Well, boys we got ’em. Fair and square. Felony 2013 starring Joel Edgerton & Tom Wilkinson & Jay Courtney & Sarah Roberts & Melissa George et al, director Matthew Saville, rozzers on the lash
Sorry about that, detective. Drive safe, mate. ibid. rozzer to drunk rozzer at wheel
We’re all in it. The whole force, mate. I stuck my neck out from the get-go. ibid. Wilkinson
Don’t say anything. We can live with this. ibid.
I’ve had an accident, I’m injured, and I need some compensation. Ken Loach, Cathy Come Home: The Wednesday Play, story Jeremy Sandford ***** Reg to boss, BBC 1966
The police and I don't think you husband is dead. We carefully staged a fake accident to make it look as if he had been killed. Smokescreen 1964 starring Peter Vaughan & John Carson & Yvonne Romain & Gerald Flood & Glynn Edwards & John Glyn-Jones & Sam Kydd & Derek Guyler & Penny Morrell & David Gregory Jill Curzon & Barbara Hicks & Edward Ogden & Tim Gill et al, director Jim O'Connolly, boss to Roper
It began with two brothers ... On December 7th the Morenos were going about their daily routine. Their job as high-rise window washers was not without its dangers. Their day started cleaning the glass on an Upper East Side apartment building more than a hundred and twenty metres up ... From forty-seven storeys up the platform plummeted for nearly six seconds before it crashed on to the pavement ... Although one of the brothers had died the other was somehow miraculously breathing. Weird or What? s1e1: Strange Survival, Discovery 2010
‘There’s been an accident,’ they said,
‘Your servant’s cut in half, he’s dead!’
‘Indeed!’ said Mr Jones, ‘and please,
Send me the half that’s got my keys.’ Harry Graham, Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes, 1899
One of the results of all the frenzied hurrying was that every now and then there was an accident: somebody got hurt: and it was strange that accidents were not more frequent, considering the risks that were taken. When they happened to be working on ladders in busy streets they were not often allowed to have anyone to stand on foot … Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
‘Because she called and then she couldn’t talk any more and she’s got five kids in the car.’ There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane, 911 call, 2011
On Sunday July 26th 2009 Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway for almost two miles, crashing and killing eight people – herself, her daughter, three nieces, and all three people in the oncoming vehicle. ibid. caption
‘The toxicology from that autopsy shows that Diane Schular had a blood alcohol content 0.19% … a high level of THC’ … ‘approximately ten drinks are in her at this time.’ ibid. rozzers’ press conference
‘Through this [McDonald’s] video we saw no obvious sign of intoxication.’ ibid. rozzer
Durham police are this morning investigating the death of a prominent city resident. The officers were called early this morning to the home of Nortel executive Kathleen Peterson, who was dead in her Forest Hill mansion after apparently falling down the stairs. Storyville: Death on the Staircase aka The Staircase I-VIII, news, BBC 2005
What caused the lacerations of her head? ibid. defence
Every aspect of Mike Peterson’s life is a lie. ibid. Jim Hardin
The murder case against Michael Peterson doesn’t just involve his wife any more, it involves a friend who died eighteen years ago. Just like Kathleen Peterson, [Elizabeth] Ratliff was found dead at the bottom of a staircase. ibid. television news
The rest of the evidence I think is pretty minimal. ibid. defence
This has become a show and it has got its own momentum. ibid. defendant
‘On the head there was seven areas of lacerations.’ ibid. expert on stand
Guilty of first-degree murder. ibid.
Ndola, Rhodesia September 18 1961: This could either be the world’s biggest murder mystery or the world’s most idiotic conspiracy theory. If the latter is the case, I am very sorry. Storyville: Murder in the Bush: Cold Case Hammarskjold, opening scene, BBC 2019
The remains of the secretary-general’s plane were sighted form the air. ibid. dude addresses general assembly
We want to find out if Hammarskjold was the victim of a conspiracy. ibid.
17th September 1961: Dag Hammarskjold, the secretary general of the United Nations, boards a plane in the capital of the Congo … Around midnight he will be killed in a plane crash. ibid.
Katanga was basically the property of a giant Belgian corporation called Union Miniere – a mining corporation … It’s a disaster for the UN. ibid.
Black people were not taken seriously as witnesses … They talk about another plane in the air which is shooting at Dag Hammarskjold’s plane. ibid.
The documents allegedly comes from a shadowy private paramilitary intelligence organisation known as the South African Maritime Research Institute: and they are the manuscript for killing Dag Hammarskjold. ibid.
Among the conspirators, British Intelligence is mentioned as well as the American Intelligence Service, the CIA. ibid.
‘The code name for the operation to kill Dag Hammarskjold was Operation Celeste.’ ibid. transcriber
This is in fact a picture of the person who basically killed Dag Hammarskjold … But did van Rissseghem [mercenary pilot] feel any kind of remorse? … During the War he worked for the Royal Air Force specialising in night time operations. And his codename was the Lone Ranger. ibid.
‘There was a unit from SAIMR [South African Institute for Maritime Research]. One of the things was that we went into African countries. Through inoculation. Yeah, through vaccines. Pretending to inoculate people, and that type of thing. Yeah, to eradicate black people. You must understand, the concept was that AIDS was a killer. It was incurable at that point in time … It was the quick non-militaristic approach to eliminate black people.’ ibid. Alexander Jones, SAIMR mercenary
‘Our main orders came from the British government … The CIA was involved.’ ibid.
1907: The most deadly mine disaster in US history occurred when an explosion killed 361 men and boys in a West Virginia coal mine. Plutocracy I: Political Repression in the USA, 2015
Accidents in American mines were double that of Germany, three times more than England. ibid.
American industry had the highest job accident rate of any country in the industrialised world. Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever, 2016
This is Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts … near by is the island of Chappaquiddick … 25 years ago it was the setting for a bizarre and tragic accident that was to have long-term repercussions on the presidency of the United States … In the early hours of the morning of 19th July 1969 a black Oldsmobile skidded and crashed off the side of a narrow bridge at the end of a dirt road crossing a tidal pond. The car ended up upside down submerged in a fast-flowing current beneath the bridge. The car was registered to the senator for Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy. The accident wasn’t discovered till the following morning. Inside Story: Chappaquiddick, BBC 1994
The party that the Boiler Room group attended in July 1969 was on the island of Chappaquiddick … a barbecue was to take place that night. ibid.
Almost 10 a.m. that Kennedy appeared at the police station with a close associate to report there had been an accident and he had been the driver. ibid.
Why was he out with a young single woman late at night? Had they been drinking? ibid.
There was no autopsy on the body of Mary Jo Kapechne. ibid.
The first time Kennedy mentioned the second rescue attempt was in the TV speech, a week after the accident. ibid.
A disaster doesn’t just happen in one moment. Or on one day. They are the result of years of missed warnings. Missed or ignored. James Nesbitt: Disasters that Changed Britain I: Paddington Rail Crash, History 2018
The Paddington train crash – one of Britain’s deadliest rail accidents since the war. ibid.
On the morning of October 5th 1999 just outside London’s Paddington station two trains packed with commuters collided head-on. The ferocious impact and deadly fire left over 400 injured and 31 dead. ibid.
Southall crash: 130 people were injured and 7 were killed. ibid.
SN109: the signal was difficult to see in normal conditions; and today had the low autumn sun shining directly upon it. ibid.
SN109 had just had its ninth SPAD. ibid.
A nine-thousand-ton ship with a blind spot over safety … One of the most horrific maritime disasters since The Titanic. James Nesbitt: Disasters that Changed Britain II: Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster
On the night of the 6th March 1987 the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the icy waters of the English channel. 193 died from drowning and hypothermia. And the one thing everybody knows: they forgot to close the doors. But there is another story: one of near misses, ignored warnings, a story of time and money. ibid.
Time was money and all the crew knew it. ibid.