Police looking for person who filmed dying crash victims for social media

As a 24-year-old woman and her 15-year-old brother lay dying in this mangled wreck on Friday night, someone rushed to the scene — not to help, but to shoot a video to share on social media.

A sickening video taken of two young victims lying dead, or dying, after a horrific car crash in Western Sydney on Friday night has been widely shared on social media.

An unknown person shot the six-second video in the ­immediate aftermath of the crash, showing the remains of the car with the two siblings still strapped in.

The video pans from the crushed front of the Toyota Echo to the back seat.

Alina Kauffman, 24, and her 15-year-old brother Ernesto died at the scene and a group of teenagers were still on the run as of last night.

Police were made aware of the video yesterday afternoon.

The brother and sister travelling in this car died in the head-on smash. Picture: TNV

The footage shows no apparent attempt by those who filmed it to render first aid.

In it, the person filming can be heard saying what is ­believed to be: “Oh my god” ­repeatedly in Arabic.

Alina Kauffman.

And her brother Ernesto.

sHighway Patrol Commander Assistant Commissioner Anthony Boyd said detectives would be scouring ­social media as part of the ­investigation.

“The behaviour of anyone who records images of two critically injured young people is heartless and shameful, and something that any right-thinking member of the community would find appalling,” he said.

“I cannot imagine how much this will add to the distress already being suffered by the family and friends of these young people.”

The same group chat circulating the video was also posting social media images of one of the victims, as well as pictures of the alleged driver.

Flowers left at the scene yesterday.Picture: Julian Andrews

One picture showed his driver’s licence on what appeared to be the Service NSW app, with a caption claiming he was handing himself into police.

The footage and images of the victims – just 15 and 24 – were circulating in the group chat at the same time the victims’ distraught mother Angelina Kauffman was crying at the scene grieving the loss of her children.

Just as locals were laying flowers and paying their respects to the Kauffmans a motorcyclist without a helmet had a near miss metres from the scene when he swerved onto the wrong side of the road to overtake a car.

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