Snapchat is facing questions over its role in dangerous driving after it emerged that the social media company failed to respond to warnings from a coroner following the crash deaths of two teenagers.
The coroner issued a formal Prevention of Future Deaths report – a legal warning made when an inquest identifies a risk of further deaths unless action is taken – following the deaths of Matilda “Tilly” Seccombe, 16, and Harry Purcell, 17, who were killed in a crash in Warwickshire in April 2023.
At their inquests, held in December 2025, evidence was heard that dangerous driving had been recorded and shared privately on Snapchat.
Snapchat was formally required to respond within 56 days, setting out what action it had taken or proposed to take, together with a timetable for that action.
However, Warwickshire Coroner’s Office confirmed that no response was received. The failure to respond has since been raised with the chief coroner’s officer.
Coventry and Warwickshire acting area coroner Linda Karen Hadfield Lee told The i Paper she had received no information about whether Snapchat could detect or review dangerous-driving content, including material uploaded by minors.
Significantly, she added there was no publicly available information showing whether Snapchat had safeguards capable of “identifying repeated patterns of unsafe conduct among young users.”
She warned that filming and sharing high-risk driving among peers could “normalise, encourage or reinforce risk-taking behaviour”.
A66 crash increases pressure on social media firms
The warning comes after the deaths of seven people when a Volkswagen Passat travelled the wrong way along the A66 near Middlesbrough and collided with a marked police car. The five occupants of the Passat, aged between 17 and 23, and PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, were all killed.
The A66 crash has brought renewed attention to a wider online craze in which young people film reckless driving, police pursuits and other dangerous behaviour to post on social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
There is no evidence that Snapchat was involved in the A66 crash.
Reports have linked one of the young men who died, 18-year-old Makai Saddington, to videos showing dangerous driving and an earlier police pursuit. Cleveland Police has stressed, however, that there is currently no evidence that activities immediately before the fatal crash were filmed for TikTok.
The Government has nevertheless contacted TikTok and other social media platforms over videos appearing to celebrate or promote wrong-way driving, while ministers have demanded that such material be removed.
Snapchat has faced scrutiny over protecting young people
Snapchat is owned by Snap Inc, the US technology company founded by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown.
Snapchat’s safety operation is led at senior level by Jacqueline Beauchere, its global head of platform safety.
Snapchat also has a large Trust and Safety operation responsible for investigating reports and enforcing its rules, which it says took more than 9.6 million enforcement actions, including removing videos and suspending accounts globally in the first half of 2025.
However, the platform has faced repeated scrutiny over child safety. In the UK, Ofcom has required Snapchat to strengthen measures against strangers contacting children and improve age checks, while in March 2026 the European Commission opened a formal investigation into the firm over concerns including whether it was doing enough to prevent grooming, sexual exploitation and children’s exposure to illegal or harmful material.
A Snapchat spokesperson declined to comment on the coroner’s warning but said of last week’s A66 tragedy: “We are deeply saddened by this tragedy, and our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones.
“Content depicting dangerous or illegal activity, including reckless driving, has no place on Snapchat and is prohibited by our Community Guidelines. We remove any content we identify that violates our policies.”
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