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Crash on A66 that killed two police officers and 5 others…

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bookworm1982 · 22/08/2026 18:53

Am I correct that the other victims were 5 lads travelling in one car the wrong way up the motorway? EXACTLY the same as the 5 Irish lads who died a few days ago travelling the wrong way up a motorway too? Surely not twice in a week? Is there some sort of mental social media thing going on, telling kids to drive up the wrong way? Like a dare? Just cannot believe it happened once, let alone twice. Just devastating.

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Fiftyandnotsonifty · 23/08/2026 16:34

kierenthecommunity · 23/08/2026 10:26

Makai Saddington is the one has a one year old child albeit I wouldn’t be astonished if more of this group were ‘fathers’ too. In the loosest interpretation of the word.

I’ve seen a post from two years ago where his mum is displaying a scan picture saying ‘she couldn’t be happier’ and is ‘so proud’ of her 16 year old son who’s got someone pregnant

Shame it didn’t make him grow the fuck up. Why was he not at home looking after his child? Presumably that’s his baby mum’s job 🙄

I just saw that on her Facebook page. Perhaps if she’d paid as much attention to her son as she did herself going by her FB page, things maybe a lot different now.

notyetbranded · 23/08/2026 16:35

I’m aware I’m coming across as overly anxious here but if there is a craze of daring teens to do this, that terrifies me! The thought that people would willing putting others at risk like that is really scary!

Uricon2 · 23/08/2026 16:44

I do think the availability of poorly controlled social media to broadcast their 'exploits' instantly doesn't help and interesting China has banned Tik Tok. We could also live without it (I was very much adult pre Internet and although I really love it in many ways, I can imagine life without aspects of it quite easily)

rumplestiltskin88 · 23/08/2026 16:45

Netcurtainnelly · 23/08/2026 15:35

Dont understand fully. Do they think they wont t die if they drive on the wrong side of the road, or do they know they will but don't care.
Thoughts are with the Police officers loved ones.

This is what I can understand either . Like is it a suicide mission or what ? Do they not understand the chances of dying are close to 100 percent when engaging in this behaviour. I genuinely wonder

KittyTinker · 23/08/2026 16:46

Somethinggg · 23/08/2026 11:44

TBF if the police attend with facial recognition technology it could be quite a fruitful day for them.

Sadly there are no prison places, although in reality the new state of the art prison HMP Millsake is so badly run that no one wants to work there. So has hundreds of cells lying empty.

MangosteenSoda · 23/08/2026 16:49

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I could not disagree with this more. Citizenship, whether through birthright or through naturalisation should be absolute imo.

Any country, particularly countries such as the UK who have high levels of development, should be able to - and have the responsibility to - adequately deal with their own criminals. Once the decision to confer citizenship has been taken, that should be final.

Heathertrott2 · 23/08/2026 16:51

Uricon2 · 23/08/2026 16:44

I do think the availability of poorly controlled social media to broadcast their 'exploits' instantly doesn't help and interesting China has banned Tik Tok. We could also live without it (I was very much adult pre Internet and although I really love it in many ways, I can imagine life without aspects of it quite easily)

The problem is that we as a nation would be jumping up and down if the government proposed a ban. Just look at how people were reacting to the minimum age rules coming in next year. And the amount of people that were outraged by the government alert texts sent the other week. Meanwhile our kids are being exposed to god knows what

Pinkbananaa · 23/08/2026 16:52

The families of the 5 thugs have set up a go fund me and raised 5000 so far completely tone deaf. God knows who on earth is donating

bafta16 · 23/08/2026 16:52

shellyleppard · 22/08/2026 19:09

There was an interesting article in the guardian today about this "craze" with young drivers filming themselves driving at excessive speeds. If they get chased by the police even better for them and their followers on social media

Insanity.

RapunzelHadExtensions · 23/08/2026 16:55

Watdidusay · 22/08/2026 22:04

Police chase on small road recorded minutes before the crash. There is speculation they were not driving on the wrong side.

Shut up. There is only speculation because of foolish and ignorant Internet detectives like you.

The pursuit was abandoned after these little shits decided to drive down the wrong way of a main road.

"And maybe just remind the few, if ill of us they speak, that we are all that stands between the monsters and the weak."

EmeraldShamrock000 · 23/08/2026 16:55

notyetbranded · 23/08/2026 16:35

I’m aware I’m coming across as overly anxious here but if there is a craze of daring teens to do this, that terrifies me! The thought that people would willing putting others at risk like that is really scary!

You are not overly anxious. This happened in Ireland twice in the days after the 5 lads died. I think it was the next day, the Sunday. One in Cork, one in Dublin. It’s terrifying.

Zedv8 · 23/08/2026 16:56

The world is a better place with this scum gone, RIP to the poor Police Officers.

SweetcornFritter · 23/08/2026 16:56

Pinkbananaa · 23/08/2026 16:52

The families of the 5 thugs have set up a go fund me and raised 5000 so far completely tone deaf. God knows who on earth is donating

This would be the right and decent thing to do if they were planning to give the money raised to the police officers’ families their children killed, I doubt that’s the intention however.

Allseeingallknowing · 23/08/2026 16:57

Instead of rubbing salt in the wound, the parents should put out a statement along the lines of:
We are shocked, devastated and grieving at the loss of our boys, but we would like everybody to know that we are ashamed and sorry for their actions which led to the deaths of the brave police officers who were trying to protect the community. Somehow, I don’t think we’ll see a statement like that.

Allseeingallknowing · 23/08/2026 16:58

Pinkbananaa · 23/08/2026 16:52

The families of the 5 thugs have set up a go fund me and raised 5000 so far completely tone deaf. God knows who on earth is donating

Disgusting- that should be shut down!
On Googling I think it has been set up for the innocent family in the last crash

Pedallleur · 23/08/2026 17:00

Pinkbananaa · 23/08/2026 16:52

The families of the 5 thugs have set up a go fund me and raised 5000 so far completely tone deaf. God knows who on earth is donating

Their own kind of people. No different to Jay Slater or that guy who killed his 6 children some years ago and asked for any spare donation money (6x funerals) to be paid in Argos vouchers

rumplestiltskin88 · 23/08/2026 17:01

Allseeingallknowing · 23/08/2026 16:57

Instead of rubbing salt in the wound, the parents should put out a statement along the lines of:
We are shocked, devastated and grieving at the loss of our boys, but we would like everybody to know that we are ashamed and sorry for their actions which led to the deaths of the brave police officers who were trying to protect the community. Somehow, I don’t think we’ll see a statement like that.

I think they should just keep their mouths shut and say nothing. Thats what id do anyway

Figgygal · 23/08/2026 17:05

Scumbags from scumbag families seemingly
RIP those police officers

HarshbutTrue2 · 23/08/2026 17:07

SwirlyGates · 23/08/2026 15:43

Young men/teenage boys are risk takers. They are the ones who tombstone, they are the ones who run around on roofs, who do wheelies in and out of the traffic on their stupid e-motorbikes, they are the ones who do most of the stupid and/or antisocial stuff.

It's all to do with testosterone and a poorly developed brain. Teenage boys do strange things. Their brains are way behind girls and are not fully developed until in their 20s. Yet, they have men's bodies and high testosterone levels.

Add in the fact that these kids were probably of low intelligence and lacking in education or discipline.

I wouldn't be surprised if drugs were a factor. Did someone mention that Teenage boys use gas cannisters whilst driving?

Pedallleur · 23/08/2026 17:08

Netcurtainnelly · 23/08/2026 15:35

Dont understand fully. Do they think they wont t die if they drive on the wrong side of the road, or do they know they will but don't care.
Thoughts are with the Police officers loved ones.

Live fast die young or it won't happen to them. Regular thing on TikTok. Might be drugs involved. Drivers record themselves at speed. One near me lost control at 120mph on the motorway and killed a pregnant mother. Go on the motorway or main roads at night in some areas and it's crazy

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-66247471

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Pinkbananaa · 23/08/2026 17:12

HarshbutTrue2 · 23/08/2026 17:07

It's all to do with testosterone and a poorly developed brain. Teenage boys do strange things. Their brains are way behind girls and are not fully developed until in their 20s. Yet, they have men's bodies and high testosterone levels.

Add in the fact that these kids were probably of low intelligence and lacking in education or discipline.

I wouldn't be surprised if drugs were a factor. Did someone mention that Teenage boys use gas cannisters whilst driving?

Two of them were 23 years old

Lastchancesaloonsurely · 23/08/2026 17:14

RIP brave police officers
Burn in hell worthless scum

Zedv8 · 23/08/2026 17:19

Such degenerate families should all be sterilised and therefore prevented from producing even more degenerates.

Allseeingallknowing · 23/08/2026 17:21

Pinkbananaa · 23/08/2026 17:12

Two of them were 23 years old

No excuses should be made for them!

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