As a race us humans never cease to amaze me. Driving south along the M5 motorway this afternoon the radio warned of a serious multi-car accident on the northbound carriageway. As usual this affected the traffic going south as people slowed down to rubber-neck, a term that I dislike but will use. The accident on the other side of the road involved several cars and must have happened at high speed. The police had closed two of the three available lanes, with traffic able to use the third lane to get around the collision. The fire-brigade had just managed to cut someone out of their car, the paramedics had him on a stretcher with their bare feet out in the open air. But this wasn’t what amazed me. I  also understand that when a traffic accident occurs it is natural human inquisitiveness for us to want to find out what happened. As I was driving slowly past I noticed that on the hard shoulder, about 200 yards after the accident, a BMW had parked up. The BMW hadn’t been involved in the collision as far as I could see. What I could see was the driver leaning round in his seat holding a video camera. This individual had the audacity to film another person being cut out of the wreckage of their vehicle and attended by paramedics.

Sick.