YouTuber Crashes His Luxury Sports Car While Filming
People do all sorts of things now to “go viral” or to chase that viral content – but this influencer just crashed his $200,000 car while “influencing”… and it’s our Setting the Bar story!
20-year-old influencer Jack Doherty crashed his new $200,000 sports car near Miami and was livestreaming at the time. His friend Michael was the one filming from the passenger seat. It shows Jack checking his phone while doing 70 MPH in his McLaren in the rain. They hit a barricade, and the car was totaled. There’s footage of the crash and then of random people pulling them from the car.
When you have over 14 million subscribers, you don’t stop influencing even when disaster strikes. They kept rolling the whole time. Jack looks directly into the camera while people are pulling him out. He doesn’t thank any of them, only thinking about his car. Michael had blood streaming down his face, but Jack hands him a phone and says “film on that one, too.”
Later he directs someone else to “make it look good”. Jack could face charges for distracted driving. It was the day before his 21st birthday, too. Ouch. And the streaming site Kick banned him. Also…not his first rodeo crashing a pricey car. Six months ago, he crashed his Lambo.
Maybe we take a pause on driving fancy cars…and also filming?