A harrowing taken by the victim of a fatal car crash in the moments before he died and uploaded by British police as a warning against drug-driving to other young drivers reached almost 9 million views by Oct 16.

Driver Kyle Careford, 20, and his friend Michael Owen, 21, who were both high on drugs, died instantly when the car they were in crashed at high speed into a church wall on a country road.

Mr Owen, who had a five-year-old daughter, took the video on his phone and it was posted on YouTube by Sussex police on Monday (Oct 12) with a warning to viewers and the consent of the victims' families.

In the video, Mr Owen appears to be giving Mr Careford a driving lesson.

Mr Owen is heard saying just before the impact that the car was going at 145km per hour – three times more than the speed limit in the area.

The crunch of the impact can be heard, though not seen, and then a voice asks: “Can you hear me?”

“If all this stops one person from making the same mistake, then some good has come from showing this video,” Mr Owen's mother, Kat, said.

“I really don't know why the boys chose to do what they did but I blame them both for the decisions they made on this night,” she said.

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