Have you filmed a crash, scrape or near miss? ITV wants your footage

[ITVCaughtOnCamera]

For a brand new primetime show about UK road crashes, near misses, scrapes and escapes, ITV are looking for footage filmed on dash cams and helmet cams by road users across the country.

As well as featuring the clips themselves, we are looking to tell the stories behind some of these clips, and speak to those involved.

Please get in touch if you have a clip you think we could use in the show. We'd also like to know if you might be interested in appearing on camera to talk through your experiences.

Please contact us at caughtoncamera@itn.co.uk - we look forward to hearing from you.

 

[mr_cellophane]

Yawn

 

[glenn forger]

For a brand new primetime show about UK road crashes, near misses, scrapes and escapes, ITV are looking for footage filmed on dash cams and helmet cams by road users across the country.

As well as featuring the clips themselves, we are looking to tell the stories behind some of these clips, and speak to those involved.

Please get in touch if you have a clip you think we could use in the show. We'd also like to know if you might be interested in appearing on camera to talk through your experiences.

Please contact us at caughtoncamera@itn.co.uk - we look forward to hearing from you.

Will there be a frantic VoiceOver insisting that "road rage is getting worse!!!" based on zero evidence?

Will your programme, like all the others featuring helmet cams, foment aggression and hostility?

Will it be short on facts, big on supposition and angled at hysterical over-inflation of what's happening?

I suspect that yes is the answer, so you can do one. Make proper tv programmes and stop exploiting the irrational hatred of the lowest common demoninator.

 

[ianrauk]

Bet it's going to be called "More road rage wars between road tax paying motorists and cycling scum"

 

[roadrash]

10 /1 says the programme features an ex cyclist called mathew

 

[glenn forger]

Yep, the last episode of this tawdry programme was a new low, it was sloppy, factually inaccurate, badly made, sensationalist, unhelpful and dangerously inciteful. Interesting that the OP begging us to do their job for them won't give their name.

 

[glenn forger]

The last episode featured this individual:

“The shiny bum brigade... I can’t be doing with cyclists. If I’m paying tax on the road then I want to be able to ride on the road. They don’t pay tax so why should they ride three or four deep"... the words of white van driver Gaz McPartland, 38, from Preston.

Now, granting Mr McPartland an audience of millions is validation for his thuggish views. You reported that nugget of ignorance and you didn't carry any explanation as to why he's dangerously misinformed. This is like allowing racists to spout hateful abuse based on complete lies. It's irresponsible programme making, it encourages hostility, it reinforces prejudice, it could lead to people getting hurt.

Do one.

 

[discominer]

The last episode featured this individual:

“The shiny bum brigade... I can’t be doing with cyclists. If I’m paying tax on the road then I want to be able to ride on the road. They don’t pay tax so why should they ride three or four deep"... the words of white van driver Gaz McPartland, 38, from Preston.

Now, granting Mr McPartland an audience of millions is validation for his thuggish views. You reported that nugget of ignorance and you didn't carry any explanation as to why he's dangerously misinformed. This is like allowing racists to spout hateful abuse based on complete lies. It's irresponsible programme making, it encourages hostility, it reinforces prejudice, it could lead to people getting hurt.

Do one.

What he said, with jam on.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

@ITVCaughtOnCamera : I agree with what the others said above. Even though I'm from Australia, we get the same over here; requests for video footage, followed by some ridiculously sensationalist TV show which typically gets the facts wrong because the show's producers don't properly consult those who decide to share their videos. Then, following the airing of the show, anti-cyclist prejudice on the roads is quite often worse than usual.

 

[Drago]

Loads of pulp footage here...

https://m.youtube.com/#/user/SonofthewindsInc

Doubtless the kind of car crash tv you're seeking.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Not a chance, we've bought apples from your cart before.

GC

 

[stephec]

For a brand new primetime show about UK road crashes, near misses, scrapes and escapes, ITV are looking for footage filmed on dash cams and helmet cams by road users across the country.

As well as featuring the clips themselves, we are looking to tell the stories behind some of these clips, and speak to those involved.

Please get in touch if you have a clip you think we could use in the show. We'd also like to know if you might be interested in appearing on camera to talk through your experiences.

Please contact us at caughtoncamera@itn.co.uk - we look forward to hearing from you.

Just out of interest, what are you offering to pay me so that you can edit my footage to make me appear to be a reject from the Jeremy Kyle Show?

 

[vickster]

A nice warm CycleChat welcome from all

 

[stephec]

 

[glenn forger]

It was ITV that paid serial drink driver Alastair Stewart to front their "Crash Bang Wallop" programme. I think everyone connected with these low-rent exploitation programmes are dirty beasts and I hope their ears fall off.