An instructional film produced by the ICI Wilton AV Unit for both internal and emergency service use that showcases best practice when dealing with a tanker containing potentially dangerous chemical following an accident on a public highway. A recreation of a real incident is filmed near to ICI Wilton Works on Teesside and the film shows how members of the police, fire and ambulance services work alongside a team from ICI to assess the scene, rescue an injured driver and recover the damaged...

An instructional film produced by the ICI Wilton AV Unit for both internal and emergency service use that showcases best practice when dealing with a tanker containing potentially dangerous chemical following an accident on a public highway. A recreation of a real incident is filmed near to ICI Wilton Works on Teesside and the film shows how members of the police, fire and ambulance services work alongside a team from ICI to assess the scene, rescue an injured driver and recover the damaged vehicle. An ICI tanker travels along a busy dual carriageway before turning of the Newport Bridge and heading into Middlesbrough. From his cab the driver, the film changing to the lorry driving along a county road and making a left turn. A couple kiss and cuddle in the grass beside the road onto which the tanker has turned. The woman gets to her feet rushing into the road causing the tanker to swerve and overturn. She places her hand across her mouth in shock. In his cab the driver is unconscious, chemicals are leaking from the tankers vents and spilling onto the road. Title: Emergency A car turns onto the road on which the tanker has overturned, in the background Trunk Road, behind that the Redcar Steelworks. The driver gets out of his car and rushes over to check on the driver in the tanker cabin. Seeing he is unconscious the man turns and runs back to his car. Back at the junction seen previously the man rushes past a road sign for ‘Low Lane’ towards a nearby phone box. He dials the emergency services and is put through a female operator in an open-plan office who takes his details. The call is transferred to the Police Control Room where an officer takes further details of the accident. Around him other policemen gather information and procedures to follow relating to such accidents. At the desk of another branch of the emergency services sits a man who takes a call from the Police Control Room on a red telephone. He writes critical information down on paper. The call over he pushes a button and at a Teesside Ambulance station two ambulancemen climb into the vehicle and driveaway at speed. Back in the Police Control Room the driver is still on call with an officer, around him other officers assist in the call. The call with the Police Control Room ends and the driver puts down the receiver. In the Fire Service Control Room, a female operator sits at her desk taking details from the Police Control Room. Beside her a second woman who after reading the operators note rushes off to consult emergency procedures and find the quickest route to the accident from a rolodex on a table nearby. Details compiled the woman leaves the room appearing in another doorway where a fireman appears to collect the information. At the Teesside Fire Service station on Park Road South in Middlesbrough, the doors on the engine house are opened and two fire engines leaves at speed. Officers in the Police Control Room work together to gather more information on the accident, an officer dispatches a patrol car which speeds along Trunk Road towards the scene. The police car pulls up some distance from the tanker, two officers get out. A third officer on a motorcycle approaches from the other direction. Again, he come comes to a stop some distance away, gets of his bike, and walk towards the tanker. A small crowd has gathered near to the overturned vehicle, a label on the side of the tanker reads ‘Toluene Petroleum Spirit’. The motorcycle officer walks over and instructs those near to the tanker to move back, the small crowd is escorted away from danger. The two policemen at the car put on hi viz vests taken from the boot of their vehicle. Officers in the Police Control Room take calls with regards the content of the tanker, they also take a call from the officer at the scene. After consulting the Emergency Procedure an officer then contacts the ICI Emergency Control Centre. At the emergency control centre at ICI Wilton a man takes the call writing down details on a pad. Back at the Police Control Room the officers continue to gather and pass on information changing to a man climbing into the cab of an ‘ICI H.O.C. Divisions Wilton Works’ emergency lorry and is driven away. Back on site the two police offices in hi viz vests rush over to the tanker carrying cones and a police sign which they place around the scene of the accident. One of the officer speaks with the driver of car pulled up nearby. A second police car arrives on the scene and an officer gets out walking over to the other car to help with the incident. A third car pulls up and a ‘police disaster expert’ gets out to take charge of the situation, he walks over speaking with the motorcycle officer. Along Trunk Road three fire engines and an ambulance approaches, a police officer stands at the road junction pointing the drivers towards the accident scene. All four appliances pull up a safe distance from the tanker. Two firemen rolling out hoses, another set up telephone equipment while others put on breathing apparatus. The ambulance pulls up onto a grassed area, again some distance from the tanker. Now prepared, four firemen in breathing equipment walk over to the tanker to check on the driver. They work as a team to extract him from the vehicle taking him over to the waiting ambulance. Petroleum from the tanker flows along the road, two firemen rush over with a sandbags to prevent it from entering nearby drains. Foam is pumped over the tanker which drains onto the road also helping to present the chemical from going into the drains. A policeman helps the two ambulance men to load the driver now on a stretcher into the ambulance. One of the ambulance men is holding a resuscitator to help the driver’s breath. With the patient onboard the ambulance is escorted from the scene by an officer on a motorcycle. A police photographer takes photographs of the scene as details are recorded for later study. The ICI Emergency Unit arrives, and the men inside get out and go over to speak with the police and fire officers in charge. The men discuss the situation pointing at the leak which is coming from the tanker vents before walking around the tanker checking for other leaks. Tape is wrapped around the vents to seal them before the tanker is righted. Air bags are taken from the ICI Emergency Unit are placed around the tanker in readiness to be inflated. One of the engineer’s works the control of air hoses pumping air into the airbags. Slowly and carefully the tanker begins to be righted, police and firemen watch from a distance. Eventually, the tanker is righted and is checked over more thorough by the engineers. The emergency over police and fire services depart the scene leaving ICI engineers to make sure the tanker is road worthy before being drive back to the Wilton Works. All in order the tanker is driven away while the emergency unit is packed up. Ready to depart the lorry is reversed along the road, the camera focusing in on the ICI logo on the side of the vehicle. End title: We are indebted to the Teesside Local Authority and I.C.I. personnel, without who’s help and good humour the making of this film would have been impossible. End credit: Production Crew: Dave Wilson, Malcolm Wood, Maurice Downing, Jim Cheatham, Vic Sparrey End credit: Narrated by Mike Keegan End credit: A Wilton AV Unit ICI Production