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Madness in the Fast Lane, BBC One

Madness in the Fast Lane, BBC One

Too many questions are left unanswered in this stranger-than-fiction tale

The expression “car crash telly” takes on a whole new meaning.Mentorn Media

Words such as horror, grotesque, shocking and bizarre are fired at us before the title has even appeared on screen: clearly this documentary is set on living down to its sensationalist title. One bleak sunless day in May 2008, Swedish twins Sabina and Ursula Eriksson ran into traffic on the M6. Both miraculously escaped with their lives but then turned on the police officers trying to help them. With a lack of subtlety and restraint typical of this kind of schedule-filler, director Jim Nally shows us the footage of Sabina being thrown off the bonnet of a car at least twice more, slowing it down, freeze-framing it, and then just flashing up fragments of it - hammering home the kind of imagery which will have stuck in the mind of any sensitive viewer anyway.

Words such as horror, grotesque, shocking and bizarre are fired at us before the title has even appeared on screen: clearly this documentary is set on living down to its sensationalist title. One bleak sunless day in May 2008, Swedish twins Sabina and Ursula Eriksson ran into traffic on the M6. Both miraculously escaped with their lives but then turned on the police officers trying to help them. With a lack of subtlety and restraint typical of this kind of schedule-filler, director Jim Nally shows us the footage of Sabina being thrown off the bonnet of a car at least twice more, slowing it down, freeze-framing it, and then just flashing up fragments of it - hammering home the kind of imagery which will have stuck in the mind of any sensitive viewer anyway.

Cracker would have just thrown his arms up in exasperation and gone off to the betting shop

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I think the most telling thing was that the producers apparently thought the most appropriate way to close the film was with 'Where Is My Mind?' by The Pixies playing over the credits. Like it did in Fight Club.

This documentary showed up many of the weaknessness' of our mental health safety net..or lack of such. From the moment the police interviewed the sisters and failed to recognise mental illness to the psychiatrists repeatedly failing to deal with the high risks and danger (quite apparent to any layperson). Sabina should never have gone to prison, nor should she be released from safe custody! Will anyone listen to the family of the victim?

Quite unnerving to say the least watching this documentary and lots of missing information which I think is rather poor on the part of the BBC. However the most scary thing I feel is that not one of services that met these two "oddballs" including police and the judicial authorities managed to get one of them detained under the Mental Health Act! Hope someone is watching the one released from prison next year! I do wonder why the BBC showed this with so many loose ends. What is the other twin up to in America at the moment-hopw she's not fighting with the traffic on the freeways!

The British legal system decides that people who run into motorways, murder, smash their heads with lump hammers and jump of 40ft bridges are not enough of a danger to others or themselves to be sentenced properly. Sabina will probably be out of prison within the next few years so it's a lottery to see which one of us lucky people will be subject to one of her puffs of madness. Our legal system is imploding me thinks.

Definately a case of DUMB and DUMBER then.....It is absolutely mind blowing, that the final conclusion was that the woman was ' a LOW RISK ' and thus sentenced normally.... Just goes to prove then, that no one really cares, it is just paperwork at the end of the day, if the Police had more than 2 brain cells BETWEEN THEM, then maybe they wouldve prevented the needless killing. As always, pay peanuts get monkeys. Nothing new then, but seriously sickening all the same.

Just watched this programme and am not sure if I was more shocked at the twins psychotic behaviour or the legal system's lack of meaningful action in what appeared to be a totally avoidable murder. And I couldn't help but ask myself what Sabina had murdered women or children rather than an apprently single man? What if 100 people had died in a motorway pile-up? Would it still be a "puff of madness" and manslaughter? This just goes to show how stupidly soft we are in dealing with criminals, whether they are mentally unstable or not. Why were the original officers at the scene unable to convince the decision makers that these women were totally psychotic? Why could they not hold the women in custody until video evidence had been assessed? Why simply release the woman onto the streets - why not return her to Ireland with her partner and children? And then after all that happened, allow so-called experts to deem her "cured"? How many others currently serving sentences for murder can claim a "puff of madness"? Crazy! And I don't mean the twins!

This is apparent to those who have only experienced in the supernatural realm. This incident defies any human logic, thus it can only be supernatural. What happened was pure demonic manifestation. The women were never in control, but were posessed. I'm not sure where they open themselves up to this possession. One woman runs into traffic gets hit, and then the sister runs into traffic and gets hit. Satan is real, education will never train people to handle. One the Holy Spirit can teach us how to defet demon possession

A Madness Shared by Two, [which was to be first released on the 28-11-12, though for legal reasons was delayed until now - thw 12-12-12], is not only the true untold story about the lives of Sabina and Ursula Eriksson, alongside the murder of Glenn Hollinshead, based on a critique re-examination of the BBC’s Madness in the Fast Lane documentary that had 7 million viewers [with a conservative estim ate of around a further 15 million people having since watched this film via the internet and on websites such as YouTube],glued to their TV screens watching the twin sisters propelling themselves into the fast lane of the oncoming traffic on the UK’s-M6 motorway, as Ursula manages to throw herself under the wheels of a 40ft articulated lorry travelling at 60mph, that seems to swallow her up and spit her lifeless looking body back out of its rear end. It is also the result of a thorough investigation into what might have really happened on those fateful days that led up to this tragic slaying of an innocent man. We challenge the “Official Storyline” and expose a 'cover-up' and what really occurred just hours before M6 dash, for it is here for the first time we expose the Eriksson sisters were “arrested” under the Mental Health Act, though this vital caught on film evidence was edited out of the original BBC films. This will come as a great surprise to many people who questioned; ‘...how was it possible Sabina could have been released from hospital after only five hours’ following their ‘suicide attempt’ on the M6? We also reveal that the coroner’s report shows that the injuries inflicted on Glenn, was done so by ‘two’ weapons, it’s always been believed “Sabina” used one, and that it’s highly likely there were more than one person who killed him and that Sabina could be totally innocent. Yet this obvious evidence seems to have been brushed under the carpet, or at the very least, it was never challenged. We explain how these twins were very likely embroiled in some kind of major drugs smuggling ring and that they had been under “Obbo” [police observation] prior to the M6 incident and was probably so for quite some period of time. As a result of our findings, legal action is now being sought and brought against the police and other related authoritative bodies by the Hollinshead family. http://www.amadnesssharedbytwo.com

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