Social media firms should remove dangerous driving videos, minister says

Social media firms should remove dangerous driving videos, minister says On Saturday, PC Tom Clough, aged 38, and PC Matthew Blades, aged 37, were killed when a Volkswagen Passat, which officers had been pursuing moments earlier, struck their marked police vehicle on the A66 near Middlesbrough. All five occupants of the Passat—Saddington, Michael Robert Cahill (23), Jacob Matusiak (23), Theo Rae (17) and Cole Robert Worthy (17)—also died in the crash. A video uploaded to TikTok in March 2025, believed to be associated with Saddington, showed him and four other youths engaged in what appears to be a police pursuit. The clip has since been removed. BBC Verify examined the 94‑second footage, which depicted the car travelling on footpaths and through parkland in Ormesby, Middlesbrough, with Saddington seated in the rear. A second video from the same account, also deleted, portrayed a joyride in which a rider smoked while the speedometer read 100 mph. Later in that same video, a different vehicle is shown engulfed in flames; the occupants of that car cannot be identified.