Five teenagers killed after car driven on wrong side of Irish motorway
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Not necessarily the case in this instance, but the sentence "Driving on the wrong side of the motorway for social media likes" absolutely terrifies me.
Are people doing this?
Because yea, that's nuts.
Occasionally we see "old man drives on wrong side of interstate" here in the US. It becomes a big story, but usually ends without a major accident, somehow.
And we often drive like maniacs on the interstate - depending on which one you're on, ya gotta do 80 mph/125kph just to keep from getting run over.
There was a trend among a niche group some time ago of kids on bicycles, scooters and such playing chicken with cars, going so far as to not move out of the way at all.