The WORST episodes of Traffic Cops

#1 - Dicing With Death

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/25/2008

The Motorway Cops come face-to-face with their worst nightmare as they are called to detain two women who are caught walking on the M6 motorway. As the PCs arrive the women make a run for it, into the path of a 44 tonne lorry. The accident forces a total closure of the M6 leaving motorists stranded in a 15 mile traffic jam and the cops locked in a life or death battle to save the injured women. Further north on the M6, the Motorway Cops are also looking for walkers - illegal immigrants who have been dumped on motorway service areas by people traffickers. The PCs find them walking along the motorway hard shoulder, lost, penniless and confused. They're a danger to themselves and to motorists and, for the Motorway Cops, an unwelcome distraction which takes them from their main job of fighting crime.

#2 - Mad, Bad and Dangerous

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/22/2003

#3 - Seeing Red

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/15/2003

#4 - Bash Cash

Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/12/2012

The traffic cops come across a suspicious accident on an empty motorway slip road

#5 - Risky Business

Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/11/2011

A teenager leaps into a canal in a desperate bid to evade the police

#6 - One Thing Leads To Another

Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/4/2011

A reckless pursuit takes place on the streets of Luton and the car thief ends up attempting to escape by climbing through somebody's window in the middle of the night. Sam and Shona are called out following a bad crash along a country lane just outside of Luton.

#7 - In for a Shock

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/21/2011

In the dead of night, cops disarm a gang member by 'red dotting' him with the laser light from a new weapon in the police's arsenal, the Taser. Introduced to combat potentially dangerous offenders, the Taser is no longer just in the hands of specialist firearms officers; in Bedfordshire, the 50,000-volt stun gun is now standard issue for all the force's traffic cops.

#8 - Tickets, Credits and Consequences

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/14/2011

In a crackdown on motorists breaking the Highway Code, the traffic cops in Bedfordshire have brought in a credit scheme where they get 'points for pulls'. Drivers using mobile phones, not wearing seat belts or having illegal number plates are all on their hit list. The reason for the crackdown is brought sharply into focus when a girl is seriously injured in a three-car pile-up, the disastrous consequence of a woman being on her phone.

#9 - Out of Control

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/2009

#10 - Cheating Death

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/23/2008

Documentary series following the traffic police as they enforce the law on some of Britain's busiest and most dangerous roads. A speeding car has careered off the road and smashed, spectacularly, on to the roof of a house before coming to rest upside down. Its driver may have miraculously cheated death, but he's landed in a heap of trouble with the traffic cops as they suspect it's a case of road rage gone too far.

#11 - The Best Job in the World

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/9/2008

A raw recruit has the night of his life - not only catching a burglar in the act but also chasing down a runaway truck driver - during an action-packed introduction to Humberside's traffic department.

#12 - Fatal Consequences

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/2/2008

The number of criminals using the motorways to travel to commit crime is on the increase and the motorway cops based in Birmingham are ideally placed to stop them travelling up and down the country. PC's Griffiths and Toal are involved in a high-speed chase which takes them into Birmingham city centre, and PC Richard Elliot is called to a lorry park off the M6 where a gang have been disturbed while attempting to steal the load from the back of a lorry. Also, more than 20 motorway cops, a dog team and the West Midlands Police helicopter are involved in an operation to stop a gang involved in a cash-in-transit robbery.

#13 - Non-Stop Trouble

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/2006

Every year there are more than 10,000 vehicle collisions in Hampshire. A large number of the drivers make dangerous efforts to get away from the scene, usually because they have something to hide: being uninsured, unlicensed, drunk or worse. The traffic cops are determined to catch them and stop those who are on the road to destruction.

#14 - Traffic Cops Special

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/18/2008

Torrential rainfall in the Midlands has flooded the motorway network, bringing it to a grinding halt, just when the summer holiday season has begun in earnest. With the tailback of cars, vans and lorries stretching for more than 35 miles, thousands of motorists will be forced to spend a cold and uncomfortable night in their cars unless the motorway cops can get them moving again. As their search and rescue mission gets underway, however, the cops come across some unusual and illegal behaviour.

#15 - Caught Napping

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/23/2008

The traffic cops come across a binge-drinking driver who has the highest level of alcohol that they have ever seen, chase bike-riding youths involved in a smash and grab robbery, and rescuer two young ladies on a 'scooter from hell'.

#16 - Crash Course

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/3/2008

Documentary series about traffic police in Humberside, narrated by Jamie Theakston. The traffic cops come to the rescue of some of man's best friends and get to grips with some of their worst enemies - drunk drivers. Meanwhile, a raw recruit has the night of his life in an action packed introduction to Humberside's traffic department.

#17 - School's Out

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/30/2008

A look at the challenges facing Britain's road police. It's half term and the Humberside traffic cops have their hands full chasing kids, some as young as thirteen, who would normally be in school but instead are taking lessons in how to steal, crash and burn cars.

#18 - Riding Their Luck

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/23/2008

A look at the challenges facing Britain's road police. The heady mix of sunny days and open country roads in the East Riding of Yorkshire means one thing - bikers out to have fun. And for PC Glenn Dennis, a Suzuki-riding officer, it means another - stopping them breaking the law.

#19 - Identity Crisis

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/2/2008

The traffic cops have an identity crisis on their hands as they come across crimes and accidents involving people who aren't who they claim to be, people who are claiming they are the victims of mistaken identity and others with no identification at all.

#20 - Motorway Cops

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2008

Britain's congested motorways are dangerous places; wall to wall traffic and high speed drivers are a deadly combination, and a lapse of judgement can mean the difference between life and death. In Cheshire the motorway cops are dealing with a high speed crash which has left the fast lane blocked to traffic. Meanwhile in Humberside a lorry on fire has left both lanes of the M180 impassable as traffic is brought to a standstill. Jamie Theakston narrates.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - Dead End

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/4/2003

#25 - Under The Gun

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/20/2006