POLICE CHIEFS last night called for sites like YouTube to ban videos of people speeding.
And officers say that if popular online sites won't reculate the matter themselves then they will ask the Government to step in.
Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police Adam Briggs is meeting Ministers in February about the problem. He told the BBC:
“As gratuitous violence and inappropriate sexual scenes are displayed on the web, this kind of recklessness is something else we feel should be banned.
"I think the Government will listen as they’re just as concerned about the number of young people dying on the roads as we are.”
YouTube currently says it won’t ban people from posting videos of themselves speeding on its site, but it will remove certain videos if requested to by the police.
A spokesperson from the website responded to the statement saying: "Footage like people driving fast in cars is commonplace on television, whether in real life programmes or in dramas and films. So this sort of content is not only found on the internet.
"Of course, if there is any illegal activity taking place or if the police think that a video may be evidence of a crime, then we encourage the police to get in touch with us under the laws the government introduced for disclosure of data."
