Traffic Cops - Season 13

Derbyshire officers deal with young and dangerous motorists, pursuing a 23-year-old wanted driver who is racing through busy streets at more than 90 miles an hour. While the officers follow at a safe distance, the suspect hurtles into traffic, causing a devastating four-car pile-up. Near Chesterfield, police race to a horrific crash, in which an 18-year-old's car has smashed head-on into a tree.

Officers are on the lookout for a suspected cloned car, a vehicle disguised as another by copying its number plate, as they believe it is being used to commit crime. When it's spotted, four suspects make a run for it, and one is recognised as someone who rammed a police car weeks before. On the M1, officers tail a car linked to a known repeat offender and as several units pull over the car, the driver suddenly jumps into the back seat. Searching the vehicle, the cops make a worrying discovery.

An insight into the working life of officers patrolling the nation's roads, using modern technology and old-fashioned methods to bring criminals to justice.

In the north of Derbyshire, a suspected cloned car races through the countryside, weaving through traffic, dodging Stinger traps and mounting the pavement. Elsewhere, a driver does doughnuts right in front of an oncoming officer, leading him on a chase through a country park. Also, another suspected stolen vehicle makes off from one of the team, dragging them into yet another pursuit.

As police pursue a car suspected of carrying drugs across county lines, it smashes into a parked car. Inside, they find two young men, but no drugs, With the car mysteriously slowing down before the crash, officers suspect the men threw the drugs out the window. A routine speed check leads to an arrest, when officers pull over a man suspected of going over the speed limit and smell cannabis.

On the M1, police receive reports of a lorry drifting across busy lanes. As officers get on its tail, the 40-ton vehicle swerves out of control, almost smashing into a queue of traffic on a slip road. A HGV mysteriously loses control on a dual carriageway and veers off the road, crashing head-first into a ditch. On the M1, a lorry pile-up brings officers racing to the scene.

In the Derbyshire Peaks, police pursue a dangerous driver who takes off at speed when they catch up with him, hitting 80 miles an hour and clashing with other cars along the way. In the centre of Derby, police spot two cars racing and after a high-speed chase through the town centre, they're forced to use two stingers to bring the young drivers to a stop.

Officers find an injured biker who says he's been knocked off his bike by a drink driver. When the police track the suspect to an address nearby, the man becomes aggressive, making threats. Officers spot a car with no lights on performing a dangerous overtake on a taxi, and when they breathalyse the young woman driving, the cause of her carelessness becomes clear.