Famous YouTuber and streamer Jack Dougherty was banned from the Kick streaming service for life after crashing a car with a passenger on air.
The streamer persuaded the cameraman, who was injured in a $200,000 McLaren 570S crash, to continue filming. The videos of the stream can be found online. They show Doherty driving a McLaren on a highway in the rain. The weather should have made any driver more cautious, but instead, Dougherty is driving at extremely high speeds and constantly using his phone. The car loses traction and control. At this point, a cry of «oh, no, no!» is heard. The car narrowly avoids colliding with several other vehicles before crashing into a guardrail on the right side of the road.
Jack Doherty just crashed his brand new McLaren on stream 😳 https://t.co/WNnKGbmHbD
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) October 5, 2024
The streamer posted a video of him shouting for help from inside the car immediately after the accident. When people help Doherty get out of the accident scene, he asks one of them to hold his camera for him. It seems that the streamer is more concerned about filming than about the safety and health of people.
Dougherty is shown handing the bloody cameraman a phone: «Michael, here. Michael, you have your own movie of this too». Dougherty also posted a video of the two of them in the hospital, where the cameraman was being stitched up.
Jack Doherty posts that he took his cameraman to the hospital pic.twitter.com/7jj9KXRSBp
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) October 5, 2024
After the video was posted online, Doherty was permanently banned from Kick. A spokesperson for the service says that Kick does not condone illegal activity and quickly took steps to ban the author from the platform.
An excerpt from Kick’s policy states the obvious to any normal person: «Prioritize your own safety, the safety of your audience, the public, and anyone else. If someone is in danger or in need of help, turn off the camera and contact your local emergency services immediately».
Shortly after the incident, Doherty posted edited clips of himself not looking at his phone. He also posted an attempted apology: «It’s been 24 hours since the accident and I just want to say how grateful I am that Michael and I are alive. I am so sorry, Michael, for putting you through this. Thank you to all the first responders and everyone who helped us get out of the car. It could have been a lot worse, and it’s a huge lesson».
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