Reckless driving

well and ultimately too this carries with that person either the person doing it or the person who's the victim for the rest of their life that doesn't go away like the mind is an amazing thing that it doesn't that all of that is still inside of you even as an adult and so just think about the impact the last thing that i want to talk about really quickly is uh This is one that seems to always be a problem, but we have a lot of calls that we deal with right now.

It's just dangerous driving and speeding.

We always think of like fast and furious, got the nitrous, the neon lights, you know, things like that.

But really like fast driving is a big issue that we're dealing with as a Phoenix Police Department.

Eve Arden stars as Madison High English teacher Connie Brooks, with Gale Gordon as Principal Osgood Conklin, and a guest appearance by Steve Allen as himself.

From CBS, this is Our Miss Brooks: Reckless Driving, Episode 94, originally broadcast May 28th, 1950.

Connie must get away from Madison High for an appearance in traffic court, while keeping the reason for her absence from Principal Conklin.

Written and directed by Al Lewis, and produced by Larry Burns, this was the final broadcast of the 1949-50 season before the summer hiatus.

It's for speeding, going through a red light-

[laughs]

... reckless driving, driving on the sidewalk, and hitting a fruit stand.

[laughs]

We're glad troopers were able to cut their game short.

Thank you to the citizens who who called 911 to report this dangerous driving.

Be smart.

Please do not fall for trends that put your safety at risk.

A speeding hit-and-run driver took his future away in a single instant.

Tariq has seen the toll of dangerous driving from a different perspective.

As a nurse practitioner, he's cared for patients living with chronic pain and lasting injuries after serious crashes.

As a state representative, he's seen that same devastation in the community he represents.

"Sixteen hundred TikTok maniacs," it says.

TikTok has identified one thousand six hundred dangerous driving videos since the horrific crash on the M9.

Since then, not to count all of those that went before it.

And what is TikTok going to do, considering they suck billions of euro out of the advertising market, deprive legitimate news outlets of revenue to pay journalists, and they have apparently no criminal responsibility themselves.

So it, it, it's, you know, we, we wanted to get answers, uh, for, for the people, as I said, particularly after the, the, the crash that took place there recently.

So the person who gave evidence was Zachary Hecht, who is TikTok's Global Head of Policy, Trust, and Safety.

He said, "Content promoting criminal behavior and dangerous activity, the theft of vehicles and dangerous driving, is expressly prohibited in their community guidelines." And he claims TikTok proactively removes harmful content, but no content moderation system is absolutely perfect across any online platform.

So would you accept his assertion that there are limitations here?

That is despite widespread criticism of videos that were posted on that platform glorifying car theft and so-called joyriding.

But what do young people really think of the dangerous driving videos they're watching on TikTok? Henry McKean's been meeting with young male and female rural drivers and those who use the platform.

When you see TikTok videos of people driving down the wrong way on the motorway, what do you think? It's

kind of stupid.

I mean, you have to say that the responsibility for the action of that individual lies with the individual, not necessarily with the TikTok.

And a texter is saying very simple, 10 years mandatory sentence for attempted murder for people driving the wrong way on the motorway.

Yeah, I think we are looking, there's no question that driving the wrong way, dangerous driving, breaking into cars, any form of criminality needs to be addressed by the justice system, 100%.

The concern here is the amplification and the glorification of those acts, tapping into the brains of people who maybe they're never going to do that, but it's going to become normalised.