A66 crash: government tells TikTok to take down joyriding videos after police killed in horror smash

Seven people - including two police officers - died in the horror crash along the A66 on Saturday morning.

THE government has ordered TikTok and other social media platforms to take down "idiotic" daredevil content showing drivers speeding the wrong way down motorways. It comes after two cops were killed in a head-on collision with a VW Passat driven by a "TikTok joyrider" in the early hours of Saturday morning. Tributes fl

Seven people, including two police officers, were killed on the A66 near Middlesborough

Defence minister Luke Pollard said the Government has told TikTok and other social media companies to take down videos of people driving the wrong way down roads as a terrifying new trend emerges

A TikTok video appears to show one of the men who died in the A66 crash that also claimed the lives of two police officers driving recklessly prior to the fatal Teesside collision

A66 crash: Five men who died in police crash identified after driving 'wrong way' down road  GB News

Several police vehicles are seen chasing a car just three minutes before the crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough.