Name: Police Intercept Kidnapping By Accident | Motorway Cops | Blue Light
Uploaded: 2025-03-02T11:54:23.000Z
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I don't think we had any sort of anticipation of the gravity of what had actually happened.

I'm going to cuff you while we search you, all right?

If there's no problem, we'll take him off again.  Mix what tools?

Look what's in it then, look what's in it.

We knew there were multiple people inside it.

Didn't know what sort of threat we were looking at.

I mean, the priority in something like that is to be very assertive and get control of everybody very, very quickly. 5-1, have you got a divisional unit, please?

Have you got anything on you you shouldn't have?

Anything that's going to hurt you or hurt me, right?

First of all, that's fighting us and it's similar.

The cops don't yet know what's been going on, but as they separate the men, the driver is left alone in Lindsay's car.

And while their backs are turned, he answers a call.

Outside, Andy's talking to the man covered in blood, trying to find out what's happened.

I had the perception that they've had an argument and they've taken a quick chase to try and just avoid us.

You keep an open mind, anything can happen and quite often does.

Well, I'd seen the car before they'd seen me.

I put my tool bag in someone's garden and I asked the rank police and then literally two minutes ago, well, five minutes ago, they started beating me up.

And one of them took the spanner thing out of my back of my toolbox and I was...

The basing spanner, started whacking me with the spanner.

One of them started biting me, one of them started pulling my balls.

And obviously, when he was whacking me with that basing spanner, I was saying, I'll just get in the car, I'll just get in the car.

So, when you say someone whacking you, who were you on about?

The driver, well, punching me in the face.

The report of men fighting in a street is turning out to be just half the story.

Until the cops find out what's happened, they have to rely on witness accounts to help build a picture.

Just in all the confusion and all the different things that were going on the lock, we had a further call from somebody stating their mail's getting bundled into a silver Audi.

I've only seen three of them, they just ended up throwing me in the car.

While I've been in the car there, this one on that side, he's had my basing spanner saying, if you move, I'm going to hit you with it.

It went very quickly, in a short space of time, from being a suspect in a vehicle making off to being the victim of a serious crime. 120, thank you.

The sound of it, they're saying it's been bundled into care.

It looks like the cops arrived just at the right moment.

In the seven years that I've been a roads policing officer, I've certainly never come across that gravity of kidnapping, or any kidnapping.

Really, I'm glad we were there at the time, because if we'd have taken a wrong turn, we just wouldn't have been behind the vehicle at all, and they'd have got away and done whatever they intended to do.

While the cops continue to unravel exactly what's happened in Bradford.

Back on the A1, south of Pontefract, PC's Debbie Collinson and Matt Hemingway are racing to clear the car and three vans off the dual carriageway.

More than 6,000 vehicles use this stretch of road every hour, and the blockage is threatening to cause gridlock as far as Doncaster, eight miles away.

Not only is that road blocked, people then start coming off at the previous junction and trying to find alternative routes around the accident, which then causes traffic chaos off the network.

Up to 30 vehicles will join the jam, adding two miles to the growing tailback every 15 minutes.

People are late for work, people are late for appointments and job interviews, and people are missing trains, missing planes.

All this happens just from a couple of cars bumping into each other.

Even clearing one lane would make a massive difference, but that's easier said than done.

We're just trying to get the vehicles out of the way so we can get at least one carriageway up and off.

Do you think it's quite a big deal, spinning off and getting off separate from this?

Debbie and Matt are running out of time and are forced to plunder the damaged vehicles for equipment to remove them.

Do you know where your towing line stuff is?

We're just trying to find a hooking point.

The chap whose van it is, the towing line, is in the back, can't get the back doors open.

So we're just trying to secure it best we can through the underneath of the car and then be able to pull it out of the way and then we can move the other two vehicles.

As soon as you've established nobody's injured, it's getting everything cleared as quick as you can.

That's why everybody mucks in, tries to get a vehicle out of the way.

We managed to do that fairly quickly, really, from considering that there were five vehicles all sandwiched together and just to open one carriageway up, which means that we can try and clear this tail back now and get people onwards on the journey.

It's been almost 40 minutes since this accident blocked the A1.

No-one's to blame, but it's caused huge disruption.

As soon as the cars in front of you start moving, it's such a relief having been there myself and, you know, you don't know what's happening, nothing's going anywhere, so we do try and get things moved very quickly.