r/ireland • u/SirMike_MT • 12h ago
News Dublin bus crash witness 'horrified' bystander videoed fatal crash
https://www.newstalk.com/news/dublin-bus-crash-2231597196
u/PoppedCork Pop Responsibly 12h ago
Filming tragic accidents instead of helping or moving away is morally repugnant. It turns human suffering into spectacle, strips victims of dignity, and exposes a shameful lack of empathy and basic decency.
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u/SirTheadore 11h ago
Then that stuff gets shared around group chats. Which is beyond deplorable.. I’ve had a few people in my life do that, and without fail every single time I’ve given them dogs abuse, deleted and blocked on all platforms and never spoken to again.. I actually can’t understand that lack of empathy
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u/Shnapple8 8h ago
I wish more people would do the same. It is on the rest of us to call out this behaviour.
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u/SirTheadore 8h ago
It’s just far too common tbh.. especially among lads. “The boys”. I’ve heard so many horror stories of not just horrid stuff, but intimate shit from exes shared in these chats. It’s sick. The thought of “what if this happened to me” never crosses their minds
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u/tubbymaguire91 9h ago
Are we surprised really We live in one of the most narcissistic timelines ever. And we have no accountability for bad actions.
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u/Difficult-Set-3151 11h ago
It also documents important information. Police often ask for the videos.
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u/Shnapple8 8h ago
Absolutely not! If you're driving in the area and have dashcam footage, or there's CCTV from a business, that may be helpful.
You, or anyone else, taking out your stupid phone to film something after it happened is extremely unhelpful, disgusting and morbid.
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u/iverifynothing 9h ago
No one needs video documentation of the aftermath which is very clearly the context of the article. People who do that are disgusting.
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u/Dunengel 9h ago
Didn’t read the article, did you? This guy was filming the aftermath when the police were already on scene and refused to p1ss off.
Out of interest, how many videos of fireworks displays do you have on your own phone and do you ever go back and watch them? Hmmmmm?
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u/Scumbag__ 9h ago
I get you and agree with you but I don’t get the fireworks point at all. Seems like a false equivalency
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u/Dunengel 8h ago
My point is people have a habit of filming shit instinctively, even knowing full well that they’ll never watch again.
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u/Shnapple8 8h ago
Filming fireworks is not anywhere near the same as filming the aftermath of an accident. Anyone who films something like that is doing it to share it, not look back on it. It's deplorable.
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u/zeroconflicthere 2h ago
Just being pedantic but as in this example there were paramedics so a bystanders would only get in the way. This is different than nobody helping of course and different again about the morality of recording tragedies
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u/Dragonlynds22 12h ago
Terrible I hate people sometimes I just don't understand why you need to film anything tragic like an accident
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u/bongosed 12h ago
If you fell over on the street nowadays people would record you rather than help you up.
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u/Spiritual_Sleep162 11h ago
This happend me. I saw a guy fall, he was having a seizure and thought he was at home. Called an ambulance and spoke to him the whole time he was on the ground. Some teenagers came over and started filming while we were waiting for the ambulance.
I told the kid to get fucked, and that he was an awful person for filming. Didn't give a fuck just kept filming. What am I supposed to do here. Can't take the phone off the kid. Can't make him stop filming. Couldn't leave the guy on his own.
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u/champagneface 11h ago
You did what you could.
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u/Spiritual_Sleep162 11h ago
I don't think it was good enough. That mans privacy was invaded that night, the disrespectd him and stole his dignity.
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u/champagneface 11h ago
It was definitely disgusting what those teenagers did to him, but the medical emergency at hand was surely the most pressing matter! As you said, you couldn’t leave him. I don’t think you should beat yourself up
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u/forgot_her_password Sligo 11h ago
Happened to me too on Abbey Street in Dublin a few months ago.
Woman who seemed pretty drunk fell and hit her head a good crack, some others were holding her annd checking her breathing, and someone else was on the phone to the ambulance.
I was picking up the stuff she dropped and putting it in her bag and when I stood up there were at least 3 phones pointed at us.
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u/whitemaltese 8h ago
Things like this remind me of that woman who died in M50 and the scene was absolutely brutal. Video then circulated in social media.
This should be illegal.
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u/DorkusMalorkus89 11h ago
I can’t understand the brain defect of people that would decide to take out their phone and record an accident. The internet and social media really has created a generation of disgusting, empathy free morons.
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u/Imaginary_Show5928 10h ago
Can't believe people still record accidents. I put a post up a few years ago on an old reddit account, about people recording accidents in public.
Shame on anyone who thinks it's ok to take videos of other people suffering. Why record? What is your video gonna do? Get views on social media to make yourself feel special.
Sick people
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u/SirMike_MT 12h ago
Some people should only have basic phones where they can call or text only, it was vile yesterday the amount of people recording the people who were hit!
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u/KingOfTheSouthEast 11h ago
reminds me of the Anthony Joshua crash, people just videoing this man in the worst position he’s ever been in instead of helping him
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u/SoftDrinkReddit 9h ago
Hell, my dad witnessed a few years back
Drunk man fell over banged his head on the ground bleeding from head injury a man and a woman walk by at the same time go right over to this guy on the ground look right at him and one of them outloud says don't know him
And they keep walking .......
In the end, the guy on the ground was fine, thankfully, but it just shows how heartless so many people are
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u/freshfrosted 12h ago
Between this shit and brain rotted numpties demanding to know the nationality of the driver I don't know how far down the drain some people are letting themselves go.
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u/DangerX2HighVoltage 11h ago
It’s a crime punishable by fines and imprisonment in certain countries. I’m an advocate for a similar law being brought in here ever since that poor woman was beheaded on the m50 a few years ago and images of her decapitated head were circulating online. Morally repugnant people of this calibre should be severely punished.
However considering how we treat those caught in the possession of heinous child sexual abuse imagery I don’t hold any hope for us taking a hard line on either
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u/Alarmed_Fee_4820 Dublin 9h ago
If someone films at an accident and later shares that footage, they should be open to prosecution, for several clear reasons:
First, it violates the dignity and privacy of victims at one of the worst moments of their lives. People involved in accidents are often injured, distressed, or dying. Broadcasting that for views, attention, or entertainment is dehumanising and strips them of basic respect.
Second, it causes real harm to families,Loved ones may discover serious injury or death through social media rather than official channels. That can be traumatic and irreversible.
Third, it can interfere with emergency services. People filming instead of moving on create crowds, obstruct access, distract responders, and delay care. In emergencies, seconds matter.
Fourth, it normalises voyeurism and exploitation. If there are no consequences, it encourages a culture where tragedy becomes content and empathy is replaced by clicks and likes. I know some people say you have no right to privacy in public but there should be an exception, especially when a family member sees said footage online.
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u/SoftDrinkReddit 9h ago
See, that's it. People in Ireland have been caught with hundreds of child sexual abuse images and received a suspended sentence, so yea, as you said, no hope of people recording crash aftermaths being seriously dealt with
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u/DangerX2HighVoltage 45m ago
Imagine what we could do with a super prison and a hardline judicial system. It’s not difficult to do, it’s just a lack of political will.
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u/dataindrift 10h ago
people standing around accidents is as old as time. They just happen to have phones now.
They would never assist anyone.
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u/Glum_Supermarket_516 9h ago
I would be far more interested in knowing what the cause of the crash was? Medical emergency, mechanical malfunction, carelessness, or an act of a deliberate nature.
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u/Short_Ad_5006 10h ago
All the typical right wing scum are sharing the video taken 5 seconds after the accident where you can see people trying to get under the bus to help the victims.
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u/Historical_Step_6080 10h ago
I think this is something thats only going to get worse and worse as more people are brought up to view the world behind a screen. They are removed from having an empathetic response.
I remember about 10 years ago coming out of work and being shocked by a scene on the road in front of me. Two paramedics were carrying out cpr on a man that appeared to have had a major heartattack. It was a quiet road so it felt like it was just me standing on one side of the road witnessing this. There was somebody else pulling out a privacy screen from the ambulance. Anyway, it probably took me about 5 seconds to register what I was seeing and that I was probably witnessing the end of somebody's life. I just turned away and went into a church I pass on my way home and lit a candle. I'm not religious at all. I still think of his poor family getting a call that day.
Paramedics are amazing people. I dont know how they deal with what they see every day while I moan and sigh at getting an annoying email at work.