Motorway: Hell on the Highway

When tyres and wheels fail - from a car catapulted spectacularly high into the air to a truck's catastrophic tyre explosion. Experts assess a new set of dramatic traffic incidents.

Cameras reveal what can happen when people drive too fast, from a game of cat and mouse between a motorbike and a car that goes horribly wrong in Florida, to the Arizona driver whose race through the mountains ends in catastrophe down a cliff.

Cameras focus on disasters caused by driving rain, from a motorcyclist in Thailand sliding uncontrollably down a flooded freeway, to a driver in Eastern Europe whose car slides out of control and somersaults towards a forest.

In this episode we reveal disasters caused by drivers drifting across the carriageway, from the worker who crashed a tanker full of fuel into a group of parked cars in Thailand to the driver in Norway who veered directly into the path of an oncoming HGV.

How junctions can cause driving disasters, the dangers of joining a motorway, and a multi-car crash caused by a group of cars racing on a highway in New York at night time.

In this episode we reveal disasters caused by drivers making high risk manoeuvres, from the man in the USA who attempted to pass a truck via a grass verge and ended up getting his car totalled, to the driver in China who attempted to move his car through a small gap and got it flipped onto its roof.

In this episode we reveal disasters caused by drivers making misjudgements at junctions, from the lorry sent flying in a collision with another big rig in Washington State, USA, to a horrifying head-on smash between two vehicles on a blind bend near Harrogate.

Revealing disasters caused by road rage, from the driver who used his pick-up to ram another vehicle off a road to the van and car veering wildly across a busy carriageway.

We see crashes caused by losing control, from the driver in Thailand who veered across three lanes, to a car in the UK that spun directly into the path of oncoming traffic.

Exploring the dangers of driving oversized loads, such as the truck that tipped over on a New York bridge, and the disasters caused by slow drivers, including the car that got rear ended.

Exploring what happens when emergency service vehicles get into their own emergencies, disasters involving articulated trucks jacknifing, and disasters involving vehicles heading the wrong way down motorways