54-year-old ‘boy racer’ ploughs into crowd killing two teens

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Footage shows the moment 54-year-old ‘boy racer’ Dhiya Al-Maamoury ploughed into a crowd of people at an illegal street racing event - killing two teenagers, 16 and 19.

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00:30On the evening of Sunday the 20th of November 2022, the event of an illegal car meet would

00:36change the lives of four families forever.

00:39On that evening, hundreds of people had gathered on Albury Road in Albury to participate and

00:44watch the actions of people and the cars at that car meet.

00:48Four young adults, just beginning their lives, were stood on the pavement at that event.

00:55The actions of an adult driving his imported Nissan Skyline and the manner of driving he

01:01displayed in driving dangerously and showing off resulted in a loss of control of that

01:06vehicle and the vehicle leaving the road, mounting the pavement, striking all four of

01:11those young adults.

01:13Liberty Cellist, Ben Caulfield lost their lives.

01:18Their two friends to this day still relive those events as they go on to recover from

01:23their injuries.

01:26All four of them were there at the event but they were pedestrians.

01:31They were on the pavement and they should have been afforded some sort of protection

01:34like all vulnerable road users.

01:37Sadly the actions of one individual at this illegal event has changed the lives of that

01:43family and everyone involved forever.

01:53This case illustrates how dangerous street racing is on the streets of the West Midlands.

02:06Every week we see groups turn up in street race, people have been injured, street furniture

02:11has been damaged, innocent members of the public have been caused fear, people have

02:13been kept up at night because of the noise that they cause during the street race events.

02:18That's why under Operation Hercules, our proactive operation, we're absolutely committed to taking

02:21a zero tolerance approach to tackling those organised in street racing.

02:25Every week we're arresting, we're stinging tyres, we're seizing vehicles and we're revoking

02:29insurance with our insurance partners to make sure we take every opportunity and every angle

02:33to target those taking part in street racing events.

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