How reckless drivers are risking lives for likes in TikTok trend… with sick videos STILL being posted after horror crash

TERRIFYING videos of extremely dangerous driving are STILL available on TikTok – as calls grow for a clampdown on the sick trend following a horrifying crash that left two cops and five joyriders dead. Within an hour, The Sun found a slew of disturbing videos on the platform showing drivers clocking speeds of up to 148mph, driving on the wrong side of the motorway and recklessly weaving across lanes. One video shows a driver clocking 148mph when they apparently see a police vehicle Credit: TikTok Another driver asks “You want me to kill someone?” when he’s told he can’t just film himself driving in a straight line Credit: TikTok It comes as the Government ordered the social media giant and other platforms to remove such content after two police officers were killed when five “TikTok joyriders” smashed into their vehicle on Saturday. Cleveland Police said today that four of those killed in the vehicle that which hit the cop car had previous police convictions. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! And they confirmed that nine men and three women aged between 19 and 61, have been arrested on suspicion of several offences, including participating in the activities of an organised crime group. Meanwhile, the so-called trend of posting dangerous content in the hope of gaining views, likes, and online notoriety shows no sign of stopping. Videos depicting incredibly hazardous driving were still being uploaded on to the site this morning, with one user posting a video of a car’s speedometer clocking 125mph. Another video posted yesterday shows a motorcyclist aggressively overtaking a traffic officer and then performing a wheelie in front of them, before other bikers follow. A motorcyclist aggressively overtakes a traffic officer Credit: TikTok The same motorcyclist then performs a wheelie before being flanked by other bikers Credit: TikTok But some of the dangerous content has been available to watch on TikTok for almost two months, viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, and still has not been taken down. In one video, a female passenger encourages a driver to be adventurous with his driving in an apparent bid to make better social media content. Most read in The Sun “You can’t just record going in a straight line, you have to do something”. The male driver responds by saying, “You want me to kill someone?” before she tells him to start “swimming” — an internet term for aggressively weaving across lanes and cutting up traffic. Another user posted a video of a driver being pursued by a police vehicle Credit: TikTok A car is filmed driving the wrong way on a motorway Credit: TikTok Other available videos showing drivers reaching dangerous speeds included morbid captions such as “Until death do us part,” while another joked they could end up “wrapped up”. Another shows a driver filming a pursuing police vehicle in their rear-view mirror alongside the caption: “If she isn’t chasing me like this, then I don’t want it.” One apparent trick used by some TikTok users to dodge having their content removed is to claim footage is AI-generated or taken from the video game Grand Theft Auto, seemingly in an attempt to pass off dangerous real-life stunts as fake. While the motorcyclist performing a wheelie in front of a traffic officer even includes the formal disclaimer: “The actions in this video are performed or supervised by a professional. Do not attempt.” A video showing a driver clocking speeds of over 120mph was still available on TikTok this morning Credit: TikTok A passenger films their vehicle “swimming”, an internet term for weaving between traffic Credit: TikTok Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, this morning Defence Minister Luke Pollard called on social media platforms to act to remove posts showing dangerous driving. He told the broadcaster: “We’ve communicated to those social media platforms that have been hosting content that celebrates this type of dangerous behaviour on our roads to take down that content. “I think we all need to give the police time, but there’s also things we can be doing in the meantime to make sure that the internet is a safer place for everyone, that doesn’t celebrate and load views and therefore financial incentives on people to generate such awful content.” “I want to see social media companies step up. “It’s one of the reasons they’ve argued against some of the regulations, saying they can police themselves. Well this is the perfect opportunity to demonstrate it.” TikTok was contacted for comment. 1 comment1