Public Service Announcement

This should be on TV.

Warning, this is a bit graphic. View before deciding if your kids or others should watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8

Wow, that really crescendos.
Well worth the time.
Of course, after watching it I am not sure if I ever want to drive at all.

You may want to note that this is a tad graphic. Keep young kids from this till you view and decide. ( My 5 year old is not seeing this at the moment )

It should however be mandatory for licenced drivers to watch as part of the renewal of your licence.

I wish that people in the US had the balls to air something like this. But the bleeding hearts over here wouldn't allow it as it is too graphic to be on TV.

I agree, it's only too graphic until you get to see it first hand, then it's real, and the memory never goes away. Never. I wish they showed it in Driver's education.

dean1484 wrote: You may want to note that this is a tad graphic. Keep young kids from this till you view and decide. ( My 5 year old is not seeing this at the moment ) It should however be mandatory for licenced drivers to watch as part of the renewal of your licence.

Noted and edited OP. Thanks Dean

Too graphic? In high school I worked at my cousin's funeral home, $25 for picking up someone. (actualy $12.50/foot) Business was always good around graduation time.

I'm afraid the do-gooders won't let this run.

Too bad.

LopRacer wrote: I wish they showed it in Driver's education.

They showed us stuff like that in drivers ed. Not accidents occurring, but the aftermath of real ones, and they didn't spare any details.

It was very graphic. I never forgot it.

They do need to show this on TV here, especially around times that crashes spike, such as holidays and graduation season and such.

Heck, maybe it will scare kids while they're young enough to have nightmares over it. That sticks with you for a while.

Graphic depictions of the collisions and crashes do nothing to solve the issue of driver education. Seriously, how many of you have seen this stuff and still drive the way you do? Remember the older videos from the 50's and 60's? Lotta good they did.

Open and frank conversation, proper in-class education, with more and better seat time is the only way that teens will begin to get better. Remember, the adolescent brain isn't fully developed until the early twenties. Left to their own devices teens will do what teens have always done...take Dad's chariot and drive it into the nearest Doric column. Trying to scare them is pointless--have you seen the video games they play?

vwcorvette wrote: Graphic depictions of the collisions and crashes do nothing to solve the issue of driver education. Seriously, how many of you have seen this stuff and still drive the way you do? Remember the older videos from the 50's and 60's? Lotta good they did.

True enough many will still drink and drive, and to many this will have little or no effect. But it will get to some. And some may now think before drinking and driving. Bottom line........if it stops just one person then it is working.

Derick Freese wrote: They do need to show this on TV here, especially around times that crashes spike, such as holidays and graduation season and such.

But it will get to some. And some may now think before drinking and driving. Bottom line........if it stops just one person then it is working.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ And there you have my reasons for posting this afternoon. When a member of a forum like this comes to an untimely death or gets seriously injured they just disappear from the forum. Only if they're known by other members would anyone post the results.

A bud wanted me to go to a bar one night with him and I declined because I just didn't feel like it. When they found him, his body was on the hood of his Comet and his feet were still on the pedals. He lived, and has been in a chair since. It was 34 years ago. Two years of operations and rehabilitation then a lifetime of rolling around. He's one of the "lucky" ones.

Good commercial. That would never fly in America but it should.

vwcorvette said: Open and frank conversation, proper in-class education, with more and better seat time is the only way that teens will begin to get better.

Agreed. I also think it's high time we updated the drivers tests, and make it harder to get a license.

It's kinda long as a commercial, but very informative. My fear is that the people who need to see it are already in the "brain dead barbarian" zone and would just laugh it off or make crass comments about the death and destruction.

I'd have no problems running it on TV. It's real, after all. You'd have hundreds of Emergency Responders going "Seen That."

Make it like germany's. You have to be 18, and you have to take the test in a manual transmission, the test is also a lot more thorough, and the pass/fail margin is much tighter, atleast that's what I've been told.

I agree, they need to show this in driver's ed.

I watched it and then went out and did something about it....

I arrested a drunk driver tonight before he had a chance to kill somebody. (He wasn't actually drunk but he was messed up on Narcotics which is just as bad.)

I actually forwarded it to a few of my cop buddies and they all thought it would be helpful if people had to watch it.

Not half as bad as i thought it might be. The films they showed in driver's Ed were worce. But the bigests efect in my life not drink and drive was working for a tow company that did police tows off I95 just north of boston. Sometimes we'd get there before the meat waggons.

Why do i keep hearing Homer Simpson....."Hey it's funny cause I don't know them..."

pimpm3 wrote: I watched it and then went out and did something about it.... I arrested a drunk driver tonight before he had a chance to kill somebody. (He wasn't actually drunk but he was messed up on Narcotics which is just as bad.) I actually forwarded it to a few of my cop buddies and they all thought it would be helpful if people had to watch it.

Good. Thanks. Job well done. One less on the road. Also thanks to the OP for putting this up.

pimpm3 wrote: I watched it and then went out and did something about it.... I arrested a drunk driver tonight before he had a chance to kill somebody. (He wasn't actually drunk but he was messed up on Narcotics which is just as bad.) I actually forwarded it to a few of my cop buddies and they all thought it would be helpful if people had to watch it.

Thank you! You may have saved a life or more.