Nikki Catsouras car crash photos

Nikki Catsouras

Nikki Catsouras car crash photo have again raised curiocity of netizens. The search trends show that “Nikki Catsouras car crash photos” is the number-one search item on Google right now. The other related search terms like nikki catsouras accident photos, nikki catsouras accident pictures, nikki catsouras decapitated and nikki catsouras crash photos are not far behind. It surprising what people might be getting by seeting the photographs of dead women at an accident site?

Nicole or Nikki Catsouras (who died on October 31, 2006) was an American woman who died at the age of 18 as a result of a car crash after losing control of her father’s Porsche 911 Carrera at high speed and colliding with a toll booth in Orange County, California. An autopsy revealed cocaine had recently been ingested by Nicole. The death was notable for a controversy surrounding the leakage of photographs of Catsouras’ badly damaged body on to the Internet, which caused her family to take legal action due to distress about the incident.

Nikki Catsouras “accident was so gruesome the authorities wouldn’t allow her parents to identify their daughter’s body.” However, photographs of the scene of Catsouras’ death were taken by California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers as part of standard fatal vehicle accident procedures. These photos were then forwarded to others within the Department, and then spread across the Internet.

The pictures had gained much attention, including in the form of a fake MySpace tribute website that actually contained links to the photographs. Griefers also anonymously e-mailed copies of the photos to the Catsouras family with misleading subject headers, in one case captioning the photo sent to the father with the words “Woohoo Daddy! Hey daddy, I’m still alive.”

What is it about such disturbing photos that fascinates human being? Why we want to see accident sites and dead bodies around? Is it Human? These are some questions still need answer.

Also do we need a law to protect privacy of people? Should the people responsible for leaking the photos be punished? Should the people spreading the photos on internet be punished?