The BEST episodes of Traffic Cops season 8
Every episode of Traffic Cops season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Traffic Cops season 8!
Documentary series following the traffic police as they enforce the law on some of Britain's busiest and most dangerous roads. In the fight against crime the latest weapon the cops have are headcams, tiny cameras which record everything Yorkshire's Regional Roads Crime Team see and allow officers to gather evidence as they work.
#1 - Close Encounters
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2010
Being a traffic cop often calls for patience and a sense of humour. On a dark and foggy night, crime-fighting duo 'Buzz' Lightfield and Darryl Hanks are on a special mission hunting for criminals in the remote countryside on the border between England and Wales. After some amusing close encounters, they finally catch sight of their prey.
#2 - A Nose for Trouble
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/20/2010
When a man driving a large 4x4 is spotted on his mobile phone by the traffic cops, he refuses to pull over and instead leads them on a hair-raising pursuit through the backstreets of Swansea that ends in a nightmare. It is a case of road rage unlike any other, during which the pursuing patrol car is crushed and its driver lucky to escape with his life.
#3 - Lost and Found
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/8/2010
The traffic police in Sussex have an abundance of new technology at their fingertips but when a van is stolen from right outside its owner's house, the cops have to draw on all their old fashioned driving skills. Plus, while two ladies lost in a 'pea souper' in Pease Pottage call the cops for help, a suspicious object has been found in Horsham High Street, which could be a threat to national security.
#4 - Crossing the Line
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/23/2010
Battle lines have been drawn up again in Hastings; Sussex's traffic cops are hot on the trail of one of Britain's youngest ever car criminals as he leads them on a chase around town, and they're met with hostility when they clamp down on motorists who think they are above the law.
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#5 - Wheels of Fortune
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/7/2010
The traffic cops unveil a secret weapon in their fight against dangerous bikers intent on riding their luck on Sussex's open roads - an undercover motorbike equipped with video cameras and ridden by the police's own 'Stig'.
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#6 - Cat and Mouse
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/13/2010
A dangerous police chase through the streets of Swansea in the middle of the afternoon ends in carnage; to the surprise of the traffic cops the driver pulled out of the wreckage of the crashed stolen car is a woman. Meanwhile, a game of cat and mouse ensues in the Welsh valleys, with PC Stanley Baxter having to break down community barriers - and break down doors - in search of his elusive prey.
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#7 - Moment of Madness
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/28/2010
It's a case of only fools and horses for Sussex's traffic cops when a motorist crashes into a rare American 'muscle' car and runs off. In another moment of madness, a fire in a field gets set in a pattern of a swastika. Meanwhile, a lorry load of thoroughbreds is stuck on the highway.
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#8 - Age Old Problem
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/20/2010
Traffic police in Sussex have to catch a lorry driver whose dangerous driving has put people's lives at risk on a railway crossing. They are also called to deal with elderly drivers whose standard of driving has left them with the prospect of having their licences taken away, and they encounter a well-known celebrity with a dodgy number plate.
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#9 - Prying Eyes
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/8/2010
The traffic cops in Cardiff get a little help from snoopers trying to call time on a suspected drink-driver, but it's the Rolling Stone lookalike motorist who gets the last laugh. Elsewhere in South Wales there are prying eyes of a different kind, CCTV cameras, which see lawbreakers at work.