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title: "Reliving "The Liver Run""
description: "Back to 1987 today to look at one of the most fabulous blue light runs ever"
date: 2025-11-21
url: https://www.drivingmasters.uk/blog/the-liver-run
type: article
author: "David Edmonston"
---

# Reliving "The Liver Run"

Resurfacing on social media today is one of the best 30 minutes of TV broadcast in the 1980s. It features a splendid [Police](https://www.drivingmasters.uk/kb/police-driver-courses) Rover SD1 blatting it down the M11 at 100mph+ trying to deliver a liver in a picnic box!

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNi7uMEGmOs)

The needy recipient was undergoing a transplant and the officers had to make it from Stansted Airport to central London in just over 30 minutes.

They made it with seconds to spare thanks to superb coordination by the Met Police and CIty Police, holding traffic at junctions, using outriders and no doubt giving it levels of concentration that would have left them exhausted.

It's a fun watch and one with a positive ending!

More details on the [UK Emergency website](https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/the-liver-run/).

There's even a tribute video created in Forza Horizon!

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMO-jsv1rZU)