Ontario Provincial Police want people to think twice before posting a photo of a collision online.

Inspector Mark Andrews said a photo of a crash in northeastern Ontario last week made it online not long after it happened.

He said people should think before they publish online and on social media.

“They have to remember that the crashed vehicle that they’re capturing an image of isn’t just a thing,” he said.

“There is a person in there. It’s linked back to a family [and] it’s linked to a human being.”

He added police have a certain procedure for releasing information about a collision, and information online can impact how that is done.

“Let us do our job and let us get a hold of the family that’s impacted by that collision,” Andrews said.