{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2011}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | runtime = {{ubl|30 minutes (including commercials)|60 minutes (including commercials; 1 episode)}} | producer = Rachel Antony | company = Greenstone TV | presenter = Damian Walshe-Howling | country = Australia | network = Seven Network | first_aired = {{start date|2008|8|27|df=y}} | last_aired = {{end date|2011|7|25|df=y}} | num_episodes = 21 | related = SCU: Serious Crash Unit }} '''''Crash Investigation Unit''''' is an Australian factual television series on the Seven Network hosted by Damian Walshe-Howling. The series premiered on 27 August 2008.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.greenstonetv.com/programmes/factual-series/serious-crash-unit-scu-series-1-5/ | title=Serious Crash Unit – SCU | publisher= Greenstone TV|date=13 August 2008 | accessdate=13 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=David|last=Knox|title=Car crash telly|url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/08/car-crash-telly.html|publisher=TV Tonight |date=13 August 2008|accessdate=20 August 2008}}</ref>
== About The Show == The series follows the Metropolitan Crash Investigation Unit in Sydney to uncover the causes behind a car crash.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/08/car-crash-telly-2.html|title=Car crash telly |date=13 August 2008|accessdate=5 November 2016|work=TV Tonight|first=David|last=Knox}}</ref> The program is similar to New Zealand's ''SCU: Serious Crash Unit'', which has previously aired on Seven to strong ratings.<ref>[http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/whoweare/archives/2008/03/wthe_who_we_are.html "The Tribal Mind"], ''Sun-Herald'', retrieved 28 April 2008</ref>
On 22 September 2008, Channel Seven confirmed it had commissioned a second series of Crash Investigation Unit.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
== Episodes == {{Series overview | color1 = #449DFB | link1 = #Season 1 (2008) | episodes1 = 9 | start1 = {{Start date|2008|8|27|df=y}} | end1 = {{End date|2008|10|22|df=y}}
| color2 = #444CB9 | link2 = #Season 2 (2010–11) | episodes2 = 12 | start2 = {{Start date|2010|3|3|df=y}} | end2 = {{End date|2011|7|25|df=y}} }}
===Season 1 (2008)=== {{Episode table|overall= |season= |title= |airdate= |background=#449DFB |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Redfern | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|27|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A motorcyclist is killed in a collision at a busy intersection. But when the other vehicle leaves the scene, Crash Investigators must go searching for their suspect. | LineColor = 449DFB }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = Marsden Park | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|9|3|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A grandmother leaves her local bingo hall, but she will never make it home; the lives of a young man and a truck driver are irrevocably changed as a result. | LineColor = 449DFB }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = Kogarah | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|9|10|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A woman sends her car hurtling down a footpath, bowling over a dozen innocent pedestrians. The Crash Investigation Unit sifts through the carnage on a busy Sydney street looking for answers to this nightmarish crash. | LineColor = 449DFB }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Summer Hill | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|9|17|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A young driver is unlikely to survive after a late night crash that kills his passenger. With the help of extraordinary CCTV footage, the CIU explore what could have caused his car to spin out of control. | LineColor = 449DFB }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = M5 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|9|24|df=y}} | ShortSummary = While rush hour commuters fight traffic trying to get home, one man is fighting for his life after a pile-up in Sydney’s M5 tunnel. The C.I.U is under pressure to map the underground scene as quickly as possible to get the road re-opened, but with seven vehicles involved, it’s not easy. | LineColor = 449DFB }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = Fairfield | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|10|1|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A seemingly straightforward crash is not as it seems when a child is severely injured. The Crashies help solve the mystery by replicating the accident at the RTA’s specialist Crash Lab. | LineColor = 449DFB }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = Jennifer Franco | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|10|8|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Jennifer Franco is struck by a taxi in the early hours of 20 February 2007 on Gwawley Parade, Miranda. She sustains critical head and limb injuries, as well as psychological trauma as a result of the crash. | LineColor = 449DFB }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Auburn | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|10|15|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A cyclist has little or no chance against an 11-tonne truck, so when a young father is killed riding near his home, the Crash Unit must piece together events leading up to the tragedy. | LineColor = 449DFB }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Haberfield | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|10|22|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A van inexplicably crosses a median strip into the path of oncoming traffic, with devastating consequences. The C.I.U explore whether it was human or mechanical error that caused the crash. | LineColor = 449DFB }} }}
===Season 2 (2010–11)=== {{Episode table | overall= | season= | title= | airdate= | background=#444CB9 |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Not My Time to Go | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|3|3|df=y}} | ShortSummary = One of Kylie Minogue's old friends dies in a car crash believed to have been caused by a drunk driver | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 11 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = Driving Lesson | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|3|10|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Police investigate the death of a teenager who died in a car crash while out joyriding, with some claiming that texting at the wheel was the reason for the tragedy. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 12 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = Normanhurst | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|3|17|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Police try to find out who was responsible for a crash that resulted in the death of a woman who, having become a grandmother for the first time, was en route to a baby shower. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 13 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Budgewoi (Left for Dead) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|3|24|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Police consider whether a driver fled the scene of a car crash that left his best friend in a serious condition. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 14 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = Kenthurst (On the Verge) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|3|31|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Police become suspicious of a man who tried to assist the passengers of a car that careered off a rural trail. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 15 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = Punchbowl (Light Wait) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|4|7|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Two young drivers blame each other for a collision that occurred on a Saturday night. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 16 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = MT Druitt (Industrial Dispute) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|4|14|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A driver claims to have no memory of being in a car crash that killed his colleague, as he awakes from a coma. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 17 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Richmond Road (B-Double Trouble) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|4|21|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A driver claims to have no memory of being in a car crash that killed his colleague, as he awakes from a coma. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 18 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Spencer (Middle of the Road) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|4|27|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Police try to work out who was to blame for a rural crash in which a motorbike split in two. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 19 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Pymble (Flyover) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|7|11|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Sergeant Peter Jenkins steps in after a five-car pile-up results in a young man's death. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 20 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = Wedderburn (Causeway) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|7|18|df=y}} | ShortSummary = The unit's Grant Holman uses all his professionalism when, following an accident involving two vehicles, the distraught sister of a dead driver disputes the other driver's story. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 21 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = Kurrajong | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|7|25|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Documentary following New South Wales police officers as they try to uncover the cause of fatal incidents. | LineColor = 444CB9 }} }}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080905213828/http://www.yahoo7.com.au/tv Channel Seven official site] *[http://www.greenstonepicturestv.com Greenstone Pictures]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/2013312 TVNZ] *[http://www.kangoo.co.nz Kangoo - animators of CIU's vehicle collisions]
Category:Australian factual television series Category:Seven Network original programming Category:2008 Australian television series debuts Category:Documentary television series about policing Category:Television series by Greenstone TV