Motorway Cops

Motorway cops have to listen to every excuse in the book -sometimes they're ridiculous, while other times the cops have to work out fact from fiction.

A high speed pursuit through Bradford City Centre ends in a head-on collision, the motorway cops arrive on the scene to find that the passenger of the car being pursued is bleeding from a serious head wound. Although the driver responsible for the crash has fled, the cop's first priority is caring for the injured. It's only when the Paramedics arrive that they can switch from carers back to cops. On the M1 near Wakefield officers pursue another high speed Golf. In his desperation to get away the driver takes more and more risks. The officers are in a race against time to bring in air support before they're ordered to stop the pursuit. On the M62 Officers must force their way through five miles traffic to help a driver broken down in the fast lane and then have to risk their lives helping a family stuck on the hard shoulder. And the Motorway Cops go to the aid of a 91-year-old World War Two veteran whose car has collided with a truck on the M62. He's hoping to get Holland for a regimental reunion and shows such determination to get there that the officers feel compelled to go the extra mile and to help him out.

Motorway cops Matt Hemingway and Aidy Brown are on patrol just outside Leeds when they find themselves in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. Their colleagues need help stopping a stolen car which is getting dangerously close to the city centre - and pursuit-trained officers Matt and Aidy must use all their skills and experience to bring the chase to an end before it gets out of control. Meanwhile in Bradford, PCs Andy Barron and Lindsey Pickles also find themselves in a deadly pursuit. This time an armed gang, intent on settling an old score, have beaten and dragged a man off the street into their car. It is only when the cops threaten to ram the gang's fleeing car and the victim is rescued that a dramatic story starts to emerge, which leads to a major investigation and the conviction of three dangerous men. On the other side of Bradford, officers from the Regional Roads Crime team are on the look-out for drug dealers working the area. It is a slow night until a bad piece of driving changes everything. Cops pull over a suspicious looking car and, after quizzing the driver, they get inside his house and discover a cannabis farm capable of supplying a major drugs operation. Sometimes being in the right place at the right time can lead to some surprising results. When PC Phil Stonebanks stops a suspected stolen truck on the M1 he finds that not everything is quite how it seems. Back on the A1, Matt Hemingway is out on patrol with officer Debbie Collinson. The two cops head out to a three car smash but find the early morning rush hour traffic is against them and a massive tailback is starting to grow. If Debbie and Matt can not get to the accident and clear the road quickly they will have a major incident on their hands.

The West Yorkshire motorway police are not easily surprised or shocked by what they come across on Britain's busiest roads, but when a drunk student in Leeds flags down PCs Dale Anderson and Mick McQuade asking for a lift to France, the two cops quickly realise they have an unusual problem on their hands. Fifty miles away on the A58, an unsuspecting driver escapes with his life when a horse escapes onto a busy main road and collides into his car. As the motorway cops redirect rush hour traffic and call for a vet, they have to make a difficult call on whether to wait for help to arrive or bring in an armed response team to deal with the badly injured horse. There is chaos on the M1 for Acting Sergeant Dale Anderson and his team when he has to deal with a two-car smash and an HGV. It is pitch black, and no-one is providing a clear account of what exactly happened. Adding to the confusion, a convoy of friends who stopped to help out are making it even more difficult for Dale to work out who the drivers are and who caused the accident. Cops from the regional roads crime team are in hot pursuit of a speeding car when intelligence comes through on the police radio that they may want to speak to the driver about more than just driving too fast. There has been another accident on the roads, but this time with tragic consequences when two horses escape from a field and cause a fatal accident. It is late at night and the cops cannot see anything, so they lock down the scene and wait until dawn breaks. At first light the cops and a team of highly-trained accident investigators work methodically through the chain of events that led to a horrific accident involving three cars and two horses on a dark country road.

The Motorway Cops are called to the scene of a head-on collision on the motorway near Birmingham city centre. A woman has died and officers have to clear the road and try to discover the cause of the accident. Keeping the roads safe is a major concern for the Motorway Cops, but sometimes the excuses they hear for poor driving allow them to use their discretion. PCs Martin Smith and Nigel Kearney have to decide whether to 'throw the book' at a trucker who they've caught using his mobile phone while at the wheel of his 44-ton lorry. In Yorkshire, as PCs Jim Duffy and Mick Roffe are forced to chase a man who has run away from them after being handcuffed, PC Matt Fleming faces a difficult choice when the man they have arrested begs the police to let him say goodbye to his girlfriend and their baby daughter before he is returned to jail.

Every year, more than 50 tonnes of heroin and cocaine are sold in Britain, but in the north of England a team of specialist roads crime officers are striking back at the multi-million pound business of moving illegal drugs around the country. And when police from the Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Roads Crime Team are not chasing after drug runners and street dealers, they are always ready to catch a thief or two. One hundred and thirty five miles south, officers from the Central Motorway Police Group near Birmingham patrol more than 600 hundred miles of roads. It is one of Britain's busiest motorway networks, where more than 200,000 motorists travel every day. Much like their counterparts in the north, the cops here target criminals using the roads by a sophisticated network of cameras which automatically read number plates to keep a check on cars and their drivers.

A jack-knifed lorry causes a tailback on the A1 motorway leading to an accident between two lorries, leaving a man dead and forcing the motorway cops to shut the road while they investigate. The motorway cops are involved in a high speed chase but a breakdown in radio communications leaves them playing catch up. A lorry driver diverted from the A1 causes major problems when he crashes into a bridge after underestimating the size of his load.