Dicing With D-e-a-th: Boy Racers Spark Fury With Ter-rifying Roundabout Stunts Weeks After A66 Cr-a-sh
THIS is the shocking moment thuggish boy racers cause “pure chaos” as they tear around a busy residential roundabout.
Footage shows cars racing at high speed and making dangerous turns as crowds of yobs gather around the road to watch.
Locals are fuming over the rise in boy racers risking lives on the roundaboutCredit: STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY
Yobs stand and watch the boy racers tearing around the roundaboutCredit: STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY
The clips were filmed in Dartford, Kent, where residents say groups of predominantly young men regularly gather to race and speed.
Drivers can be seen hurtling around roundabouts while crowds line the roads and entrances to nearby estates.
Locals say they are being “terrorised” by the late-night meets, with fears someone will be killed.
One mum said the meets had turned Friday and Saturday nights, as well as Sundays, into “hell”.
A drone view of the roundabout in in Dartford, Kent, used by boy racer yobsCredit: STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY
One resident said they are being ‘terrorised’ by the yobsCredit: STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY
She said: “Everyone weekend, Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday are hell.
“There’s organised meet-ups, with terrible sorting. It’s hell.
“They drift around the roundabouts at high speed.
“The spectators block the entrance to the local estates. It’s a nightmare.
“There’s groups of dozens of them. It’s so disruptive.
“Someone will end up getting killed. They are dicing with death.”
Another mum, Sonia, 32, said: “We’re being terrorised. It’s pure chaos.”
The issue has now been raised in Parliament, with Dartford MP Jim Dickson comparing the behaviour to the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two police officers and five teens.
The boy racers have been filming themselves wreaking havoc on the roundaboutCredit: STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY
The roundabout with clear tyre marks on it from where the yobs have been tearing aroundCredit: STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY
PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, were killed in a horror crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough last month.
The two officers were in a marked armed response vehicle when it was hit head-on by a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way along the road.
Five young men travelling in the Passat also died in the devastating collision on August 22.
They were named as Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Theo Rae, 17, Cole Robert Worthy, 17, Jacob Matusiak, 23, and Makai Saddington, 18.
The tragedy has renewed fears over the dangers posed by reckless driving and illegal racing on Britain’s roads.
In Parliament, Mr Dickson said Dartford residents had experienced “very similar” incidents involving racing and speeding.
He told MPs: “My constituency of Dartford has experienced very similar, deeply antisocial and incredibly dangerous experiences of racing and speeding on our roads.
“Groups of predominantly young men gathering along our roads, watching cars, speeding down those busy roads as content is filmed to be posted on social media.
The scenes on the Dartford roundabout have been likened to the A66 tragedyCredit: STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY
The roundabout sits next to a large residential areaCredit: STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY
“This activity is clearly dangerous for other road users, really disruptive for local residents.
“Would the Home Secretary agree with me that we must do absolutely everything we can to tackle this lawlessness.”
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood thanked the MP for bringing the issue to her attention.
The Dartford footage comes amid a series of devastating road tragedies involving dangerous driving.
Just days before the A66 crash, five teenagers were killed in a separate wrong-way motorway smash in Ireland.
The teenagers were travelling in a stolen BMW the wrong way along the M9 in County Kildare after police tried to stop them.
The BMW then smashed into a Hyundai carrying innocent members of a family.
Three sisters and a seven-year-old boy were seriously injured in the devastating collision.
Now Dartford residents fear it is only a matter of time before reckless driving at the late-night meets ends in another tragedy.
