'Aggressive' driver met with horrible fate 30 minutes after filming this illegal street takeover

A 22-year-old man accused of fierce driving met pinch a horrible destiny conscionable half an hr aft filming an forbidden thoroughfare takeover.

Antoine Hampton recorded nan takeover successful Memphis, Tennessee connected Sunday, and shared it to his Facebook.

It showed nan self-described contented creator signaling cars revving their engines and doing donuts successful nan mediate of a engaged street, arsenic Hampton gave a thumbs down and telling a friend 'this s*** s****.'

He and his friends were intelligibly opinionated successful beforehand of a velocity limit motion - showing that nan limit was conscionable 40mph arsenic cars flashed by, leaving fume successful their wake, while different drivers tried to get astir them.

Just half an hr aft nan video was taken, Memphis constabulary opportunity Hampton collapsed his Infiniti QX70 into a Lexus SUV - sidesplitting him, nan different driver, 51-year-old erstwhile coach Lachell Boyd, and her passenger, 51-year-old Terry Baggett.

Police reported that Hampton engaged successful 'aggressive driving' and was 'careless, reckless' and walking supra nan velocity limit erstwhile he collapsed his SUV into Boyd's Lexus arsenic she was making a left-hand move connected Hickory Hill Road astatine astir 8pm, according to WREG.

She was conscionable a fewer feet from her location and was turning onto her subdivision adjacent Sunny Morning Drive - returning location aft taking supplies to thief a comparative astatine nan time.

Boyd, Baggett and Hampton were each pronounced dormant astatine nan smoke-filled scene.

Four others were rushed to Regional One Hospital successful captious condition, and a insignificant was brought to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital successful non-critical condition, ABC 24 reports. 

'It was a large mess,' neighbour Tanya Allen recounted to Fox 13 of nan fatal collision. 'The cars were mangled and nan horns were going off.'

Stacy Edwards besides said she heard cars speeding down Hickory Hill Road 'but nan past clip I heard it, it was large aged boom.'

She said she instantly knew thing was wrong.

'I told my mom, 'That didn't sound good. That really doesn't sound good,' Edwards told WREG. 

Both women said resistance racing has go a awesome rumor successful nan area, pinch Allen noting that nan cars are 'just very accelerated and retired of control.

'If they're going that speed, it tin origin decease - and it did,' she said, arguing that nan velocity cheque connected nan roadworthy does thing to deter drivers from going complete nan limit.

'They're driving for illustration maniacs and it's really scary.'

Some residents now reason that much needs to beryllium done to deter resistance racing successful nan area - pinch Bennie Cobb, a retired skipper of nan Shelby County Sheriff's Office, saying that location needs to beryllium much terrible and swift consequences.

'There's gonna person to beryllium an contiguous immoderate benignant of harsh reward that sets nan illustration from rule enforcement for these violators for nan ones that are operating these missiles,' he said.

'There's gonna person to beryllium immoderate benignant of urgency to this wherever we're calling successful large guns,' Cobb said, suggesting constabulary usage helicopters and drones to pinpoint wherever thoroughfare takeovers are happening and make it publically known what happens to offenders.

But successful nan meantime, constabulary are looking for witnesses to nan deadly clang and others progressive successful nan reckless driving that day.

They are besides searching for six vehicles they opportunity near nan segment of nan collision.