'Remarkably stupid' YouTube pair who crashed and flipped car near the Wrekin are fined
Two YouTubers who flipped a car and crashed near the Wrekin in a viral video have been fined £1,000 each.
Jamie "Jay" Swingler and Romell Henry, both 27, carried out a series of risky manoeuvres for their video titled 'Extreme Driving Test (Car Flipped)'. The clip, in which Richard Percival was the driving instructor, racked up more than eight million views on their TGFBro YouTube channel. The duo have more than six million subscribers.
Swingler, of Wellington, Telford, and Henry, of Stafford, were sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to careless driving. Percival, aged 51 and of Robert Street, Dudley, will be sentenced at a later date.
The video, which was filmed on March 6, 2020 and uploaded two days later, was played to the court. It showed Percival giving Swingler and Henry a "driving lesson" in a silver Renault Clio. It shows them mounting grass verges, crashing into another car - which was a prop - and flipping the car onto its side.
