February 7, 2007
Student films fatal head on collision from bus window
The Times Herald Record reports that the day after two Wallkill High School students (NY) died in a head-on collision, someone who filmed the immediate aftermath took it one step further, posting it on YouTube.
"The clip is 27 seconds long, shot through a bus window, almost certainly on a student's cell phone.
"You should seriously be ashamed of yourself," someone wrote on the site.
"Delete it and show respect," wrote freakazoid91. Almost every other word to the video's poster, named skedneck, is a profanity or a threat.
Youtube.com pulled the video down by 3 p.m. yesterday, citing a "terms of use violation." It was back up 30 minutes later, then down again.
... In situations like this, certain passer-by behavior is expected. Phones come out, pictures are snapped, videos filmed. There is always a morbid archivist among the rubberneckers. This crash was no different."
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