Posted on 08/20/2009 11:51:31 AM PDT by CMoran325
The dangers of driving while texting (DWT) are undeniable, yet people continue motoring along, heads down, fingers flying, as they clog up traffic or swerve in and out of lanes. In a nod to the classic blood-and-guts driver's ed films of the '50s and '60s, a police department in Wales has decided the best way to raise awareness of the deadly DWT epidemic is to disgust and scare the crap out of people.
The new public service announcement, which spares no details, includes snapping necks, piercing screams, blood galore, an orphaned child, a dead infant, and multiple helicopters. The only thing apparently missing is a flattened, cute little puppy. While the spot may seem disturbingly graphic, it does effectively deliver the message. Hopefully, it will make its way from Wales to the States, and, more importantly, become required viewing in high school driver's ed classes everywhere.
Here's a link to the video directly on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I54mlK0kVw&feature=player_embedded
I get to ride in a helicopter if I text!?!
They just passed a no texting law in TN. I’m not sure what I think.
Before you could hold the phone up in your line of vision to text. Now you have to keep it below the dash which takes your eyes off the road.
Ha, at least you get a one in three chance. It’s sort of like Russian roulette.
Great video though, props to those who made it. And it’s not just for teens, I’m sending it to my adult family and friends too.
We need to encourage teens to start smoking again. It’s gotta be hard to hold a cigarette in one hand, and the steering wheel in the other hand, and text with the other hand.
We are here from the government, we are here to help you.
Aw hell, this just sounds like one of my kinky Saturday nights.
Too bad it was a staged set. Of course the wrecks and carnage of speeding drivers and drunk drivers in horrible accidents never got through to me ——just saying. I drive safe for other reasons ( think insurance premiums)
Send it via text, while driving.
We have a couple of those in our town. I call them ‘rollerskates with an engine’. Dangerous as hell.
Anyone caught texting and driving should just be beaten with a shovel. I’m sorry, but exactly how stupid is someone who texts and drives at the same time? And yet, I see people do it all the time. Perhaps they should just make special roads for idiots. I am SO sick and tired of avoiding these bone heads on the road.
Let's include people reading newspapers, maps and putting on make up.
Nanny state PSA’s are always so creative and well-done. These folks should get into the teen slasher movie racket while there’s still a market for it.
They can watch it on their iPhones, while driving...
And those that have been drinking or doping.
Did that Brit guy yell “Broken omelets!!!”?
Sounded about right.
They typically started like this one does, showing the actions of the drivers leading up to the wreck, and then switching to the aftermath. Seeing real decapitated heads and mangled, bloody corpses, sure got our attention! One image has stuck with me my whole life: a policeman picking up the upper torso of a man who was laying face down, when the head was lifted, you saw that the front half was missing and only goop/brain was hanging from the skull.
These films made even the most macho among us queasy! I suppose that's why they're not shown to high schoolers anymore (we mustn't shock their delicate senses!)
I don’t even like to talk to others in the car or have the radio on, when I’m driving... :-)
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