BBC Madness In The Fast Lane full

Madness in the Fast Lane is a BBC documentary first broadcast on BBC One in 2010 that tells one of the most shocking and bizarre true-life stories ever shown on British television.

The film follows the extraordinary events surrounding Swedish identical twin sisters, Sabina and Ursula Eriksson, who in May 2008 were captured on camera running into oncoming traffic on the M6 motorway in England, repeatedly throwing themselves into the path of high-speed vehicles. Both women miraculously survived these dangerous incidents, which were filmed by a BBC crew working on the Motorway Cops series.

Rather than explaining the inexplicable behaviour, the documentary uses a mix of actual footage, reconstructions and interviews to explore what happened before, during and after the motorway incident. After being taken to hospital and briefly held in custody, one of the sisters, Sabina, was subsequently released only to become involved in a fatal stabbing of a local man, Glenn Hollinshead, the next day. The film examines this chilling aftermath and raises questions about mental health, shared psychosis (sometimes referred to as folie à deux), and how authorities handled the case.

At about 48 minutes long, the documentary is intense, unsettling and compelling, presenting a story that many viewers found “stranger than fiction.”