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

Seeing all these fifth gear crash tests just makes me think the show is just run by stunt choreographers hiding their budget behind a tv show.

lesson learned: drive a merc

My reaction to the video: Pay attention to your driving and your surroundings all the time. Also, whenever fog comes on the motorway, SLOW DOWN, YOU DONKEYS.

Testing with a metro isn't a great example. It's like being hit by a sheet of paper

Still to the day, this scares me. Yes the Merc was unscathed internally but only until the next lunatic comes barreling through. Then comes a lorry or two.

I see homer in one of the cars doing a face palm

If its truck no drivers of any car would stay alive or have injuries

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Some nice cars trashed there

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Real life beaming N
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going 50+ in fog is suicide

after this episode im paying attention to road signals speed limitation like never before . saw it 2 years ago still remember .

This is another reason why they're going to take driving away from us

the wrangler can probably start but the driver will be dead

Having been a passenger in a car that was at the back of the pack and did indeed get hit. I can tell you this is a terrifying experience. Luckily for us though, it wasn't in fog, just at night and the guy did eventually notice and break, but not in time and hit us doing a good 40 to 50 mph.

I want to see tests like this done with modern cars like Tesla and Volvo so bad, but they would be so expensive lol.

We learnt today that Fiat Uno’s are death traps.

These are all classics now.

Speeds need to be decreased gradually, otherwise, if you have a bunch of traffic doing 70, and you slow the speed down to 40 just a few hundred yards ahead in low visibility conditions, then an accident like this is inevitable.

I don't think toni can fix that uno.

mercedes W126 SEL the best & the strongest car ever made

Then add a semi

I like the homer bobble head

Shame about them Vauxhall Nova's

Burnout crash mode in real life

The person who went to prison as a result of the 1997 pile up was David Fairclough who was 46 at the time. He was acquitted for death by dangerous driving. And his driving license was suspended for 4 years.

Not gonna lie, that old s class was an absolute TANK

Top gear is a British comedy ,fifth gear is the British horror 😆😆

Winter white-out and glare ice one day on the expressway one evening... I'd slowed to 25~30 MPH, hazards on. Suddenly I was overtaken by a large herd of SUVs (this was in America btw, SE corner of Lake Michigan/known bad spot) all plowing along at 70 MPH+ or so. Got a couple of looks from the windows of those 4wd behemoths as they flew by... "lol look at Mr. Slow" was written on their faces as they all but pointed and laughed at the little borrowed Toyota.
Time passed and we (wife and baby son were in the car too) continued on at our happy snail's pace, warm, dry and making steady if glacial progress. Then in the distance... lights. Not on the roadway, but in the median. One of the big 4x4s had spun off the road. A minute or so later there was another, and another, and another and... you get the picture. Most of the nearly dozen or so managed to at least stay on their wheels... a few did not.
Even though I had time to take it all in at my leisurely pace I was mostly focusing on the road, and I couldn't see their faces... but something tells me their expressions had changed. It's a fairly remote stretch of highway, and recovery there is slow and expensive, especially in blizzard conditions.
Eventually I came upon a State Trooper stopped under an underpass near one of the last (first?) wrecks, and pulled over to have a chat... told him what I'd seen spread out behind us all down the median and ditch, and how they'd gotten there. "Roger" he said, "then they're all getting tickets, too" and he called for backup.
We plodded on, eventually broke out of the worst of it to better conditions and made it to our destination... tired, late and hungry but fully intact.

It was on the news the next day... not everyone had survived.

TLDR: Slow down. The life you save might be that of someone you love.

No surprise that the Mercedes-Benz remained pretty much intact. The safety cell really does give occupants a high chance of survival in a front end or rear end crash.

I remember watching this when it was first broadcast and it stuck with me ever since.

Tiff is a amazing driver, abile to drive fast & skilfully.
However even he knows when to drive slow. & that’s why he’s a Good driver.

This was informative. I bought that Mercedes.

I used to drive an Uno when I was a teenager, I always thought that if I had a crash I would have been fucked!

2 years ago damn

Cars are designed for some frontal impact protection but, so it seems, not so much for rear impact.

This is horrifying. Sadly a realistic occurence due to way too many idiots on the roads.

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.

Some of those cars in that demonstration, such as the Metro, the Escort and the Cavalier, would have been worth a lot of money today. Let’s have a moment of silence for the soon-to-be classics that laid down their lives so us motorway drivers can continue to live the rest of ours. Lord, hear our prayer. 🙏

These guys do the experiments FOR US so we don't have to. Just like Brainiac. These sorts of videos always encourage me to drive better. I just wouldn't drive in fog.

The thing is people drive faster and more carelessly the safer they think they are. I think the standard of driving in the last decade has taken a nosedive because people think their car will protect them from everything. Cars might be tougher but the human body is still as squishy and fragile as ever. Your body decelerating that quick still has a good chance of getting you killed.

Can we get an F in the chat for that Fiat Uno

And here we have the REAL reason Fiat deserted the USA for 30 years—Their cars couldn’t pass our Federal crash test requirements. Come on, Great Britain! Stop allowing tin cans like the Fiat Uno on your motorways.

Es increíble con una distracción al conducir , como mirar el celular , se hacer un desastre

At least the fiat driver would be the noble hero in this case cause the uno is the crumble zone