The Danger Of Driving On Wet Roads | The Motorway: Life In The Fast Lane | Real Responders

[@smc130]

I’m so glad the animal road crews treat pets and other animals with respect and help owners locate the bodies of their deceased animals. This speaks highly of the British people.

[@chrissywales6575]

Me too.

[@CycolacFan]

I never fail to get a smile from seeing the army wearing high vis vests over camouflage gear.

[@GuyChapman]

Royal Irish I think - sterling work by the lads. My son is a REME Captain, his best mate is in the Logis and does bomb disposals. It’s cushy right up until it isn’t.

[@manda322]

To be seen or not to be seen, that's the question

[@annedalton289]

@@manda322when you have army manoeuvres at 2pm and road duty at 6pm 😂😂 “oh what to wear is the question”😂😂😂

[@ronanballantyne6221]

I feel like it must be even more emotional in a way when a dog doesn’t have a chip, because you know there could be a family out there looking and never know what happened because they can’t be located 😢

[@MrMaster2262]

🐎💨 Suicidal Horses... I've heard it all now! Horse: i have had enough of all this horsing around! 🤣💦

[@annedalton289]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@RoonJazz]

This is a really interesting and well made series. I have got a great deal of respect for the teams that deal with these (mostly thankless and dangerous) jobs. Top stuff.

[@communistjesus]

Ruth-Elizabeth Page !!!!!BLAH!!!!!

[@macbitz]

The sandwich sketch was hilarious! "Probably got a dead badger in mine!" 😂

[@rosemarydudley9954]

I used to do lunch for my ex partner and leave little "love you" notes. I also found some loose, sliced spam with a picture of a lion's head in it and he was a leo sign....

[@ahmadbutt6624]

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[@ahmadbutt6624]

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[@boahneelassmal]

Glad to see Matt Lucas is active on keeping the motorways ice-free 48:00 they should get post10 hired...

[@darenholzinger4587]

I would be putting more sand than salt on the roads, hey, I’m Canadian, we know how to drive on snow, and the sand is easier on the cement and iron

[@SomeYouTubeGuy]

I was wondering about that. Surely with time and technology they must be able to come up with another solution instead of using salt.

[@keiraallen8353]

They use a mix of salt and sand I live in England and we use a mix

[@kaidanariko]

Keira Allen yes but why bother with the salt? We (as Canadians)use salt only on sidewalks. Or private roads. The only other example is roads that are free of metal. Everything else gets sand and only sand. And we just install heated roads. Same energy as the voltage to protect the steel will melt the ice. It’s inefficient.

[@keiraallen8353]

kaidanariko I think it’s just cheaper in the uk i don’t really know but I’m guessing it’s cheaper to get large quantities

[@carolperry7695]

@@SomeKZbinGuy beat root brine is used in maryland roads

[@99hammy99]

A storm doesn’t cause a car to flip, people not driving to the conditions whilst in a storm is what causes a car to flip 🙄

[@Purplefishish]

That comment about suicidal horses was priceless

[@patsilk9248]

These programmes are a real eye opener. So much happens that you don’t think about when you’re driving on the motorways.

[@will16320]

That gritter was 100% on the shitter when he took that call

[@angelaparker4110]

That’s why Manitoba uses sand: all that damage is alleviated. The heaving from the ground freezing two feet deep does a great job of destroying our roads on its own.

[@annedalton289]

It’s sand and salt !!! The salt melts the snow the sand gives the grip to the surfaces

[@tabpol95]

53:45 "I have 4 children, I know how to boss" XD

[@terryleeschiller8515]

Try 11 Children. 5 Girls & 6 Boys !!

[@alexday5892]

Lee n Wayne. Great guys ! 👍🏻 Our boys in Green (army) Always dependable and hero’s. Get stuck in to whatever needs to be done. Well done boys

[@tiffymcconkey]

Bless all the road workers that keep the motorways moving

[@toddmiller5656]

Are those guys picking up rubbish on the motorway allowed to keep any cash they find or do they have to turn it in?

[@charlieminaj2]

Finders keepers law

[@charlieminaj2]

Phoebe picking up rubbish that shouldn’t even be on the floor in the first place doesn’t pay enough🤭 These people are more essential than footballers but society doesn’t look from it from that angle? People in society nowadays think celebrities are reality when it really isn’t celebrities couldn’t be further far removed from reality as there Hollywood movies, it’s a joke, we need more heros less criminals affiliated with Blm and antifa 🤭🥴

[@Suisfonia]

I think we know the answer to that, more than likely they are required to turn it over but they don't enforce it. When I was working security at the casino, although we had rules requiring us to turn over any cash that we found on the ground or laying around, it wasn't something we enforced (after all, how the bloody heck can you prove that the cash really belonged to someone else?)

[@pjmbidge632000]

A storm doesn't make vehicles flip! Driving beyond the capabilities of the vehicle or the driver causes cars to flip! People forget they can either stop and wait for the storm to stop, or slow down

[@Xanthopteryx]

Come on... Some snow and its havoc and then highway people apologies in TV?! What's wrong with people - PROPER winter tyre and PROPER driving and, well, don't drive at all if you can't handle it!

[@ollylewin]

Sadly the weather is sensationalised here. Every fucking year people go out in it not having a clue how to drive in it. Drives me crazy.

[@h.stephenpaul7810]

As far as snow and ice are concerned, no matter how prepared the roads crews are with sand, salt spreaders and computers, until British drivers use good snow tires and learn how to drive in winter conditions, it will all be for naught.

[@chrisbassett8996]

That poor kid WE are supposed to make the kids confident with your driving, not terrify them.

[@jackharrison6771]

Another good video, thanks. Isn't it funny how other countries [usually Scandinavia; Northern European], handle harsher winters alright, yet the first sign of a bad snow and icing in the UK, things fall apart. And the poor Highways and railways staff get blamed? It is probably nearer the truth, that Governments (since 2010) cut everything to the bone, and remove any slack in the system - so that when we get a real winter, many roads and railways do not have the money to deal with it, and keep things going. It's no good blaming the workers, when pen-pushers (again since 2010), are to blame for all the cuts. Incidents like people trapped in vehicles overnight, (albeit in 2003), or budgets for winter conditions being cut are unforgivable. Ministers control budgets and key decisions, with their minds fixed on climbing the Whitehall pole; whilst the ordinary workers often do their job for 20 -30 yrs or more. Yet who gets the worst stick?

[@SteveFTW5]

4:56 is that a wiper for the camera

[@markwright3161]

Of course. Otherwise highways officers would have to stop every 5 minutes to climb up and wipe it with a tissue. :)

[@sheepiscool]

Yes it is

[@kflett81]

Interesting how the 2 kids in the car seats had loose straps and their mothers belt wasn't on proper;y

[@shahidqadar7062]

4:14 mum was like don’t like this don’t like that

[@Rybo-Senpai]

a thankless job they do, road works is somethin they have to do....but naebody wants the tae do it.....its liike housework.....you gotta hoover the carpet and clean the dishes sometime don't ya ? gotta do the same on the Road

[@sephirahisui]

Ha! where I live, 65mph wind is just a stiff breeze! We don't even get a warning unless it's at least 70 to 100mph....

[@tootSweet66]

The first (and last) that those skateboarders at 2:00 will know about "Smart Motorway" will be when they get fucking painted over a distance of a few hundred yards by an HGV using lane 1 aka the hard shoulder as an authorised lane.

[@Sasquatch_123]

Turned into motorway jam spread

[@oligultonn]

Turned the motorway into an modernist painting.

[@FinnersBinners]

wow this is my favourite documentaries thank you for uploading them

[@racoonsister]

the guy at 32:02, did anyone else think of little Britain when they saw him?

[@jenniferburgett8328]

Spaghetti Junction looks strikingly similar to Malfunction Junction in Birmingham, Alabama

[@Messicrafter]

Namesakes?

[@NHope-md8ds]

I'm from central Alabama and I was thinking the exact same thing!

[@oligultonn]

Now you just need a ton of Bangladeshis and crime.

[@janvafa9959]

Combine weather with drivers that don’t adapt for the weather and you’ve got a recipe for disaster! Stay home if you it’s not required for you to go out!

[@franktuckwell196]

Not knowing what those quoted 130 jobs are?, makes this series fascinating, also the behaviour of perfectly ordinary people who turn into maniacs as soon as they get behind the steering wheels of their vehicles.

[@PhantomStella]

The storm didn't have anything to do with it...people who are driving irresponsibly for the weather is the problem

[@BC24FOX]

I love this video edit. Is nice, educational and yep, i love learning new jokes :D Cheers guys and thank you for keeping the roads clean. Hugs

[@sonjam314]

White Friday?!?!?! I am from States and there is hardly no snow there!!! Even in places like I live the first couple storms bring out the “idiot” drivers that forget how to properly drive from one winter to the next!!!!! Full size trucks act like there is no snow and end up in ditches from driving to fast. We get a lot of ice and it doesn’t make what you’re driving slippery is slippery!!!! A 30 min drive to work for me is often 1-1.5 hours long and it wasn’t surprising to have to get a hotel for the night occasionally because our roads Become impassable usually at least a couple times a year. Now I am disabled and my reflex time is poor so I gave up driving. Since I can’t work and have difficulty walking there is no reason I absolutely need to be driving 🤷🏽‍♀️🥰

[@AMan-nx3gk]

i love how the military are wearing a hiviz jacket over camo

[@thinklikeacriminal2345]

GlowWorm, GlowWorm please don't let me down! GlowWorm, GlowWorm keep me safe and how!

[@gogoprofit]

No need to be camouflage is there though.. That's why they put on the hiviz.

[@elizabethjohnson6848]

All you from Canada and the US, constantly saying you have it much worse than the UK.... Remember, we are a fraction of your size, we drive much faster on much narrower roads... Much more dangerous, coupled with idiots driving too fast for the conditions in bad weather... Have to say they all work hard in some awful conditions and on the whole stay remarkably cheerful... Thank you roadies..

[@annamarielewis7078]

Of the many jobs I’m too impatient for, this is definitely one.💜💜💜

[@strawberrysoymilkshake]

And I reckon I'm too scared for it!!! They are brave getting out on the highways agency when someone could just hit them with a car let alone a truck

[@janvafa9959]

One other comment ... pines/evergreens tend to have shallow roots and combined with wet soil are very likely to fall in high winds!

[@sweetscatlady]

Tell the complainers to move to Florida or Arizona or to California. You aren't forcing them to live in the UK.

[@Nobilangelo]

It's called Great Britain in honour of the great British weather (yes, it's an extremely wet joke). 🤣

[@Da_Rivulet]

"232 miles of road" yah how much is that in km?

[@chrismayer3919]

“People having naughties in cars.” Yeah; where everyone SEES them! 😳🤭😆

[@raymondshepherd1266]

Yes, chivkens are evil, but that dam rooster is satan homself. When i was 3 or 4 i had the rooster take me down and now i still have the scar. The rooster didnt flair well, grandpa grabbed the axe and took it to mom and she canned that evil bird. Thats all i can remember now.

[@katrose5572]

It didn't look like all that much snow.

[@tiny180]

Ok saw one of your uploads love it being full shows and fucked ip forgot to sub to you but did it this time lol thanks for doing this I don't have tv and I really enjoyed shows like this but you only get like 10 min vids you rock keep it up my friend

[@g-forcehack1913]

Yeah I love it same

[@itemushmush]

@Lady Jupiter if you are offended by someones use of the "F word" i dont think the internet is the right place for you!

[@itemushmush]

@Lady Jupiter FUCKING BOOMER

[@charlieminaj2]

Lady Jupiter you fucking goon, you have less of a vocabulary if you don’t swear if you actually do your research😊😊

[@lynnegulbrand2298]

Aww the poor badger. It looked like a fur hat at first.😊

[@lanehogger1532]

10.38 weather guy clearly needs to learn how to hold a steering wheel more safely.

[@DannyB497]

Good show, but needs more adverts

[@FunLovingCriminal_JB]

I've slept in the outside lane of the M6 for 3 hours... Road closures suck 😂😮😢

[@RealCadde]

"People complain about not fixing that roundabout because we need to be prepared to salt the roads" Funny that because i complain about them plowing and salting the roads here. And it's not even that they do it over say fixing a roundabout. It's about them removing all the FUN from the roads.

[@andysaunders3708]

Good with the anti-electrolysis deal. An idle thought - why not coat the concrete with some kind of salt-resistant material?

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Why is there 60 trees growing along a motorway in the first place most counties use tightly planted hedges

[@thewomble465]

wonderful job guys thankyou really enlightening deepest respect to you all

[@iinspiredmantic2301]

That young boy @4:29 isn't properly secured into his car seat, he hasn't got a seat belt/harness over his shoulders.

[@theonetruephil]

Gritter complaining about having his phone on him for £20 an hour, Gimmie that phone!

[@toddmiller5656]

Highways Minister sounds like a real politician: As minister, I will see to it that severe winter weather will not come to Britain this year. Not a single snowflake or hailstone will fall on our motorways. Yeah, right.

[@tandiparent1949]

😀

[@datchess1]

Lol the sandwiches got me though lol lol I love them,seem they work well together nuff respect.one day I will take sandwich for you with cheez and all the food stuff lol!!!

[@FernVert]

The sandwiches comparison - hilarious!

[@johno638]

4.05 there’s likely a teleprompter sitting on their dashboard just out of view of the camera, and it’s telling them to say all of that and judging from their facial expressions and behaviour I’d say that-that’s quite likely the case 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😅

[@benh4544]

Funny how we can have CCTV up and down the motorways yet we can't have any on our streets...

[@silkaverage]

we used to have more cctv per sq mile in the uk than any other country, but recently china overtook us in that respect, but cctv is literally everywhere, you probably won't even notice 70% of them, they claim the average Briton is caught on cctv 70 times a day, more if you're in a city

[@sbegum246]

Yes it is everywhere, yet they still can't catch any criminals. What a joke.

[@n0body550]

Ben Wfc are we china though?

[@kylierae3156]

@Lady Jupiter if you can't handle a swear word you should probably stay off the internet

[@egykilenckilenchet]

WTF? CCTV is on every street

[@mikegore9925]

Why are the gritters not driving round listening to Garry Gritter?? 'Do You Want To Grit Me', 'Hello Hello I'm Gritting Again', 'Im The Leader Of The Gritters', 'Remember I Grit This Way' and 'Grit on'.

[@AttackWithStyle]

Is that guy in the porsche for real ??

[@lasdiLP]

Salt on the roads is very very good. But I dont like small rocks and stones in the salt. Why? Its destorying my windshield because it chips it and my paint!!

[@andriesgeyser5524]

1:41 1990 called. They want their CRT monitor back.

[@ericneilo6870]

This programme was first show on TV in 2015.

[@JackW25]

9:30 - Like the poster(s) UTV!

[@yann6753]

So if I got this right the M5 goes from West Midlands to Mid Westlands, the M8 goes from South Eastlands to East Southlands with an exit to Southumbria via Westumbria. Or you could take the M4 from Eastumbria to Northwest Westlands. Sounds clear enough!

[@butchieblock9118]

You're funny! And on spot!!

[@angelaparker4110]

Chickens? He’s obviously never encountered a Canada goose.

[@lewiscourtney5740]

Snow storm? lol, that's just a dusting

[@hummingbird2254]

LOL, I live in Canada. That was nothing.

[@lewiscourtney5740]

@@hummingbird2254 I live in Minnesota.

[@hummingbird2254]

@@lewiscourtney5740 Yes, you would get a lot of snow there too ! I'm in southwestern Ontario, sandwiched between 2 of the great lakes. We get a lot of lake effect snow and snow squalls. I love it !

[@markwright3161]

Our snow falls as wet slushy crap which turns to ice in a matter of hours. Your dusting gets blown off the road by a couple of fast moving cars, but what we get most commonly is like driving through over soaked paper mache. If you compare it to offroading, Canadian snow is a damp gravel track, UK snow is waterlogged clay.

[@hummingbird2254]

@@markwright3161 We get all different types of snow here, depending on the temperature.

[@ferguson20diesel49]

Them crash barriers can be more dangerous than anything else

[@annedalton289]

How to make ya kids petrified of being on a motorway 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@truckerjoe0572]

Anymore motorway episodes

[@Airlessmean]

watching this then the feburary 2014 for a months rain in 48 hrs..... yea storm babet october 2023 did that and flooded parts of the country ...

[@fluffybunny1104]

0:45 football on the m25

[@fluffybunny1104]

0:41 lay down on the M6

[@rhuntington3]

Exploding Badgers? Goodness!

[@oligultonn]

12:17 they are moaning about spreading a bit of salt? Their job is easy, I work for road maintenance here in north-eastern Iceland and this winter I had to be out ploughing 4 meter tall snowdrifts off the road for about 16 hours.

[@tomwilson5808]

I can see this headquarters from my flats window

[@AlexGreenwoodUkulele]

Dog = emotion crit

[@OriginalMudSlinger]

I remember back in the days old wheelbarrow falling of the backs of a lorrys so much more funny now people fall of them tickles me everytime make sure to grease your axels uk drivers

[@Hb-pb3yo]

There gonna pick the litter up but it’s just gonna go back on the ground in a landfill

[@DyslexicPlays]

30:15 didn't expect that

[@SirBlueWhale]

If you didn't add 11 ad breaks to your video, I might actually watch them.

[@keiraallen8353]

I love the intro

[@annamarielewis7078]

That couple is growing on my nerves. He is an idiot and she is just annoying. God help the kids.

[@tessabiggs2917]

Wait what?? Salt 🧂 how does that work on a road? Sorry I live in hot area.

[@ellapudney5443]

Salty water has a lower freezing point so it has to be colder for it to freeze and be dangerous. Makes it less likely to freeze.

[@marcydonnette1970]

Wouldn't sand work instead of caustic salt? Just curious 🤔

[@amifyUo]

Marcy Donnette they use both depends on what the conditions are

[@vd8642]

Fookin hell peeky blinders season 25 has gone down hill

[@raquelmiralles3777]

God job

[@OliverTurnerMSc]

51:49 - then continues to stand in the spray herself :/

[@idot3331]

Because she's not carrying an expensive camera

[@Speedline1958]

WTF have thy not got seat belts on?

[@duncanmill8977]

Some agency's are exempt from wearing them (police, fire and the like)

[@cupcake5309]

Last time I pee in the bushes...

[@arikrampus6825]

😆 they watching you peepee

[@Janethekiller410]

In America they don't have cameras on the highways lol

[@fin57]

The parents with the 3 kids are so sad

[@Robert-po2il]

22:28 Not a very safe position for a seatbelt.

[@LiliAquinas]

The kids aren't properly buckled, either! Way too loose.

[@lacika8615]

UK prepared for winter 😂😂😂😂

[@LG-jb9zs]

42:40 chickens are aggressive man

[@chrisbassett8996]

very funny i don't think. they are there for the good of the drivers.

[@tandiparent1949]

Do people use chains on their tires in the winter?

[@butchieblock9118]

I have never seen British people using chains on their tyres--I grew up there. There are two things they are not quite familiar with, one is snow and two is sunshine!!! For the most part they'd probably think you're bonkers for suggesting it!! Day in and day out is pretty much the same, dreary with drizzle but the plants and flowers love it! Doesn't slow anyone down, it's just a nice place regardless.

[@kdestiny1994]

You could still see grass on this "white friday" of theirs... they wouldn't survive Canada so little snow can take out an entire highway 😂😂😂

[@tomat6362]

Yep, 17 inches of snow in 6 hours overnight and we still went to school routinely. 1964 St. Paul (N. St. Paul/Maplewood) MN USA

[@gogoprofit]

Snow melts too quick there so it turns to ice, it's the ice that's the problem. If the snow didn't melt so quickly it wouldn't be a problem

[@incognito602]

Thomas Blanchard Excatly! I’m in northern Canada, I remember walking an hour to school after getting 22inches of snowfall because my car’s blockheater froze to the ground.

[@shimpiden]

why were the army boys not wearing hi vis jackets, not olny that they were in camouflage !!!!!