Saved [2016] s01e03 EN SUB WEBRIP [MPup]

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Episode 3 - Two harrowing stories about life threatening situations following car accidents.



In episode three, an 18-year-old girl lies trapped in her overturned car and falls unconscious as it slowly submerges into a murky quagmire, and a motorway journey for a family of four turns into a nightmare when their car ploughs into the central reservation and into the path of oncoming traffic.

Christmas Eve night, St Austell, Cornwall, and care worker Dannie Phillips lies trapped in her overturn car after it veers of the road during heavy floods and ploughs into a tree. She says: ‘The water was rising quickly and I thought, ‘I’ve got to get out, I’ve got to get out of this.’’

Spotting the upturned car, passer-by Mike Tate says: ‘As I approached the car my fears were the worst, I really didn’t know how anybody could’ve survived the impact and I steeled myself really for the worst kind of picture.’

With the murky waters fast approaching her face, Dannie says: ‘When they say your life flashes before you, it really does. I just remember looking up at the moon and thinking, ‘Is this really my time?’…I’m 18, I wanted to have a family, I wanted to get married one day and I thought that’s all going to be taken away from me.’

Off-duty Emergency Care Nurse Lizzie Wheatcroft and husband Lee appear on the scene and with a combined effort prise the driver’s side door open, though they’re unable to see anyone amidst the water and debris.

Scanning the car in the darkness, Lizzie says: ‘My gaze came round and I could see this bright red hair floating and it just shone in the moonlight. I couldn’t see a face or any body, she was deep…I wrapped my hand round all this red hair until I got to her head and I just yanked it as hard as I could and a head came out of the water…but she was blue, I didn’t think she was alive at all. She had, in all effect, drowned.’

Knowing she must act quickly, Lizzie clambers into the car and starts giving Dannie some breaths and tells husband Lee to hit her hard on her chest.

Mercifully Dannie begins breathing and slowly comes round, saved by the actions of Lizzie and Lee and the other passers by.

Reflecting on her actions, Lizzie says: ‘I don’t feel that I did anything more than anybody else would have done. Dannie must be such an absolutely incredibly strong woman to have survived because she must have been under that water for a long time.’

Dannie, who at the time of the accident was on her way to help out at an old people’s home, concludes: ‘I’m forever grateful for what everyone did for me. I suppose what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger…I was meant to survive this accident and I’m meant to go far with my life now.’

In the second story, a family of four are travelling on the M5 in Gloucestershire at night-time when disaster strikes, as dad Darius Khan explains: ‘We were cruising along in the middle lane then we noticed a knocking noise, it was a repetitive banging noise so I started to slow down, but before I knew it a big bang…it just felt completely out of control and I could do nothing.’

The car suffers a tyre blowout and, fishtailing along the carriageway, careers out of control and ploughs into the central reservation

Mum Rebecca says: ‘All I could do was scream…I could just see streams of headlights and I just thought, ‘That’s it we’re going through that central reservation and we were going to hit oncoming traffic at 80 miles-per-hour.’’

With the rear of the car sticking out into the fast lane, and with their two young children strapped in the back, Darius adds: ‘It was a black car, no lights, it was an unlit motorway, I had no doubt we were going to get hit…I was scared that what would happen next would be even scarier.’

Having witnessed the accident from further up the motorway, Martin Langlands and wife Claire pull over into the hard shoulder. Beyond the speeding cars, Martin spots Rebecca on the far side of the carriageway holding her baby, he knows he needs to act quickly: ‘I knew I needed to get across and help her, I could just see that she wasn’t in a position where she could help herself.’

With debris scattered everywhere, and amidst the constant barrage of vehicles, Martin waits for his moment then makes a run for it. On reaching the family, Martin takes charge and navigates Rebecca and Jasmine to safety on the hard shoulder before risking his own life once again to go back and save Darius and son Jacob. Moments later a car ploughs into the back of the stricken car.

Talking about what he did, Martin says: ‘I wouldn’t really class myself as a brave person, I think what I did that day was brave-ish.’

Darius says: ‘I know Martin definitely put his life at risk. It’s hard to say how many people would do that, but I don’t think many would.’