Make it possible to report dangerous driving videos from social media

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

For the safety of pedestrians and road users, I want to make a way for people to be able to report dangerous driving that people display on their social media stories, for example people showing off speeding or videoing themselves driving on Snapchat or Instagram.

Mobile phone use whilst driving is 6 points on your license. Drivers who have held a license for less than two years, the license would be revoked under the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995 (Samuals, 1995). Mobile-phone use has a detrimental impact of performance on crucial manoeuvres when driving a vehicle (Hancock et al., 1999; 2003). The likelihood of a car accident is more than four times greater when the driver uses a mobile-phone (Redelmeier & Tibshirani, 1997).

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.

We understand that you for people to report evidence of dangerous driving on social media to the police, but we're not sure what you want the Government to do to achieve this.

The police are able to investigate reports of crimes posted on social media, but the decision about how to investigate any reports will be a matter for the individual police force.

You could start a petition calling on the Government to provide funding for police forces to investigate reports of crime posted on social media.

Timeline

6 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
10 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 10 Mar 2020

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