Nicky Miligan and Ethan Anderson were involved in a car crash in last night’s Emmerdale. Nicky was in a bad way as Ethan left him for dead to avoid punishment for driving over the limit.

But fans were more than a little fed-up after watching the scenes – after all, it marked the third car accident the show has screened in less than a year. They demanded the soap get more original with its storylines.

Emmerdale airs Nicky and Ethan car crash

In the episode aired on Thursday May 9, Nicky was fed-up with the way his dad, Caleb, was treating him. He got drunk in The Hide and persuaded Ethan, who was celebrating getting a top new job as a human rights lawyer, to join him.

Before too long Nicky got a phone call from a panicking Suni, who was hiding in the toilets at a bar in town. He had spotted one of the homophobic men who had attacked them last year and was terrified.

Ethan insisted Nicky was too drunk to drive, so offered to do so instead. Ethan had also been drinking though and when they drove past a police car, was stressed as he knew he was over the limit. The police car went the other way, but a speeding Ethan then crashed. Although we didn’t actually see the accident itself.

Both men were knocked unconscious and it was Ethan who came round first.