Casualty - The Golden Hour

"The Golden Hour" is an episode of Casualty, broadcast on 27th December 1997.

Synopsis

Holby City Hospital is stretched to the limits when a Christmas motorway pile-up tests all the staff. A woman on slimming tablets causes The crash when blurry vision causes her to go offroad. More cars include two teenagers and an argumentative couple struggling to keep their farm afloat. Later the man dies in CRASH, and his girlfriend is distraught.

Later, Mark, George and Sam are at the scene when the woman's car expolodes just after they get her out. Josh and Penny both witness then an oil tanker block the road by entering the cars sideways causing a fully loaded truck and a Range Rover to go into the back of it. Then a car smashes the back of the Range Rover, but the woman driving is unhurt.

The oil tanker driver rescues a girl who falls into the flames, but unfortunately the man dies of severe burns. The rescued girl happens to be having an affair with Sam's boyfriend. Charlie suggests he and Baz move on and Baz leaves, carrying Louis holding her head high, but she is very upset.