement or weather monitoring system is required. Not much of progress is gone in this direction. Need warning signal at every 1kms with camera for real time monitoring , With digitised system need for on board traffic/ weather monitoring device which can provide automated alert on visibility , snow, rain or to reduce the speed and what speed to maintain or update on real time prevailing conditions & much more. Need of the hour. All said and done it's on our part to drive carefully and responsibily and understand the condition till such roads and systems are introduced.
poor nice old mercedes... but it shows the quality! and tge Koel Kadett E is already a collectors car in Germany
shame for w126 looks at good condition,small cars is a criminal offence to maker
Just imagine a G whizz at the back of que! The car would be destroyed..
This was informative. I bought that Mercedes.