Wrong side driving social media stunt

JennyCee

how is it possible for young men this young to be able to afford a car anyway, assuming there is no insurance involved?

I don't think they saved up their pocket money.

My brother works in Higher Education and said students were talking about this TikTok trend/challenge just before the summer. One of the aims is to drive as fast as you can, the wrong way for as long as you can. My heart breaks for the innocent victims and their families.

They aren't all young. Age range from 19 - 61 are involved in this criminal group.

AGAA4

As I posted @ 14.58 these people belonged to an organised crime group. They weren't just young men out having dangerous fun. Another car has been identified ramming properties. The same group involved.
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A menace to society. Those they have arrested today need to be locked up for public safety as well as the safety of the police who seek to restrain them.
They obviously have no morals or conscience. Just lose the key!!

As I posted @ 14.58 these people belonged to an organised crime group. They weren't just young men out having dangerous fun. Another car has been identified ramming properties. The same group involved.
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It's another one to social media. People are saying it's a tragedy that seven were killed. I think it's a devastating tragedy regarding the two police officers who are victims of the stupidity of the other five idiots who were killed for whom I have no sympathy at all

That's in response to mokryna

I think, looking at photographs on the BBC web site and as it appears to pass through built up areas, that section of the A66 is lit.

It is, I've checked on google maps street view.

‘No evidence of recording for Tik Tok’ the police have said.

Margs

Do teenage boys - it's always boys - possess minds? I think not.

We have these groups of teenage morons, one of them (amazingly) passes a driving test and immediately the gang piles into a wreck of a car and set off to go pure crazy.

I'd suggest that those of the male gender not be allowed on the roads until they reach sensible middle age.......but I suppose that would be trampling on their 'yoomin rites, like'

I don’t know but I wouldn’t be surprised if they have even had driving lessons let alone passed a test. The likes of many of these will steal cars and drive them inappropriately and there’s no stopping them.

12 people aged from 19 to 61 have been arrested in relation to the death of the two police officers.
They are believed to be a group participating in crime. BBC news.

From what I heard on a BBC report the fun is to drive at night with no lights. Given that many roads are not lit, the people in the police car had no way of knowing they were going to be hit, until the last moment.

JennyCee

how is it possible for young men this young to be able to afford a car anyway, assuming there is no insurance involved?

In this case it was a stolen car.

In the police statement posted by Avalon it appears that four of the young men who dies had previous convictions (unspecified). This seems to have been a criminal enterprise rather than a response to anything on Tik Tok.

We will never truly know what happened but it is my suspicion that the Passat was deliberately driven at the police car...

Has it been disclosed who was driving?
As well as three teens, two of them were 23 years old.

how is it possible for young men this young to be able to afford a car anyway, assuming there is no insurance involved?

Why on earth is the legal driving age 17? It’s far too young. It should be 18 or even more. And nobody under the age of, say, 21 should be able to carry passengers except perhaps in an emergency situation. And motorway driving should be part of the driving test. Some of our laws are far too lax.

ViceVersa

butterandjam

Bukkie

Sarnia- I can't believe what I am reading, is this horrific statement really true? What senseless behaviour. My heart goes out to all the victims.

Mine goes out to the innocent victims ; the seriously injured .The two dead police officers.

I have absolutely no pity, empathy or regret over the deaths of the little bastards who killed them.

Yes, this - especially as I have two serving police officers in the family.

Yes, absolutely!

Not Tik Tok

Read the latest news.criminal investigations ongoing.

I well as looking out for jumpers yesterday, I am now looking out for idiots coming towards me 🙄
RIP to those two policemen 😞

Momac55

Bukkie

Sarnia- I can't believe what I am reading, is this horrific statement really true? What senseless behaviour. My heart goes out to all the victims.

Mine goes out the police officers and the innocent victims in Ireland not the morons who were driving the wrong way for Tik Tok likes

Exactly.

Videos not taken for Tik Tok say police.

NannyJan53

Tik Tok needs to be banned in the UK immediately!

Agreed

Much much more is coming out. A major police investigation is underway. 2 vehicles were involved with cloned number plates and the police have the second car and 12 people have been arrested for criminal activity.

They are a menace generally and unfortunately they know how to play the system.

Look how many illegal sites have been set up on the first day of a Bank Holiday, giving them enough time to lay down concrete and establish a camp.
They know low slowly the legal wheels grind, so they are ‘home’ for many months before they are moved on.