BMW horror crash

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Forensic vehicle examiner PC Phil Hackford of Wiltshire Police's Forensic Collision Investigation Unit talks about a BMW crashed in Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire. Christopher Burden had been drinking and was not wearing a seat belt, and was going at 79mph at the time of the crash. He hit a Toyota carrying a mum and her two children, who were all seriously injured

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00:00I'm PC Phil Hackford, based with the Forensic Collision Investigation Unit at Police Headquarters

00:06Devices. I'm the Forensic Vehicle Examiner for the department. The vehicle you see was involved

00:12in a two-vehicle RTC. The driver, the single occupant of the vehicle, had been drinking.

00:18On that day he'd managed to drive the vehicle for around about one mile from his home address.

00:24The vehicle which he hit had three people involved, two young children and the mother who was driving.

00:30Everybody was seriously injured. The two children were hospitalised, the mother was hospitalised,

00:36and the driver of the BMW received serious injuries. He lost control on a corner, having

00:42attempted an overtake on another car and ended up hitting the oncoming vehicle head-on.

00:49This individual was very lucky, extremely lucky. From my investigation in this vehicle,

00:55I found that the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt. That was quite evident from various inspections of

01:01a carryout. And the terminal speed appears to have frozen on the speedometer at 79 miles an hour.

01:10So from the damage that you see on that vehicle, and you look at the impact and the intrusion into his

01:18area, his occupied area, his survival was quite a miracle.

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