Police investigate racing, speeding and anti-social behaviour at car meets on Sheffield retail park
Police are asking for footage in a bid to break up regular ‘car meets’ taking place on a Sheffield retail park.
South Yorkshire Police is investigating reports of “criminal damage, speeding cars and anti-social driving” in the car park of Drakehouse Retail Park.
Car meets are organised gatherings of drivers and motorcyclists who make a hobby of modifying cars.
However, they are criticised by police forces for often developing into races and anti-social behaviour.
A spokesperson said: “On Tuesday (February 17) at 9.34pm, officers we received reports that drivers had gathered on Drakehouse Retail Park and were committing driving offences while blighting the communities with the associated anti-social behaviour car meets can cause.
“We are committed to working with organisers of car meets, but the criminality and danger they can pose will not be tolerated.”
The following night (Wednesday, February 19), officers were then informed of further reports that cars driving at speed along the A57 and Eckington Way just after 7pm.
SYP’s North East Sheffield neighbourhood policing team is now asking for footage of the vehicles involved on either night.
Footage can be submitted directly using this link: https://orlo.uk/1tJes
Any further information can be shared online, via live chat or by calling 101 quoting incident number 1012 of February 17, 2026.
It comes after two court cases in 2025 over car meets in South Yorkshire that ended in disaster.
At a meet up in 2022, Connor Richards, 23, from Sheffield, died of his injuries when then-17-year-old Lewis Samuels crashed into a crowd of spectators while driving at 70mph in a 30mph area.
A large number of vehicles had met at the Marks and Spencer’s car park in Scunthorpe for a static car meet before moving onto the Flixborough Industrial Estate in Scunthorpe, on Saturday, 24 September 2022, where police say numerous road traffic offences were committed including competitive driving.
Months later, in January 2023, a young man’s life was changed forever when he lost his leg at a horror crash at at car meet outside the McLaren factory on Selden Way, Catcliffe.
Chaos erupted at around 8.30pm when a motorcyclist made a slow right turn from nearby Whittle Way onto Brunel Way - at the same moment Jack Wasteney, of Shireoaks, Worksop, chose to race down the straight in his souped-up VW Golf and hit the biker at around 50mph, sending him cartwheeling through the air.