There's some sick people around- taking photos of accident victims to post on the net

[AtticusFinch 10]

this is taken from the newspaper article:

 

MOBILE phone users have been slammed for taking photos of a seriously injured driver as he lay trapped in the wreckage of a bus - and posting crash pictures on the internet.

 

so it looks as though people WERE taking pics of the driver.

 

Or people were taking photos of the bus, such as in the other SF thread, and it's been spun that they were taking them of the driver. It's only a slight distortion and it does make a great story.......

[volvoB10M 10]

Needless to say members of this forum posted links to pictures of the incident,how good does that make you feel?

 

I work alongside both of the drivers involved,and one I know very well the actions of the public are what can only be described as pathetic and it sickens me.

What is worse is that none of them offered to help the trapped driver,again pathetic and twisted individuals.

[troubledjoe 10]

i think it is indicative of general society today, people will take fotos of a trapped and injured man, but will not try to help!

[volvoB10M 10]

Or people were taking photos of the bus, such as in the other SF thread, and it's been spun that they were taking them of the driver. It's only a slight distortion and it does make a great story.......

 

 

Makes no difference what hey photographed,and for you to say its spun to make a great story.

Its far from a great story,are you going to tell the families it made great

reading?????.

[troubledjoe 10]

i think the poster meant a great story from the perspective of the news paper. the papers predominantly report bad news.... as it sells!

[cgksheff 44]

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What is worse is that none of them offered to help the trapped driver,again pathetic and twisted individuals.

 

I may be wrong but I do believe that all the photographs being referred to were being taken after the emergency services were on site and doing what they do best.

[hels1977 10]

i think it is indicative of general society today, people will take fotos of a trapped and injured man, but will not try to help!

 

What exactely were people supposed to do? It took heavy lifting equipment to free him, the average member of the public is going to be no use whatsoever unless they are a first on the scene, a member of the emergency services, trained in first aid or another useful skill in the case of an RTA.

 

Whilst it was not acceptable to take photos (*if* anyone actually did and this isn't a story spun by the local rag), saying that they should have helped is perhaps not really helping either - they'd have probably been a hinderance to the emergency services who needed to get in and help the trapped driver.

 

Of course if people can help or are asked to they should - but bear in mind that most people panic in these scenarios and would have been of little help to those injured or the emergency services.

[clairerob 10]

Does anybody know if the driver is ok? What has happened to him? I need to know. I cant stop thinking of the poor man and how I last saw him. x

[Plain Talker 11]

apparently, he's off the "critical" list, claire, but he was badly injured.

[lucasdigital 10]

I may be wrong but I do believe that all the photographs being referred to were being taken after the emergency services were on site and doing what they do best.

 

The photos on the Flickr site that I posted were taken at about 8:25am during the clear up operation. The injured driver had already been taken away, although a lot of the response team were picking over the cab, and the protective cowl was still in place, so it wasn't possible to be sure what was going in in the bus. A police photographer was busily photographic every little detail, so I didn't I was intruding by taking a few shots behind him.

 

I find the idea of photographing injured people extremely distasteful and would definitely distance myself from those who may have photographed the driver using their phone cameras.

 

I was shocked by the damage to the two buses, and at the had feared that both drivers must have been killed instantly. I posted them to the forum because I didn't think that people who were discussing the accident could have grasped how violent the crash had been. I am very sorry if anyone was upset by the photos, but they only show structural damage to buses, and are no different from those used in the Sheffield Star's article.

[AtticusFinch 10]

Makes no difference what hey photographed,and for you to say its spun to make a great story.

Its far from a great story,are you going to tell the families it made great

reading?????.

 

I meant from a tabloid point of view, and the Star is effectively a tabloid newspaper. Kelvin Mackenzie, infamous former Sun editor was once asked about his smears on the Hillsborough disaster and replied "We're in the entertainment business". There's also a saying in TV news: "If it bleeds, it leads".

 

It is a distasteful mindset but that's unfortunately the media that we have.

 

[ANGELUS 10]

it's funny how everyone wants to view pic's of diana's crash.

why is this so different?

would i do it? NO

would i like it done to me ? NO

do i understand that the public & media crave this sort of stuff? Yes

 

Exactly mate!