This film documents an emergency service training scenario involving a rail crash at Horbury, Wakefield. The filmmaker chronicles the event as emergency crews arrive on the scene and help the injured, who are played by local volunteers. The scenario pertains to the highest levels of realism, as the injuries of the actors appear very real. The film opens with a shot of a railway line from a raised position. The filmmaker zooms in to show the overturned carriages, before the next shot captures...

This film documents an emergency service training scenario involving a rail crash at Horbury, Wakefield. The filmmaker chronicles the event as emergency crews arrive on the scene and help the injured, who are played by local volunteers. The scenario pertains to the highest levels of realism, as the injuries of the actors appear very real. The film opens with a shot of a railway line from a raised position. The filmmaker zooms in to show the overturned carriages, before the next shot captures the site of the accident from another angle; buildings, streets and a bridge are visible in the background. There are then shots from inside of the wrecked carriages, and a low angle shot shows the trains wheels off the track. Injured passengers, played by local volunteers, are shown trapped amongst the train wreckage. A shot then shows a girl sitting on the ground with ripped jeans and fake blood across her face. The next sequence shows some of the realistic looking injuries: first shown is a man who has severe burns on his face, followed by a woman lying on the track with a gash in her leg, and finally a man who lies on the floor with a severed arm. Wide shots of the simulated wreckage show the injured people moving around the incident site. The filmmaker then gets a close up of some broken glass, before a shot shows police cars roaring past the camera towards the scene. Shots inside one of the overturned carriages show the actors waiting; one woman wears a read turtle neck jumper with fake blood smeared across her mouth, while others move in the background. The next shots shows police constables climbing into the carriage, before more squad cars, motorcycles and fire engines drive past the camera. Smoke can then be seen coming from behind some foliage, and a fire truck parks up and firemen disembark from the vehicle. More emergency service vehicles (especially fire trucks) are shown arriving on the scene, and a police constables stands in the middle of the street directing traffic. Back at the accident site two policemen carry a stretcher past the camera, while in the background officers can be seen talking to some of the injured. A prolonged shot captures the scene from a distance, before officers walk along with several of the injured actors towards a police van. Another shot shows the crash site; a fire engine is parked to the side with a fire hose running along the ground, while officers walk along the track carrying an injured individual on a stretcher. A female constable then takes a statement from several of injured people, including a girl in a grey sweater, who turns to look at the camera. An ambulance is then shown and some of the injured parties are helped away from the site. The filmmaker then gets a close up of a severed arm beneath the carriage. The supposedly dead victims are shown laid out on a canvas mat. Two senior police officers the talk in front of an overturned carriage with rescue workers inside. A policeman with a megaphone then walks away from camera, before another shot shows a doctor, with an orange vest and hard hat, walking past. Injured people are then stretched and put into the back of police vans, and a shot captures an officer talking into a radio. This sequence opens with a view of a police trailer that has a sign the reads 'Incident room', and an officer stands beside it using a portable radio. An officer talks into a microphone, before shots show several brown paper packages grouped together on the ground. A wide shot then captures the trailer on the site, and as the camera pulls out, a crowd can be seen watching from the street above. An officer in an orange vest is captured standing still surveying the scene, before more orders are given by a senior officer using a megaphone. An officer in orange vest directs traffic, and the following shots show the crowd of civilians watching from the street; amongst the crowd are two kids on bikes and a whole row of other people, and one girl holds a dog on a leash. A wide shot then captures the incident site from the crowd's perspective; below are groups of police vans parked on the site, where there is still a lot of activity from the rescue workers. A shot then shows cars driving down a road abreast of the site. More shots show the crash site as the operation begins to wind down, and there are also further shots of the surrounding roads. A close up of a red and white sign placed on the pavement reads 'This entrance strictly for accidents and emergency admissions only', and the camera pulls up to show two squad cars and a motorcycle parked beside it. The filmmaker then captures shots of the busy roads from a moving vehicle and a policeman in an orange vest continues to direct the traffic. There are then a series of expansive views of the crash site virtually deserted, before the final shot shows an officer with a German Sheppard on a leash standing on a track, while a crane moves into position to hoist the wrecked carriage.