I remember the first time I drove on a motorway, we were 18, it was 1977 and we lived 100miles north of the nearest motorway. I was traveling to Devon with my best friend. His Dad made us read the Highway Code about motorway driving and quizzed us before we set off.

Bloody scary to see motorways with no central crash barriers. When were they introduced.

It was shocking seeing the footage of the pile up, as well as the state of some of the cars in close up.

7:32 "He just sat there... and cremated." A very hard-hitting comment by that chap that was rescuing people in that pileup.

If your car breaks down, pull over onto the hard shoulder! WHAT HARD SHOULDER!!!!!!!!! If it was necessary then, how come we don't need them now???? Motorways are far busier now than they were over fifty years ago! "Smart" motorways are death traps. The "smart" ones have hard shoulders.

Still a lot of sense in most of the statements made regarding car driving and safety.

Im sure this is 1973.

Stop on the inside lane ( realise it’s no longer a hard shoulder) stand on the grass verge and watch a drunk foreign lorry driver plough into your car. Wait for the highway officers who pretend to be police officers. They will close the road for 48 hours and laugh at the endless queues of traffic building up.