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Two groups of young men have been killed within a week after driving the wrong way. Critics say the sharing of extreme videos on social media is playing an increasingly central role in young people’s reckless driving.

The two officers in the police car were killed. So were five young men. They all likely died in an attempt to go viral.

The two police officers who were killed in the crash on the A66 motorway were 37 and 38 years old, and had shortly beforehand tried to stop the car that was driving the wrong way. Foto: Owen Humphreys/Ritzau Scanpix
The two police officers who were killed in the crash on the A66 motorway were 37 and 38 years old, and had shortly beforehand tried to stop the car that was driving the wrong way. Foto: Owen Humphreys/Ritzau Scanpix

Their Volkswagen Passat barreled down the A66 motorway outside Middlesbrough in northeast England early Saturday morning.

Against traffic. The wrong way.

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