Irish lawmakers have asked TikTok to explain how it handles videos that glorify illegal and dangerous driving after police warned that young people were driving on the wrong side of motorways for social media attention. The move follows a deadly crash on Sunday in which five teenage boys died, while three women and a child in another vehicle were seriously injured.

Videos reportedly showing dangerous driving and motorway stunts have spread widely across social media. Ireland’s media regulator has also asked TikTok for details on the steps it has taken to address reckless driving content. TikTok said it was monitoring material linked to the crash and removing videos and accounts that violate its rules.

Irish police groups say groups of young men have been competing to create increasingly dangerous videos involving traffic violations and encounters with police. The government has promised additional resources for law enforcement and is considering making wrong-way motorway driving a separate offence, while police plan to introduce vehicle-pursuit training later this year.

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