Fifth Gear's Motorway Pile-up | Fifth Gear Classic

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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[@benpaye9364]

real life beamng

[@egm1843]

The Fiat Uno turned into the Fiat Zero.

[@71brp84]

The damage there is nothing compared to when an artic or coach meets the back of the queue.

[@Mhlikescars]

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.

[@fasdfaerystdfg]

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.

[@titan9259]

The ones on the uno would be liquified.

[@astina7574]

The Uno just disintegrated. Scary.

[@mattt5738]

Moral of the story - get a big Mercedes!

[@soundseeker63]

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.

[@TK4491TK]

One of the best videos on road safety I've seen. Lorries and heavy vehicles however weren't mentioned..

[@iandominics4328]

That Mercedes was so beautiful, but yet that was a car built with such superb quality to have handled that impact so well

[@Ethankeenan02]

Just shows how selfish and carless people are even in those dangeours conditions

[@Showmetheevidence-]

Keep. A. Good. Following. Distance.

[@andrewmckenzie4420]

It wasn’t really all that long ago that all those old cars were still on the road!

[@owenlewis8006]

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.

[@kellingtonlink956]

What I take out of this is.... buy a classic S-Class! Thanks for the video

[@nathankim7664]

Those were nice cars, I really liked that Astra and the Escort. But the S-Class was the best car of them all

[@MrBau007]

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

[@renaultlover1]

These are all classics now.

[@acoolmanboon2333]

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