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Motorway Madness

Date released

27 Mar 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2077A

NoS ID

027801

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Motorway Madness. DESCRIPTION: The pattern of safety to come arrives on the M4. A computerised system of hazard warnings that should bring the lunatic fringe of Motorway maniacs to...

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M4 motorway accident - Roads Minister (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Roads Minister, Christopher Chope on an accident on the M4 (13/03/91): how people driving too fast in fog caused the accident, police claims of motorway madness, and whether the accident could...

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M4 Police chase (1983)

Detectives from Bristol have arrived in Maidenhead to escort a man back to the West Country tonight after an armed bank robbery and a hundred-mile chase along the M4 to Berkshire. A policeman is in hospital...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

27 Mar 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/26

NoS ID

113514

Story no

2 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

Speed can be great - it can also be dangerous, especially when motorway users ignore bad conditions and thunder on a breakneck rates. A computerised control system costing over £200,000 has recently been...

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M4 motorway accident - Possible causes (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report by Mark Phillips on an accident on the M4 motorway (13/03/91) in which 10 people died. Lorry driver Eddie Prenderville, the AA’s Mary Ann(?) Randall(?), Labour’s Transport spokesperson Joan...

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M4 van crash (1986)

Genre

Interview; Speech

Police spokesman Sergeant John Wheeler describes in a statement a crash in which twelve people have been killed on the M4 motorway. He describes what happened to the van to make it overturn, and the other...

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Five die as van tries M4 U-turn (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a female eyewitness (not identified) to a crash on the M4 near Heathrow Airport, London, which left five people dead and seventy-five injured. The accident occurred when a lorry attempted a...

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Five die as van tries M4 U-turn (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with police Inspector David Springle, on a crash on the M4 near Heathrow Airport, London, which left five people dead and seventy-five injured. The accident occurred when a lorry attempted a u-turn...

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Bristol shootout and chase (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on a shootout and car chase involving a hijacked lorry starting from Bristol and carrying on along the M4 motorway. The incident started after a robbery at Lloyds Bank in Bond Street, Bristol....

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M4 accident report (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on an accident on the M4 motorway (13/03/91). Speakers: David Marsh, AA; ambulance service spokesman Eldon McArthur(?); Dick Burgess, Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service; Captain Mark Ryan, Greenham US...

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