My father always told me, that when I am late, there is no need to inhumanly hurry because I am already late and shouldn't risk my life over lost time. I still think he is a genius
@@bassnbrass9272 Similarly, I was nearly -side-swiped- side-rammed by someone coming on the highway from an onramp. They were going maybe 80 MPH in a 55 zone. I narrowly avoided it for my habit of looking in mirrors often, then braking hard. (No one was behind me.)
Yup I told my kid man when he was in high school, just call us there will be no judgement. We want you to live. He did. Went to pick up him and 3 of his friends all of whom admitted they would never have called their parents.
I enjoy speeding about 20 or 30 over the limit I also am able to keep my surroundings in check and believe their are no such things as blinds spots. I can drive anything perfectly. I can see if someone's gonna pull out I. Front of me before you can say hey listen
JESUS loves us all, but he is a righteous judge and sin is still wrong even though he loves us. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."❤
Lol, people don't care. They all think they're the "main character". Drivers, of all ages, have been getting worse. So many tailgaters out there these days.
@jakobquick6875 Yup, they were all death traps. Protruding metal objects everywhere inside the passenger compartment. Rear view mirrors, door/window handles, gear shift, dashboards, no safety glass, no crumple zones, seat belts, or collapsesable steering columns.
Driver's ed instructor here. They don't make movies like this much anymore and it's too bad. The kids need to see this, but from an era they can relate to, and without the painfully cheesy narration and horror film motif. Just simple uncensored clips of the scenes with dry facts-only narration of what happened, that would be perfect. Too many can't-happen-to-me attitudes out there, they need to see what DOES happen every day.
My wife and I agree 100%. Too many drivers do not even see the carnage as a possibility. Your description of how to produce an updated version is perfect.
@@blindlemon9 Many ways to look at it I guess. To me, the pure reality.of these incidents is enough. Creepy enhancements and slick film work.cheapen it, make it seem less real, turn it into entertainment. Crash investigators do thorough photo and video documentation to have a factual record. Clips of those images with a dry narration describing the people involved, the facts of the crash and the mistakes made, over an audio background of ambient sound from a crash scene-muffled conversations, radio chatter, firetrucks idling, airbrakes engaging, tow truck winch, power tools running, metal being cut. Like, this happens so regularly it's not even special. A colleague who was a retired LEO once told me about arriving at the scene of a single-car crash back in the 90s... Three dead teens, two of them ejected, one of the ejected in two pieces, Smashing Pumpkins still jamming on the car stereo. That doesn't need any enhancement. Just show how it was and tell the story.
@@blindlemon9no; this would have the same impact as a horror movie. Faces of death and horror movies have never worked. The real unedited, no american cheese is only thing that would help. All this overdramatic - extra cheese takes away from realism
I wholeheartedly believe that showing videos of car crashes can save lives ...my husband was going to work when a drunk driver crashed into his truck going over one hundred mph ...the car behind my husband was a mom , her boyfriend , her two sons and daughter ...the drunk driver had just got out of prison for DUI , his wife gave him a sports car celebrating his release from jail ...he had just been stopped for another DUI , and his attorney got the ticket fixed ...the drunk driver was killed , the mom and 6 yr.old daughter were also killed ...my husband spent a year in and out of the hospital , had eleven surgeries and became disabled ...there was blood everywhere and i have pictures I wanted to be shown in Drivers education , to show the damage to the three vehicles involved with a huge beer can crushed into the wreckage , I was told it was to traumatic to show teenagers ... Its been close to fifteen years and i can close my eyes and still see 😢the beercan crushed in the door of the drunk driver ...this was a huge fail from getting out of prison, receiving a sports car , getting a DUI after being released from prison for multiple DUIs , that ticket was fixed , then a country bar serving him when he was drunk , then buying the can of beer in a store just up from the fatal accident site ...so many things that shouldn't have happened ...preventing and stopping just one of these could have saved a mom and her sweet inocent 6 yr old daughter ...just thinking of all the pain felt by so many is heartbreaking ...lives lost and lives changed by drinking and driving ...
Money lets you out of trouble in the United States. People who think this is horrible should not be voting for people who get out of trouble with money.
I was on checkpoint duty in Bosnia when a drunk driver crashed into our CV-90. At first I thought it was deliberate act but when nobody answered our calls I slowly approached the car , opening the car door the smell of alcohol hit me. The car was of some Eastern European make, so there was no safety Features. The driver had killed his family, a baby had been smashed against the front window, the wife had a fractured skull with her brain hanging out, the to girls in the backseat also had severe head and chest injuries .One of them died while the medic tried to save her, but it was too late. The driver had been impaled on the steering wheel and had no lower jaw. The smell of blood and some kind of plum spirit (it’s called Slivovitz) will stay with me until I die. Because of this instance I’m not able to drink alcohol and haven’t touched a drop for over 25 years.
Yep. I had a friend who is a tow truck driver. He was trying to explain to me what it was like to try to put a scalp back on a little seven-year-old girl who screaming, bloody murder. Her parents guts smeared all over the place. And the two highway patrol man in the bushes puking their guts out.
I'm a farmer, and farm with a couple of small older tractors and 2 teams of draft horses. The quiet country roads are getting so busy now and everyone drives so fast. It is all blind hills here where I live. City people drive like they own the road, and just over the hill there I am a sitting duck with 4 horses on a piece of farm equipment going to the field, and they start honking and roar past while swearing at me through the open window. These narrow roads farm equipment takes up 3/4 of the road, no shoulder or ditch, just trees and nowhere to pull off. If people would just be patient and wait a few minutes.
As a police officer for 20 years, I wholeheartedly believe videos like this - or even this one - be shown to young drivers and before every other driver renews their licence. In a world of censorship and PC, respect for reality is lost.
Totally agree. I don't think anyone, kids and adults included, should be granted a driver's license unless they have seen what a mess on the highway looks like.
Here's a good idea. Up the age limit to get a license. Require testing that actually means a goddamn thing. Charge $1500 to take the test. Watch how you don't need to have silly videos anymore. Shit in. Shit out. But hey, it's the land of the free where anyone can do whatever they want. So watch your silly video.
Empty out the safe spaces? Not sure the fragility of recently weaned 20 to 30 year olds could handle it. Attorneys would be salivating over the potential class action suits. Pardon the pun but .. sounds like an accident waiting to happen. Speaking of space spaces look at YT .. censoring of "offensive" parts of historical photographs while the Yoga channels continue to showcase girls in pooornographic poses in the thumbnails
In the madness of recent years they eliminated behind-the-wheel training !! Also new arrivals who are illiterate to language and laws are already driving on the roads.
As a truck driver for twenty years in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's I have seen a lot of accidents and aftermaths of accidents. They are bad, but the one that hurt me the worst was seeing the guy burn in his van. I still tear up thinking about it.
My job today is fire rescue primary response team and the car accidents I go to on a regular basis are just as haunting as this film.the hardest hitting thing for me is when families turn up during the job.i can here family members screaming for there lost or injured one whilst retrieving bodies or cutting them out it’s crazy and trust me the screaming is on another level.
In May of 2022, I had just picked my three grandchildren up from school and we were headed to McD's. Traffic was heavy and we were stopped. In my rearview mirror I saw a red Jeep Patriot that was coming fast, and was not going to be able to stop. I had just enough time to tell the grandies we were going to get hit, and try to be calm, when she slammed into us and the rear glass on my RAV4 exploded. I was knocked out. I thank God every time I think about this that my grandchildren had just minor injuries and some trauma. My youngest granddaughter still won't ride ride with me. I had a pretty good concussion and damage to my neck, back, wrist and knee. My oldest granddaughter was twisted around, looking out the back at the oncoming car, so she was sore for several days. My grandson, in the second seat had a cut from glass. My youngest granddaughter, also in the back seat, was traumatized. Well, we all were. The driver of the Jeep had just gotten her learners permit, was speeding, had a passenger, which is not legal, was on a road her parents told her not to be on as there was too much traffic for a new driver, and, she was not looking at the road. They had no injuries except for the ass chewing her dad no doubt gave her. I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt now. We were buckled in that day, for sure. Thank you for reading all this, guess Grammie here has a little trauma, too.
I'm glad you all lived! God bless you! It's the worst when it's 100% the other driver's fault! Do you happen to remember if you had your foot on or off the break on impact? Was there a car in front of you? Sorry about that stupid new driver...new drivers have the most accidents followed by the people who don't realize the have lost the ability, sight, reflex etc. I had a few accidents in the first 3-4 years of driving and not one since. My pet peeve is people passing on the right at high speed. So dangerous.
I came upon a rear end collision about 40 years ago where a drunk was driving about 100 mph and hit a family as they pulled out of a steak house onto the road. The families car burst into flames and I saw the bodies burning inside the car, then watched as the firemen and police pulled out the charred remains. Later that night they opened up a private club (It was closed for the night already) that was in town for the responders to go and have a few drinks and decompress. I bet that night stayed with them for the rest of their lives.
Love that line about trying to use your car as a time machine, to take you back in time 15 minutes so you won't be late for work. I've never heard that one before.
What's really funny is often speeding doesn't save you more than a few minutes regardless. If you're running late, you're already late. Just leave earlier or take the L and move on in life instead of killing yourself/others.
Yep, when I was MUCH younger, if I was running late for work in the morning, I'd always reason to myself, 'well I'll make up for it on my drive in to work ' Amazed at the stupidity of it now looking back.
That officer at 8:00 is visibly shaken. Working hard to free someone before they die must take a greater immediate toll than working to free a dead body.
If that's how much a person can be shaken after witnessng a near-death experience, I don't want to imagine how would one feel seeing an actual fatality.
That was one of the most troubling pieces of media I have ever sat through. I utterly commend the makers for their uncompromising message delivery. Incredible public information film.
Reporter's and commentator's back then were more passionate and direct about how they said things. It always seemed like they was telling a epic story compared today's reporter's.
@@mr.smellgood2794 Besides that, the narration in this film doesn't need hot air to keep it afloat. It's just dead on straight with the facts as they really are.
My mother and I were first on scene of a horrific accident 50 years ago before car manufacturing safety, seat belts, and air bags. When side roads crossed I-59 - no longer allowed. An accident caused by a black mustang that passed us going well over 100 mph and slamming into the side of a station wagon so hard it caused it to flip many times. When I leaned over to look under the overturned car, a woman and a (looked like about) 12 year old girl were dead. I’ve never forgotten the scene, my shock and nausea, my desperate run to the nearest house (no cell phones), yelling at the older man who answered the door about the station wagon with a lady and girl wrecked and dead and police needed to come. His face contorted as he ran out of the house while the rest of the people in the house ran out toward the interstate screaming and a young woman holding the kids back from running there too. I had come upon the first house and the station wagon came from it, I found out later the older man was the woman’s father and girl’s grandfather and among the people who came to the street only to collapse were the woman’s husband, sister and other relatives. When I got back to the accident scene, my mother was holding the woman’s mother and there was a lot of onlookers. She told me to do what I could to get the others from trying to get them out of the car. I don’t know what I said but I got a blanket out of the trunk and hung it over the side of the car so people would guilt looking at them. We stayed until after the police and fire arrived and gave the police how the accident happened. He told us the driver of the mustang (across the median and far down the street, also overturned) was dead. What strikes me is that today all of them would probably have walked away from that accident.
That would definitely be a traumatic experience. I have witnessed a couple horrific scenes myself. Only thing is that I don't think even modern vehicles could prevent death with a 100 plus mph crash. I could be wrong. Stay safe and warm.
Some of the wagon people may have survived, if they were not on the side of the car that was struck. But the Mustang Driver would be killed or maimed at that speed, even now.
@@garylefevers If it was over 100 MPH, the occupants in the car that got T-boned would still be dead, but it would depend for the fast driver - that driver might survive. There was a wreck in August or September 2022 where a Nurse, she rammed 2 vehicles in Los Angeles above 80 MPH, and she killed 5 or 6 people in a fireball that consumed both cars (she hit 2 cars) very quickly. I think one of the women who died was pregnant, but I might be wrong. The driver survived, and probably went to prison.
@@unconventionalideas5683then it would be up to the seat belts to hold them onto the seat as the car rolled. Believe it or not the seat belts back then were very fragile and would probably have torn or the buckles would've fallen apart and the occupants would be thrown around inside the car or possibly ejected from the car. Look up "small car crashes! (1972)" on TH-cam if you want to see car crash tests where the seat belt tears.
It's not safer today than 50 years ago despite the advancement of safety devices, for the simple reason that more people drive more often and greater distances. Hence, the per trip and per capita death rate of today (44,000 deaths per year) is about the same 50 years ago (17,000 deaths per year).
I’m 22 and never been involved in a serious car accident, although I feel as if I really needed to see this tonight. I’ve recently brought another motorbike that’s much faster than my previous ones and I’ll be the first admit I haven’t taken safety seriously lately. This should be shared around as much as possible to young or new drivers
Last year someone near and dear to me died in a motorcycle accident and 8 months prior to his death he was in a motorcycle accident and had to have dental implants and had to heal from other injuries. Please be careful.
Your comments reminded me of when I got my first motorcycle (I've never had an accident or dropped my bike in 45 years of riding). When I was getting the motorcycle, the guy selling it wouldn't sell it to me until I could prove/demonstrate that I was a safe driver (rider). He checked me out thoroughly before he sold me the bike. Also -- when I was in the Air Force, all motorcycle riders were required to take a motorcycle safety course. While I was taking the course, the instructor asked if anyone checked/inspected their bike before riding it. Mine was the only hand that went up. I told him that I check my bike every time I get on it, even if I had been riding it only five minutes earlier. I told him that that was how I was raised to ride a motorcycle, and to always ride safely. He said that I was definitely the exception rather than the rule as far as safety goes. Invest in a motorcycle safety course. You'll never regret it.
I wish some of the punks around here were exposed to these videos. They think they're super cool on their "crotch rockets", doing wheelies and such. However, in Oct. of this year, there were three separate motorcycle accidents in a one-week period. NO ONE had on a helmet.
My brother rides, but his motto is "Live to ride" or something like that. I took lessons in Miami, but leave the 2 wheelers to him; his work lets him ride different kinds. In a 3rd world country!
I was lucky enough to survive on my bike when a lady pulled out in front of me. I was wearing protective gear but I still ended up with broken bones and surgery. I'm still trying to get the courage to get back on. Please people! Pay attention! We just want to enjoy our ride.
I was a Paramedic for a good number of years. This film shows the results accurately. I know the smell of burnt human flesh. Use your seatbelt, stay alert, and drive according to the road / weather conditions while obeying the law.
I will NEVER forget a "commercial" I saw the last weekend of June, 1971. I was watching the Orioles playing the Red Sox in Boston on either WBAL Channel 2 or WJZ Channel 13 that Saturday night. They had taken a commercial break when suddenly the screen went dark. Then, just as suddenly, there was the screeching of tires and vehicles violently colliding. Then there were psychedelic videos of people being pulled from mangled vehicles. The videos contained flashes of the "real deals" in "living" color. Not a word was spoken. They proceeded to show areal footage of a funeral. A skull and crossbones appeared and "zoomed in" on the screen. It was then that someone finally spoke. In a hideously chilling tone of voice a question was asked: "WHOOOOO'S NEXT?"
I find weird creepy old PSAs like that very fascinating. Now I want to see it. Along with “House of The Hemophiliac” and the 1974 version of “Hate Hurts You”
My uncle was RCMP for many years .We asked him once if he thought about the arrests he had made .He had had a few whiskeys , and talked about policing . He said he never wasted a minute thinking about " punks and drunks " , But he could never forget all the dead kids he had to pull out of wrecked cars . RIP uncle Patrick , I know it haunted him .
When I was in high school, we were shown Death on the Highways and Signal 30 just before prom. That was in 1963 and 1964. Those films were disturbing then and they still are now. Wow.
In the fall of 1989 my husband had to go to a party, I said to not drive home to stay the morning. The next morning my dad was woken up by the county sheriff 😔 to tell him that my husband had died in an accident. I always worried about a DWI because of the financial drain. I never thought about him having an accident 😢 so this movie brings many memories back.😢
dont ya hate when tell them dont drive and they do anyway!! and say oh I'm fine to drive sorry that happen to you life is hard and it seems to get harder as we age
Back in the late 80s near where I live a car with six of my future wife's classmates was being driven at a high rate of speed on a dark October night. The driver missed a curve, went off the left side of the road, and struck a brick gate post at a cemetery entrance. The gate post shattered, and as the car rode up over the stump of it, the car's gas tank was ruptured. The middle back seat passenger was the only one wearing her seat belt and was able to escape out the broken back window. One of the occupants was killed on impact, but the other four sustained injuries to the point they could not escape. The girl tried to pull her friends out, despite being injured herself, but was forced back by the flames and had to listen as four of her friends burned to death. All for the thrill of speed. Folks, if you want a thrill, if you crave adrenaline, go to an amusement park. It's a whole lot cheaper than a funeral.
Thats why we have race tracks and drag strips. Can get that rush of speed safely as possible. Obviously isnt perfectly safe, but chances of dying are much slimmer and you wont be hurting anyone else which is the most important for me. I love racing but my biggest fear is hurting my passenger or another driver, and that thought keeps me tame. I do some spirited driving at times but i would never go to the limit like im on a track. Time and place for everything
@@blindlemon9 1959...so 65 years ago, before all cars had seat belts and it was the law to wear them. Vehicle safety, First aid, Trauma medicine, have ALL come a LONG way! Thank goodness! Thank God! But people are still finding a way around all the rules.
@@XANSEM nowadays peoples doing lot of more Dangerous and even dumber stuff for a Internet challenge. Remember the car breaks in tiktok. Teens break into Cars and steal it, there are even reports in the news about this Trend.
I watched this movie 52 years ago at a driver education course at the State Police headquarters. It sure made an impression on a young me. It should still be shown in D.E. today, but peoples heads would spin off if it were to be shown.
Our DE teacher was a ww2 combat vet, and taught us very well, but he scissored out some of the worst gore in the film and fixed it with scotch tape, bless his heart.
Whenever I was in high school I believe this was in 1998 but the VW Beetle had been made available to buy new again and my friend Gavin's mom bought one. A yellow one and it was a beautiful little car but it was also pretty fast for it being so small. It had a manual transmission & if you knew how to drive a stick it really didn't matter if they had alot of horsepower or not. You could make any vehicle with a stick shift perform like it was a muscle car.... Gavin loved that car and he loved driving fast and one afternoon my sister came found me at a friend's house and told me Gavin wrecked his mom's car coming back home from school that day. His carelessness cost him his life and he was only 17. Not only his life but his younger sister's friend who was 14 (Natalie) and his younger sister KK who barely survived the crash. Gavin was going over 100+mph and failed to negotiate a curve and smashed into a concrete drain pipe and smashed the VW Beetle *(just like a bug would whenever it hits the windshield) I know someone is going to comment something to that effect if anyone even reads this but the point is that my friend might still be alive today had he been made to watch some film like this. Maybe he would maybe he wouldn't we will never know but it is an all too familiar tragic tale that almost everyone knows someone who has a similar experience. Kids believe they are invincible until tragedy happens and sometimes it is too late
A customer just called my shop asking if we could govern the speed of his teenage son's pickup truck as he had been ticketed twice now for excessive speed. I advised him that we could and set an appointment. I also suggested he require his son to view this video. I hope it helps.
I wonder how useful that really would be. Knowing the car can’t go faster than say 55 mph would probably prevent the kid from trying to race, but you can still get killed driving like an idiot at under 55 mph. In fact most crash tests and safety systems are only designed for 35 mph.
I spent 20 years as a volunteer firefighter and have seen too many accidents with horrific end results. Was diagnosed in 2017 with chronic PTSD. My advice to all who read this is slow down and drive wisely or this is what can happen to you!!
Our next door neighbors son is one too. If they happen to go down our road(we live in the country), they'll honk while going by, in the big pumper truck. Thank you for your service!
I survived a serious car accident in 1996. The accident was weather related and I did nothing to cause the wreck. The car was totaled but I wasn't. The only injuries on me were from the air bag and the seatbelt. So tragic that many of these lives could have been saved with seat belts and air bags. I especially felt bad for the 2 teen boys who survived the wreck that killed their other family members.
The roadway version of "scared straight." 😐 I'm in my 60s, and I remember no seat belts in the car. We bounced around in the back seat like pinballs. My folks were alcoholics who often drank, and drove. I remember being terrified. I'm lucky to be alive.
Crazy how today you can’t even say or print words like “rape” or “murder” . I guess because people have become so sensitive? I’m not really sure. But I was about a 1/4 way through this before I realized these weren’t re-enactments. I see at least two early 20s new drivers saying that this really impacted them. I’m thinking it’s possible that just watching this has already saved lives for the two. I’m impressed they cared enough about people to make these films. Hate to admit that I honestly don’t think they care much anymore. Not today’s government.
@@lisacolbert5987 This is far from the only film of its type. None of these show re-enactment footage, except some have tacked on in-between actual car wreck footage. It was different from the 1950s - 1970s and probably part of the 1980s. Others include: Signal 30 Wheels of Tragedy (though it does have acting in parts) Mechanized Death Blood on the Windscreen (though this one had the blood doctored up to look more vivid.) Red Asphalt (this one had a guy at the end, in a 1 car Corvair wreck, get the A pillar apparently through his chin. It went through to his neck.) There are probably more that I don't know about, but a few of these were shot by The Ohio State Patrol.
Old film but still carries a powerful message that still resonates to this very day and beyond. However, I am quite surprised at how graphic this film is and how it has made it this far without being banned and removed from TH-cam.
If it's not graphic it completely defeats the purpose of showing it. It's like the Ray Rice incident a while back. When "all he did" was punch his girlfriend unconscious and the only video was him dragging her out of the elevator, it was no big deal. 2 week suspension and everyone went about their lives. That was until the video of inside the elevator was released. Now for some weird reason, it was much much much more worse even though it was obvious what had happened there just wasn't video so meh went the public. Just like if you censored these video or worse just told what happened meh would go the public.
@@Lightblue2222what do you mean you suppose it's presented as educational? Even if you weren't going into it with the intention of being educated on the subject matter and was simply looking for a cheap thrill you would without any doubt be educated on what you can expect driving like an asshole.
bodies dont just instantly turn stiff.. the only 2 things that are fake is the line of bodies at the end to demonstrate how many die, and the moaning sounds dubbed over the silent capture. nothing looks like ketchup here dude. this gets more graphic as it moves along, looks like you left early in denial. you think this at 15:28 is fake? nope real suffering. blood is darker where its been pooling and thin bright right red drip lines. this is how blood looks. her jaw is completely shattered in wards. @@travisjohnson622
@@bradsanders407 24:46 imagen being shown this as a young driver in the early 70s when youve never seen a dead body before. top of the dudes skull and eyes are smashed in .. getting hit by a train is hard core
When I was a junior in high school (spring of 2005, to be exact) my class saw one of those staged drivers ed videos. A week later one of my classmates was killed in a very gruesome car accident. He was a known bad driver, was not wearing a seat belt, and was speeding around a sharp curve. By the grace of God his girlfriend lived, but he was ejected and crushed when the car flipped over. I believe that if our teachers had showed us one of these older, real videos, he might've been scared into altering his driving habits. Might've, that is. We'll never know. RIP Travis. We all miss you, even now.
I was 15 when I saw this film, way before gore movies and the internet. It was in a darkened, small auditorium, and I nearly passed out. Decades later I've never forgotten it. I thought, okay, I'll have a look to see if it's as bad as I remember. I'm now nauseous and feel unwell. It's not the gore, it's knowing that they're not actors, no CGI blood. Where we can see them gasping and hear them moaning, it's too much for me. I don't need to see any more, I know what's coming. I still remember it from the last time. And yes, it had a very strong impact on the way I drove, and, seat belts 100% of the time, for 100% of the occupants in any vehicle I drove.
I watched a film like this in junior high, back in 1963. I don't remember the film's name...but I've been an (overly?) cautious driver since I got my license back then. No accidents and no tickets. This film brought back memories of that film. Stay safe...and sane everyone.
Back in the 70's my friend became an Albulance driver (way before they were called E M S) He had only been on the job a short time after his training Attended a call a motorcyclist accident at an off ramp from a bridge when he got there a Policeman asked him to walk the off ramp about 200ft away he found the severed head of the motorcyclist (he over dosed 8mo later) R I P Buddy 🙏
Worst accident I ever saw was a pickup vs. a pedestrian in Auburn Washington in 1989. A little old man was slowly crossing the street in a crosswalk on a four lane thoroughfare. Cars in both directions stopped to let hime get across the street. We were in the left lane and there was nobody in the right lane. Just as the man passed in front of our car, a pickup truck came up behind us. But instead of stopping, he whipped around to the right and went past up. The pickup hit the man at about 30 mph. That wasn't even very fast by our standards but it was fast enough. The old man went flying, probably 20 feet or so. He went headfirst into the curb. He didn't look seriously injured. There was a little blood where he landed but other than that he looked ok. But he wasn't. He was not breathing when they put him in the ambulance. We found a blanket in somebody's car and civered him to keep him warm. Otherwise we didn't touch him. The medics were there within about 2 minutes. It did not look good. The poor man probably lived with his kids. He was just walking to the market to get a couple items. My wife, in likely a futile but sweet gesture, gathered up his milk, orange juice, bread and apples and stuck it in the ambulance with the man. Meanwhile, police were asking us what we saw. And just down the road a bit they had pulled the driver of the pickup away so they could talk to them. It was a kid. Seventeen years old. He was impatient. He whipped around behind us without bothering to check on why all these cars were stopped at the crosswalk. It was clearly the kid's fault. He struck a pedestrian in a crosswalk, severely injuring or killing this poor old man. I don't know what became of either the man or the kid. The old man was barely clinging to life. The kid who hit him at the very least would get a ticket for failing to stop. And if the old man did die he could be charged with a felony. Misdemeanor reckless driving at the least. I don't exactly what. But I am sure that no matter what the consequences were, that day will stay with the kid. He is likely in his late 40s or early 50s now. But I bet he still thinks about that day in 1989 every day and wishes he could have that day back. And I still get choked up thinking about how my wife picked up his groceries and put them with him in the ambulance. He was just out walking to the store to get some bread and orange juice. He did not know that he wouldn't be coming home that day. It was a senseless and tragic incident. An inexperienced driver got inpatient, swerved around to the right, and struck that poor old man who was walking to the market to get orange juice and bread.
Man that is terrible and I’m sorry y’all had to witness that. Your wife sounds like an amazing woman and such a sweetheart to collect his groceries for him and set them into the ambulance. I wish you guys peace and prosperity in the future.
The worst I saw was on the 405 freeway near Tukwila and Renton coming down from the Burien area back in like 1996, a biker on one of those crotch rockets slammed into the back of another vehicle due to traffic coming to a standstill and he was cruising at a very high rate of speed. People speed up and down the 405 all the time, a lot of people like to race that stretch of highway.
I remember driving with my parents up Interstate 65 between Louisville and Indianapolis about two years after it opened in the early sixties. Back then, the state placed crosses in the median at every location of a fatal accident. I remember counting around 70 crosses on that stretch of Interstate. Many people didn't know how to drive interstates back then, and many accidents were related to improper passing on open stretches of highway. Frankly, the crosses should come back - a stark reminder of what happens when drivers get distracted or, more recently, acton their road rage.
Our class saw it in 1979. We should have been ashamed of ourselves. When the good stuff started, we all started laughing and whooping it up. The teacher had to stop the film and yell at us.
Everyone that ever gets a license to drive, should be made to watch this, and videos like it for at least 3 days of drivers education. Excellent video ,thank you ❤
I’m 22, I’ve been driving since I was 16 and so have most of my friends. When all of us hit 21 i noticed a lot of them suddenly got a lot less uncomfortable with drunk driving; it’s shocked me when we’ve gone out to bars or clubs for the night, just how easily some of them are ready to have 6 drinks even though they’re supposed to be the DD, or to hop in the car of someone who’s clearly shitfaced. Some of these people even have friends and family who’ve died in accidents in ok I’m drunk drivers. I’d rather pay $30 for an Uber than get in a crash and spend the rest of my life paralyzed, and I’d sure as hell rather spend a few hours sobering up in my car than risk killing someone.
I am 22 and drank once after age 21 and it was only at home but didn't swallowed it spit it out I was using it for meat flavor. I make sure to have it away from driver and passengers from drinking it it was sealed to avoid DUI. I am not a beer person because of the taste.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823Not only in the ignition, there were instances of DUIng even when an owner enters his car parked nearby the house for some reason.
My father used to help a funeral parlor at various times when they were overloaded with work. One night he helped them collect a carload of teenagers after a crash that killed them all. He wouldn't talk about it other than to say what I just did ( more respectfully), but he raised holy hell if he thought any of us was acting irresponsibly with a vehicle.
My dad was a funeral director, got his license back in the early 60s. But he had to be a paramedic 1st, because they used the hearses a lot to respond to accident scenes. Since we either lived above the funeral home or in the housing provided, I've seen a lot of this. Right before I started drivers ed, my dad would get me up, take me to the embalming room, before clean up, and show me what happens if you are not a responsible driver.
Back in the early 70s, 2 young men were riding motorcycles, acting out behind an 18 wheeler. Once the truck driver slowed down, they decided to pass. Guess they never saw the other big RV headed towards them. Hit head on. 1 kid was literally shredded when he got thrown through a double barb wire fence. The other kid got the major impact, thrown against the 18 wheeler trying to stop, then rolled 50' landing in the deep ditch.
Sad part, the kid that went through the fence, his nose was found hanging off the fence. Shoes knocked off. Fingers missing. But the family demanded the nose be put back on, through a fit about his brand new shoes that were missing and demanded he look perfect for an open casket.
The kid in the ditch. It broke all the major bones in his body. He had to be rolled in sheets so they could get him out of the ditch. His parents, no open casket. They were too concerned about where his new watch went. Hmm, probably flew off when his had did.
I still remember the first fatal crash I responded to . Some idiot guy in his 40s driving a Z28 Camaro doing about 70 or 80 on a country road ran a stop sign and was hit by a dump truck at an intersection . The Camaro rolled twice before it came to rest on its t-roof and the driver was ejected . He had injuries to this head , neck , back and chest as well as his arms and legs and was beyond the point of trying to resuscitate . When I saw the body I tried not to puke but ended up later at our station . A half empty can of beer was found in his car and he had a .017 blood alcohol content when he died . The driver of the dump truck we transported to the hospital because he wanted to be checked out by a doctor and was clearly shaken up mentally .
They also yanked injured people out of wrecks without concern of causing more injuries. This was before EMTs, when injured people were just thrown in a hearse or police car and taken to the hospital, without any medical support on the way.
@@blueokieThey totally knew that you could catch diseases from blood, it wasn’t the Middle Ages. But this was before things like HIV and hepatitis C were widespread or even existed at all , so they just didn’t think there was much of a risk.
I remember this one. My wife was first on scene for toddler fatality MVA, ER nurse, always stops. Kid did not like to sit in the càr seat, parents not make him, she said he was broken in half. She sort of went off on the parents with minor injuries in the front seat for killing their kid. CHP guys had to drag her away, told her to chill out or go in the back of the cruiser. She has some pretty horrible stories
Jesus. That’s horrific. I use to work for ER doctors. I took care of all of their charts for billing. I read some pretty horrific things over my 15 years doing that job. Can’t imagine actually witnessing it.
@@deniserossiter1059 Just be glad TV does not have smellovision. Necrotic bowel is way worse than a gangrenous foot, for example, but not as bad if you put something that smells on your mask. Peppermint seems to work best
I took drivers ed in 82. I wanted to get my license at 15 so I had to take an extended 6 month drivers ed class starting at 14 1/2. If I recall, it was about 3 hours every day after school. The last 45 mins or so of every class was films like this. I recall one that was made in the late 70's. It wasn't old in 1982. The film quality was high and it was very graphic. I somehow related to that one a little more. The kids were dressed like we dressed, they were in cars like we rode in and saw on the road every day. There was one scene with a young girl in a Pontiac GrandAm, exactly like my mom's car. That, really hit home for me.
Oh, I remember this film, the school showed it to us back in 1980, right before lunch. Needless to say, not many of us wanted lunch that day. This film seemed a bit more gruesome back then, now after 43 years of being desensitized with all that one can see on the internet, horror movies and just life in general, it's not near as gruesome, still gruesome, but it doesn't turn my stomach like it did back then. The scenes I remember and which disturbed me the most were the drunk driver that got thrown from his car, caught in the wheel well and drug dozens of feet, the elderly couple that got burned up in the car, and the train collision aftermath. The train aftermath is still the worst one of the bunch and it made be very careful at railroad crossings.
"He never felt better when the darkness swallowed him and he won't have another chance, but you do." I'll make sure his words will be tattooed onto my memory
I remember in the 1970's (?) they used to have on the news the "death toll" on the highways around the U.S. I miss that!! This video is awesome! And it was back in the day when cars didn't have seatbelts, so you were toast if you got into a crash. This is why I drive a Subaru, because I'll probably walk away from a crash.
Reminds of CLifford Johnson, the man who was severely burned in a nightclub fire; Clifford Johnson went back into the fire at the Boston Cocoanut Grove Lounge... ...no fewer than 4 times in search of his date who unbeknown to him, had safely escaped already. Mr Johnson suffered extensive 3rd degree burns over 55% of his body, and 1/2 of that was burned to the bone. Johnson survived the fire, becoming the most severely burned person ever to survive his injuries at the time. After almost two years of torture and pain in a hospital, several hundred operations and skin grafts, he married his nurse and returned to his home state. Mr Johnson and his new wife went home to Missouri, soon he found steady work delivering fuel oil. On Dec. 20, 1956, just 14 years after the fire he survived, Johnson's truck skidded off a road near Sumner, Mo., and burst into flames. Trapped, he burned to death in the cab of his truck in the fire." Was he speeding? was he not paying attention? he was driving the truck in a way it slid off the icy road and overturned.
Alot of people contribute survival rates in car crashes to seat belts alone when comparing now to the 50s and 60s. But they forget that there were 2 things that didn't exist in the 50s and 60s. Those thimgs were the modern EMS system and the Jaws of life extrication tools. Because of the advent of the modern EMS and the invention of extrication tools, these things allow us to better extrication patients and to stabilize patients at the scene then transport to the hospital or helicopter. But even with all of these things a crash bad enough will still kill.
I was a medical assistant for 10 years and I'm familiar with how hard you work. I love nurses. I really do appreciate you. I never intend to be rude but may I ask how young you are?
One year ago I was involved in two very bad car accidents due to the fault of the other drivers. The first totaled my 2016 Fit and the second heavily damaged my 2019 CR-V and sent me to the hospital. I saw both coming and couldn't do anything. Stay sharp and pay attention people.
It sounds like you still might have some doubt about not doing everything you could. Neither wreck was your fault. I hope you weren't injured due to other driver's poor driving.
@@joesmoe71 Cars do have air bags in all sorts of places now, but I'm still convinced that the best of armor (or the best of safety equipment) won't protect a dumb enough idiot against stupidity.
" Before Ralph Nader's 1965 book, Unsafe at Any Speed, car dashboards were usually made of metal. Seat belts were available only at exotic auto parts stores, where they were expensive and customers had to bolt them to the car's floorboards. Even at low speeds, a car wreck could propel passengers into the metal dashboard or snap the driver's neck on the metal steering wheel. At mid-speed wrecks (say, 20 miles an hour), passengers could be thrown into the windshield, which was made of "safety glass" that could chisel a passenger's face and body. Car doors were not attached to the car's body firmly enough to withstand collision forces, and would often pop open or off in an accident, which would instantly make the car's frame (and the passengers inside) much more likely to be crumpled by the crash. Nader's book focused mostly on the Chevrolet Corvair, but many of the problems detailed were applicable in every auto showroom and highway smash-up. The response to Unsafe at Any Speed led Congress to pass the Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. And since then, everything that adds the word "safety" to the word "automotive" -- seat belts, airbags, even the idea of manufacturers' recalls, or requiring crash tests -- can be traced to that act of Congress, and to Nader's book." Source: NNDB.com
I truly thank God for Ralph Nader! He was tops in the field of safety, and really stuck it to Vehicle makers that, early on, made such unsafe vehicles! Many, many improvements later, Vehicles are much safer to drive...as long as they don't have a careless imbecile behind the steering wheel! Strange, though, isn't it...that is, that people still drink & drive, use cellphones, loud music, & entertainment of any sort...all of which can, if improperly used, kill a person or persons. I guess that, in some cases, the only way to learn not to drive distracted for some people, is that their carelessness can lead to the injury (or injuries), or even certain death to themselves, or somebody else. Tragically, some people never learn safe driving habits, & then, suddenly, it's too late!!!
I give Unsafe at Any Speed a mixed review. Yes, cars were designed poorly in the 1960s. Cars handled poorly. The brakes were horrible. The tires offered poor traction. With the adoption of disc brakes, radial tires, anti-sway bars, and stiffer suspensions, driving became safer over the years. The fatality rate in 1968 was 5.5 deaths per 100 mvmt. By 1988, the death rate was 2.0. Today, the death rate is 1.1-1.2 death per 100 mvmt. This is in part due to the sheer volume of cars on our highway system. Inducements to drive on interstate type freeways has lowered the death rate as well. LIke all things in life, however, there is such a thing as too much. Today's cars have too many distractions and too many blind spots resulting from compliance to FMVSS 208. As a result, fatality rates have increased in recent years from a low of 1.0 deaths per mvmt in 2011. We need to take a critical look at some of these driver assist systems, excessive use of touchscreens in vehicles have contributed to an increase in the fatality rate. In addition, our interstate highway system is approaching maximum capacity. As it approaches capacity, the chances for collisions increases as flow conflict points extend into rural areas that formerly had fewer accidents. Capacity collapse needs to be addressed through old fashioned highway building and road improvements. The burden can no longer be put on auto manufacturers or drivers.
Ralph Nader is just a shill and lobbyist for whoever signs the check. The only reason he went after GM was because of a personal grudge. Were there problems with the Corvair? Absolutely!! Any motor vehicle of that time period could be picked apart for multitudes of safety and design flaws,he just focused on the Corvair specifically for personal reasons. Ralph Nader is a muckraker and self serving mouthpiece for the Democratic Party who offers his service to the highest bidder 🤡
Something about these old clips and documentary series hits different. You can also see that some accidents were hardcore because the cars then were built like tanks . This definitely hit me as it's tragic how some perished through no fault of their own.
We watched this and another video during driver's ed in the 80s. Parents do not want their kids to see stuff like this today, so they do not show it. And we have more accidents today than ever due to cell phone usage. These videos need to be shown to new drivers more now than ever before.
Dunno if we have more accidents or not, but driving is way safer. If you compare the death rate per miles driven, there were more than twice as many deaths 50 years ago as today.
We were required to watch Red Asphalt and write a summary on it when I was in driver's ed, about 7 or so years back. I continue to advocate for these types of films. It really fixes the "it won't happen to me" attitude.
It’s so crazy that so many cars during that time didn’t have seatbelts. I remember my grandparents telling me they never wore seatbelts growing up because most cars didn’t have them
Most of our early cars had only lap belts. My parents had a 1966 Volvo which had two separate belts for the front passengers. One lap belt and a separate shoulder belt.
As a retired fire chief, during my career I have taken part in extrications of people in similar situations to every scene shown in this film. Many of them were people that I knew. In today's world, if this film was shown to every young person before they reached driving age there would be such a response from parents that their babies should never be exposed to these scenes it would make nationwide news reports. Sometimes life's realities should not be hidden from young adults. Many of them will eventually be some of these victims. Human bodies versus vehicles lose every time.
The mother driving the station wagon reminded me of my dingbat mother who almost got me killed three times. She was a horrible driver. One time we came around a bend and at the end was a train crossing with the arms down. She was hauling ass but was able to stop before the train hit us. The second time we went careening across a taxi way inside the NAS base in town. She didn’t see the C130 coming at us and she barely missed being run over. There were four of us kids with her. The third time she was driving my grandparents and me to their house and she ran a stop sigh when we were hit by a truck hauling a trailer. She clipped the back of the trailer and we ended up in the ditch. Nobody was hurt in any of those wrecks, thank goodness.
Years ago I was driving a 24’ box truck from Toledo to Columbus. I was on 71 south about 10 miles from Bowling Green. It was raining so hard that in a fully loaded truck I was only going 45. Some guy in a Crown Vic flew by me in the fast lane. An SUV was getting on to the highway and a semi moved over to let them on. The semi had no idea there was a car going that fast behind him. The Crown Vic swerved to the right lane and then lost the back end. He hit the center hill and went airborne. While I the air a semi coming north t-boned him and basically blew the Crown Vic up. Even though it was raining so hard the car was on fire when it came to rest and wasn’t put out. I stopped my truck and grabbed my extinguisher and ran over. Someone was already there. He didn’t stop me in time and when I got to the car the guys head was laying on the front seat and his body was outside the car. People just think they can drive better than they can
Saw this film in 1978 as part of our Driver's Ed curriculum at Summit High School in Summit, New Jersey. Just as impactful today as it was 44 years ago.
I wish they'd make Driver's Ed mandatory again. I saw most of these films in 78 right after I got my permit. Reality leaves no room for error was the tag line for one of them.
I remember required driver education in class and behind the wheel with the driver instructor (who has his own set of brakes, by the way,). It was a good class learned a lot, got some time behind the wheel. Ohio used to require driver's education, but not anymore. Anyways, my point was the instructor didn't require you to watch the infamous "Signal Thirty" another driver's Ed film from Ohio State Patrol as long as we had a A average on tests and attended every class session. I was so paranoid about watching Signal 30, you bet I followed all requirements and was exempt. I've eventually viewd Signal Thirty, but honestly this film is ten times worse as for gore and scary drama. I doubt many young drivers would not be laughing at the end no matter how desensitized to extreme violence they have been exposed to. This film still holds up.
I have provided assistance at two different fatalities in my life, one auto and the other motorcycle. Watching people die when you can do no more for them takes a little piece of your soul.
The best way to have these films work on kids is- have them watch it alone. They can't hide from reality through jokes, they won't be distracted by the reactions of others, and they won't be trying to monitor their own reactions according to their peers social expectations. Just a young person- with this film- watching alone or with someone they are able to emotionally open up to. Then, after- to talk about what they felt while watching. Like, physical gut feelings...That's gonna be key- our guts use cortisol to warn us of possible danger. It makes it clench and feel "a drop". Or uneasy. That's gut instinct, and we should always take note of it- our senses pick up everything around us a split second before our conscious awareness picks up on it- and we can often notice things with our senses that our conscious mind doesn't. Like- the hair standing up on your neck when you see a dark shadow out the corner of your vision, and "feel" like someone else is behind you. That's our hindbrain activating the stay aware and alert signal
I truly appreciate this video being uploaded. Young people need to face reality when they’re given access to a 5,000 lb weapon and unleashed on society with little knowledge of how much damage they can actually do with it. Videos like these, while horrific to watch, are invaluable if they can save future lives. Also want to give a shout-out to first responders. I cannot imagine the horrors they see on a daily basis 💙
I remember watching Blood Flows Red on the Highway during drivers ed in the 81! This is when it was still done for free during the summer at the high school. Half the class got sick, it was mental. The rest of us were pretty enthralled by the incredible wreckage.
I want to get a classic car and this film isn’t stopping me from getting one but sure thing is this film has encouraged me even more not drink and drive, text, no nothing these crashes are brutal, rest in peace everyone in these crashes
I know someone who recently gave up as a paramedic battling depression induced by the profession.. one story they told me was when they got called to the scene of car collision on a truck she asked the guy where the patient was and he just said "He is in the drivers seat".. so she walks up to the car window and puts her hand on his shoulder and looked up only to see half his head completely sliced off. My heart goes out to anyone who has to respond to these accidents.
My father took us to an actual wrecked car were three teenagers were drinking and driving and they got killed I will never forget the smell of that car. By the way I'm 63 and haven't even had a speeding ticket I'd say it worked.
These kinds of films need to be shown in driver's ed today. Especially today because EVERYONE thinks they're invulnerable. I'm a truck driver of 30+ years and I have seen in real life everything in this film and more. Nothing makes a person lose faith in the intelligence of the human race than seeing a 6 year old being literally scraped off the pavement. God rest her soul.
Insightful and educational real film. These should still be shown today to all drivers! Amazing to think there was no medical equipment on ambulances back then. Just scoop and go! ( probably causing more injuries )
Summary: "Driving is a very serious business. Deadly serious." There are so many lines in this film that are not only scary but factual, and this is one of them.
When I realized that they weren't dummies, this is real footage of the dead, my stomach heaved. I don't mind watching reenactments, but I didn't expect to watch the actual footage! This is gonna haunt me for some time. This feels like an episode from the series "The Faces of Death"
There were a lot of films like this. "Signal 30" and "Wheels of Tragedy" and the first "Red Asphalt" are a few, then there's "Mechanized Death." There are probably more. I saw "Blood on the Windscreen," but they edited the death images to look bloodier (though they didn't do a very convincing job at it.)
My father always told me, that when I am late, there is no need to inhumanly hurry because I am already late and shouldn't risk my life over lost time. I still think he is a genius
@@bassnbrass9272 Similarly, I was nearly -side-swiped- side-rammed by someone coming on the highway from an onramp. They were going maybe 80 MPH in a 55 zone. I narrowly avoided it for my habit of looking in mirrors often, then braking hard. (No one was behind me.)
Yup I told my kid man when he was in high school, just call us there will be no judgement. We want you to live. He did. Went to pick up him and 3 of his friends all of whom admitted they would never have called their parents.
"Genius"...or literally just common sense? 🤷🏽♂️
I enjoy speeding about 20 or 30 over the limit I also am able to keep my surroundings in check and believe their are no such things as blinds spots. I can drive anything perfectly. I can see if someone's gonna pull out I. Front of me before you can say hey listen
Mines always said if you leave early, you'll always be on time. Make it so you never have to hurry in the first place, and you'll never need to rush
My father always told me it's better to be 20 minutes late down here, than 20 years early up there. I have passed it on to my children.
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Maybe you're not early and this is the way your supposed to go?
My father said similar.
Better 10 minutes late in this workday than 1 minute early in the next.
JESUS loves us all, but he is a righteous judge and sin is still wrong even though he loves us. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."❤
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As gruesome as it is, I think all people who are learning to drive should see this film.
As an aging Gen X-er who daily witnesses the suicidally reckless driving habits of the younger generations, I wholeheartedly agree.
The bizarre organ music freaked me out.
Lol, people don't care. They all think they're the "main character". Drivers, of all ages, have been getting worse. So many tailgaters out there these days.
Car safety was an after thought back then… hell Nash came out with seatbelts in 48, but car companies pushed back for years 😢
@jakobquick6875 Yup, they were all death traps. Protruding metal objects everywhere inside the passenger compartment. Rear view mirrors, door/window handles, gear shift, dashboards, no safety glass, no crumple zones, seat belts, or collapsesable steering columns.
As a long haul trucker with millions of miles behind me i plead with you bring this education back.
Half of this generation won't listen.
@@MultiHondaa If it touches even a few drivers young or old to correct their selfish behavior it's definitely worth it..
@@Meshell246 indeed
Need this in the UK instead on speed awareness driving course, they don’t work .
Totally agree, I have seen horrible accidents in my days of hauling. People don’t pay attention until it’s to late
Even though the film is of vintage footage, it is still a very powerful film.
Driver's ed instructor here. They don't make movies like this much anymore and it's too bad. The kids need to see this, but from an era they can relate to, and without the painfully cheesy narration and horror film motif. Just simple uncensored clips of the scenes with dry facts-only narration of what happened, that would be perfect. Too many can't-happen-to-me attitudes out there, they need to see what DOES happen every day.
My wife and I agree 100%. Too many drivers do not even see the carnage as a possibility. Your description of how to produce an updated version is perfect.
I actually think that the narration, bad music, and bad lighting end up making the film creepier and more impactful than slick filmmaking would.
@@blindlemon9 Many ways to look at it I guess. To me, the pure reality.of these incidents is enough. Creepy enhancements and slick film work.cheapen it, make it seem less real, turn it into entertainment. Crash investigators do thorough photo and video documentation to have a factual record. Clips of those images with a dry narration describing the people involved, the facts of the crash and the mistakes made, over an audio background of ambient sound from a crash scene-muffled conversations, radio chatter, firetrucks idling, airbrakes engaging, tow truck winch, power tools running, metal being cut. Like, this happens so regularly it's not even special. A colleague who was a retired LEO once told me about arriving at the scene of a single-car crash back in the 90s... Three dead teens, two of them ejected, one of the ejected in two pieces, Smashing Pumpkins still jamming on the car stereo. That doesn't need any enhancement. Just show how it was and tell the story.
@@DrewJmsnin Germany they show stil real footages from firefighters or ambulance in driver ed schools
@@blindlemon9no; this would have the same impact as a horror movie. Faces of death and horror movies have never worked. The real unedited, no american cheese is only thing that would help. All this overdramatic - extra cheese takes away from realism
I wholeheartedly believe that showing videos of car crashes can save lives ...my husband was going to work when a drunk driver crashed into his truck going over one hundred mph ...the car behind my husband was a mom , her boyfriend , her two sons and daughter ...the drunk driver had just got out of prison for DUI , his wife gave him a sports car celebrating his release from jail ...he had just been stopped for another DUI , and his attorney got the ticket fixed ...the drunk driver was killed , the mom and 6 yr.old daughter were also killed ...my husband spent a year in and out of the hospital , had eleven
surgeries and became disabled ...there was blood everywhere and i have pictures I wanted to be shown in Drivers education , to show the damage to the three vehicles involved with a huge beer can crushed into the wreckage , I was told it was to traumatic to show teenagers ... Its been close to fifteen years and i can close my eyes and still see 😢the beercan crushed in the door of the drunk driver ...this was a huge fail from getting out of prison, receiving a sports car , getting a DUI after being released from prison for multiple DUIs , that ticket was fixed , then a country bar serving him when he was drunk , then buying the can of beer in a store just up from the fatal accident site ...so many things that shouldn't have happened ...preventing and stopping just one of these could have saved a mom and her sweet inocent 6 yr old daughter ...just thinking of all the pain felt by so many is heartbreaking ...lives lost and lives changed by drinking and driving ...
Money lets you out of trouble in the United States. People who think this is horrible should not be voting for people who get out of trouble with money.
是这样的，八十年代中国直接就会在事故高发地区挂上牌子--写上“去年此处死亡xx人，今年已死亡yy人”，还有的会直接挂上事故照片的大幅海报。让人触目惊心，最后小心驾驶。
现在的交通安全教育和那时候比简直是胎教片，根本起不到警示作用。
I was on checkpoint duty in Bosnia when a drunk driver crashed into our CV-90. At first I thought it was deliberate act but when nobody answered our calls I slowly approached the car , opening the car door the smell of alcohol hit me. The car was of some Eastern European make, so there was no safety Features. The driver had killed his family, a baby had been smashed against the front window, the wife had a fractured skull with her brain hanging out, the to girls in the backseat also had severe head and chest injuries .One of them died while the medic tried to save her, but it was too late. The driver had been impaled on the steering wheel and had no lower jaw. The smell of blood and some kind of plum spirit (it’s called Slivovitz) will stay with me until I die. Because of this instance I’m not able to drink alcohol and haven’t touched a drop for over 25 years.
Thank you for sharing the story.
Might save a life...or more than one.
maybe
There is no glory in driving drunk, only shame.
I have no respect for drunk drivers.
@@puppiesarepower3682especially these days when getting an Uber is so easy. There’s no excuse anymore.
Yep. I had a friend who is a tow truck driver. He was trying to explain to me what it was like to try to put a scalp back on a little seven-year-old girl who screaming, bloody murder. Her parents guts smeared all over the place. And the two highway patrol man in the bushes puking their guts out.
I'm a farmer, and farm with a couple of small older tractors and 2 teams of draft horses. The quiet country roads are getting so busy now and everyone drives so fast. It is all blind hills here where I live. City people drive like they own the road, and just over the hill there I am a sitting duck with 4 horses on a piece of farm equipment going to the field, and they start honking and roar past while swearing at me through the open window. These narrow roads farm equipment takes up 3/4 of the road, no shoulder or ditch, just trees and nowhere to pull off. If people would just be patient and wait a few minutes.
Unfortunately even after watching a video like this, there will still be people who will say "This will never happen to me".
As a police officer for 20 years, I wholeheartedly believe videos like this - or even this one - be shown to young drivers and before every other driver renews their licence. In a world of censorship and PC, respect for reality is lost.
Totally agree. I don't think anyone, kids and adults included, should be granted a driver's license unless they have seen what a mess on the highway looks like.
Here's a good idea. Up the age limit to get a license. Require testing that actually means a goddamn thing. Charge $1500 to take the test. Watch how you don't need to have silly videos anymore. Shit in. Shit out. But hey, it's the land of the free where anyone can do whatever they want. So watch your silly video.
100% agree
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They need to make a 2021 version of this and make everyone receiving a license watch it
Empty out the safe spaces? Not sure the fragility of recently weaned 20 to 30 year olds could handle it. Attorneys would be salivating over the potential class action suits. Pardon the pun but .. sounds like an accident waiting to happen. Speaking of space spaces look at YT .. censoring of "offensive" parts of historical photographs while the Yoga channels continue to showcase girls in pooornographic poses in the thumbnails
They won't, they only care about the registration, license and others fees they get for giving out licenses to anyone who can breathe.
@@up0820Yet tens of millions a year is spent on road safety awareness.
Why? They’d just blur censor 90 percent of it so no ‘’trauma’’ to viewers nowadays.
In the madness of recent years they eliminated behind-the-wheel training !! Also new arrivals who are illiterate to language and laws are already driving on the roads.
As a truck driver for twenty years in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's I have seen a lot of accidents and aftermaths of accidents. They are bad, but the one that hurt me the worst was seeing the guy burn in his van. I still tear up thinking about it.
Van photos or it didn't happen.
Not everyone had cameras in the 80's as they do today.@@JohnnyDanger36963
@@JohnnyDanger36963god u ppl are sickening
Sry u witnessed that. Hope ur doing well.
I’m so sorry you had to see that. Take care of yourself. ❤
My job today is fire rescue primary response team and the car accidents I go to on a regular basis are just as haunting as this film.the hardest hitting thing for me is when families turn up during the job.i can here family members screaming for there lost or injured one whilst retrieving bodies or cutting them out it’s crazy and trust me the screaming is on another level.
In May of 2022, I had just picked my three grandchildren up from school and we were headed to McD's. Traffic was heavy and we were stopped. In my rearview mirror I saw a red Jeep Patriot that was coming fast, and was not going to be able to stop. I had just enough time to tell the grandies we were going to get hit, and try to be calm, when she slammed into us and the rear glass on my RAV4 exploded. I was knocked out. I thank God every time I think about this that my grandchildren had just minor injuries and some trauma. My youngest granddaughter still won't ride ride with me. I had a pretty good concussion and damage to my neck, back, wrist and knee. My oldest granddaughter was twisted around, looking out the back at the oncoming car, so she was sore for several days. My grandson, in the second seat had a cut from glass. My youngest granddaughter, also in the back seat, was traumatized. Well, we all were. The driver of the Jeep had just gotten her learners permit, was speeding, had a passenger, which is not legal, was on a road her parents told her not to be on as there was too much traffic for a new driver, and, she was not looking at the road. They had no injuries except for the ass chewing her dad no doubt gave her. I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt now. We were buckled in that day, for sure. Thank you for reading all this, guess Grammie here has a little trauma, too.
I'm glad you all lived!
God bless you!
It's the worst when it's 100% the other driver's fault!
Do you happen to remember if you had your foot on or off the break on impact?
Was there a car in front of you?
Sorry about that stupid new driver...new drivers have the most accidents followed by the people who don't realize the have lost the ability, sight, reflex etc.
I had a few accidents in the first 3-4 years of driving and not one since.
My pet peeve is people passing on the right at high speed.
So dangerous.
That officer’s reaction at 7:56 says more than a thousand words ever could .
He looked like he saw a ghost.
I came upon a rear end collision about 40 years ago where a drunk was driving about 100 mph and hit a family as they pulled out of a steak house onto the road. The families car burst into flames and I saw the bodies burning inside the car, then watched as the firemen and police pulled out the charred remains.
Later that night they opened up a private club (It was closed for the night already) that was in town for the responders to go and have a few drinks and decompress. I bet that night stayed with them for the rest of their lives.
Panic attack
Puzzy
Indeed.
Love that line about trying to use your car as a time machine, to take you back in time 15 minutes so you won't be late for work. I've never heard that one before.
The further back in time you go, the more articulate the speech.
It's called "making time" on the road
I liked that as well… definitely resonates with a person doesn't it? Five years ago you posted this…wow.😮
What's really funny is often speeding doesn't save you more than a few minutes regardless. If you're running late, you're already late. Just leave earlier or take the L and move on in life instead of killing yourself/others.
Yep, when I was MUCH younger, if I was running late for work in the morning, I'd always reason to myself, 'well I'll make up for it on my drive in to work ' Amazed at the stupidity of it now looking back.
That officer at 8:00 is visibly shaken. Working hard to free someone before they die must take a greater immediate toll than working to free a dead body.
The boy lived. He was very lucky.
If that's how much a person can be shaken after witnessng a near-death experience, I don't want to imagine how would one feel seeing an actual fatality.
@@MaximumHeresey Hope you never do
It stays with you for quite a while.@@MaximumHeresey
He wasn't shaking. He was catching his breath.
That was one of the most troubling pieces of media I have ever sat through.
I utterly commend the makers for their uncompromising message delivery.
Incredible public information film.
"He probably never felt better before the darkness swallowed him"
Damn.
"The darkness swallowed him", that is a very poetic and deep way to describe his death. I gotta say, I will remember this quote...
That was a macabre way to describe it for sure lol
Reporter's and commentator's back then were more passionate and direct about how they said things. It always seemed like they was telling a epic story compared today's reporter's.
@@mr.smellgood2794 Besides that, the narration in this film doesn't need hot air to keep it afloat. It's just dead on straight with the facts as they really are.
My mother and I were first on scene of a horrific accident 50 years ago before car manufacturing safety, seat belts, and air bags. When side roads crossed I-59 - no longer allowed. An accident caused by a black mustang that passed us going well over 100 mph and slamming into the side of a station wagon so hard it caused it to flip many times. When I leaned over to look under the overturned car, a woman and a (looked like about) 12 year old girl were dead. I’ve never forgotten the scene, my shock and nausea, my desperate run to the nearest house (no cell phones), yelling at the older man who answered the door about the station wagon with a lady and girl wrecked and dead and police needed to come. His face contorted as he ran out of the house while the rest of the people in the house ran out toward the interstate screaming and a young woman holding the kids back from running there too. I had come upon the first house and the station wagon came from it, I found out later the older man was the woman’s father and girl’s grandfather and among the people who came to the street only to collapse were the woman’s husband, sister and other relatives. When I got back to the accident scene, my mother was holding the woman’s mother and there was a lot of onlookers. She told me to do what I could to get the others from trying to get them out of the car. I don’t know what I said but I got a blanket out of the trunk and hung it over the side of the car so people would guilt looking at them. We stayed until after the police and fire arrived and gave the police how the accident happened. He told us the driver of the mustang (across the median and far down the street, also overturned) was dead. What strikes me is that today all of them would probably have walked away from that accident.
That would definitely be a traumatic experience. I have witnessed a couple horrific scenes myself. Only thing is that I don't think even modern vehicles could prevent death with a 100 plus mph crash. I could be wrong. Stay safe and warm.
Some of the wagon people may have survived, if they were not on the side of the car that was struck. But the Mustang Driver would be killed or maimed at that speed, even now.
@@garylefevers If it was over 100 MPH, the occupants in the car that got T-boned would still be dead, but it would depend for the fast driver - that driver might survive. There was a wreck in August or September 2022 where a Nurse, she rammed 2 vehicles in Los Angeles above 80 MPH, and she killed 5 or 6 people in a fireball that consumed both cars (she hit 2 cars) very quickly. I think one of the women who died was pregnant, but I might be wrong.
The driver survived, and probably went to prison.
@@unconventionalideas5683then it would be up to the seat belts to hold them onto the seat as the car rolled. Believe it or not the seat belts back then were very fragile and would probably have torn or the buckles would've fallen apart and the occupants would be thrown around inside the car or possibly ejected from the car. Look up "small car crashes! (1972)" on TH-cam if you want to see car crash tests where the seat belt tears.
It's not safer today than 50 years ago despite the advancement of safety devices, for the simple reason that more people drive more often and greater distances. Hence, the per trip and per capita death rate of today (44,000 deaths per year) is about the same 50 years ago (17,000 deaths per year).
I’m 22 and never been involved in a serious car accident, although I feel as if I really needed to see this tonight. I’ve recently brought another motorbike that’s much faster than my previous ones and I’ll be the first admit I haven’t taken safety seriously lately. This should be shared around as much as possible to young or new drivers
There's a reason why ER personnel call motorcycles, donor-cycles. Even if you aren't killed, you don't want to end up in a wheelchair forever.
Last year someone near and dear to me died in a motorcycle accident and 8 months prior to his death he was in a motorcycle accident and had to have dental implants and had to heal from other injuries. Please be careful.
Great rid of it.
Your comments reminded me of when I got my first motorcycle (I've never had an accident or dropped my bike in 45 years of riding). When I was getting the motorcycle, the guy selling it wouldn't sell it to me until I could prove/demonstrate that I was a safe driver (rider). He checked me out thoroughly before he sold me the bike.
Also -- when I was in the Air Force, all motorcycle riders were required to take a motorcycle safety course. While I was taking the course, the instructor asked if anyone checked/inspected their bike before riding it. Mine was the only hand that went up. I told him that I check my bike every time I get on it, even if I had been riding it only five minutes earlier. I told him that that was how I was raised to ride a motorcycle, and to always ride safely. He said that I was definitely the exception rather than the rule as far as safety goes.
Invest in a motorcycle safety course. You'll never regret it.
who cares
I ride a motorcycle, I watch these videos at least once a month to remind me to take it slow and be careful.
I wish some of the punks around here were exposed to these videos.
They think they're super cool on their "crotch rockets", doing wheelies and such.
However, in Oct. of this year, there were three separate motorcycle accidents in a one-week period. NO ONE had on a helmet.
it's not you that you have to worry about
My brother rides, but his motto is "Live to ride" or something like that. I took lessons in Miami, but leave the 2 wheelers to him; his work lets him ride different kinds. In a 3rd world country!
Two wheels on the ground, stay safe mate
I was lucky enough to survive on my bike when a lady pulled out in front of me. I was wearing protective gear but I still ended up with broken bones and surgery. I'm still trying to get the courage to get back on. Please people! Pay attention! We just want to enjoy our ride.
I was a Paramedic for a good number of years. This film shows the results accurately. I know the smell of burnt human flesh. Use your seatbelt, stay alert, and drive according to the road / weather conditions while obeying the law.
Thanks for your service.
"Driving is a very serious business."
He's got that right!
Very powerful, impactful film!
Everyone getting their driver's license should see this.
I will NEVER forget a "commercial" I saw the last weekend of June, 1971. I was watching the Orioles playing the Red Sox in Boston on either WBAL Channel 2 or WJZ Channel 13 that Saturday night. They had taken a commercial break when suddenly the screen went dark. Then, just as suddenly, there was the screeching of tires and vehicles violently colliding. Then there were psychedelic videos of people being pulled from mangled vehicles. The videos contained flashes of the "real deals" in "living" color. Not a word was spoken. They proceeded to show areal footage of a funeral. A skull and crossbones appeared and "zoomed in" on the screen. It was then that someone finally spoke. In a hideously chilling tone of voice a question was asked: "WHOOOOO'S NEXT?"
Wow. Seriously.
I remember that ad...I think it was channel 2 which was WMAR if memory serves...WBAL is channel 11.
farpointgamingdirect do you remember the name of the psa?
Brutal, but effective.
I find weird creepy old PSAs like that very fascinating. Now I want to see it. Along with “House of The Hemophiliac” and the 1974 version of “Hate Hurts You”
The matter-of-fact narrator describing the "wild, hurling dance of death..." as a camera closes in on a crashed skull! Now THAT was filmmaking!
Dang. It was miraculous that 19 yr old survived that crash.
My uncle was RCMP for many years .We asked him once if he thought about the arrests he had made .He had had a few whiskeys , and talked about policing . He said he never wasted a minute thinking about " punks and drunks " , But he could never forget all the dead kids he had to pull out of wrecked cars . RIP uncle Patrick , I know it haunted him .
When I was in high school, we were shown Death on the Highways and Signal 30 just before prom. That was in 1963 and 1964. Those films were disturbing then and they still are now. Wow.
In the fall of 1989 my husband had to go to a party, I said to not drive home to stay the morning. The next morning my dad was woken up by the county sheriff 😔 to tell him that my husband had died in an accident. I always worried about a DWI because of the financial drain. I never thought about him having an accident 😢 so this movie brings many memories back.😢
dont ya hate when tell them dont drive and they do anyway!! and say oh I'm fine to drive sorry that happen to you life is hard and it seems to get harder as we age
Back in the late 80s near where I live a car with six of my future wife's classmates was being driven at a high rate of speed on a dark October night. The driver missed a curve, went off the left side of the road, and struck a brick gate post at a cemetery entrance. The gate post shattered, and as the car rode up over the stump of it, the car's gas tank was ruptured. The middle back seat passenger was the only one wearing her seat belt and was able to escape out the broken back window. One of the occupants was killed on impact, but the other four sustained injuries to the point they could not escape. The girl tried to pull her friends out, despite being injured herself, but was forced back by the flames and had to listen as four of her friends burned to death. All for the thrill of speed. Folks, if you want a thrill, if you crave adrenaline, go to an amusement park. It's a whole lot cheaper than a funeral.
No parent should have to bury or cremate a child.
That’s awful.
My dad went 200 kph on a straight on a hill on the highway but stopped because the tire migh5 have blown
Thats why we have race tracks and drag strips. Can get that rush of speed safely as possible. Obviously isnt perfectly safe, but chances of dying are much slimmer and you wont be hurting anyone else which is the most important for me. I love racing but my biggest fear is hurting my passenger or another driver, and that thought keeps me tame. I do some spirited driving at times but i would never go to the limit like im on a track. Time and place for everything
@@bobbyheffley4955 Not being funny, but it sounds like they were already cremated by the accident.
The ‘70’s must have been wild. You pick up a stranger that you don’t know, let them drive your car while you nap.
They were living in a sitcom
I think that you mean the early ‘60s in Ohio.
So stupid.
@@blindlemon9
1959...so 65 years ago,
before all cars had seat belts and it was the law to wear them.
Vehicle safety,
First aid,
Trauma medicine,
have ALL come a LONG way!
Thank goodness!
Thank God!
But people are still finding a way around all the rules.
@@XANSEM nowadays peoples doing lot of more Dangerous and even dumber stuff for a Internet challenge. Remember the car breaks in tiktok. Teens break into Cars and steal it, there are even reports in the news about this Trend.
I watched this movie 52 years ago at a driver education course at the State Police headquarters. It sure made an impression on a young me. It should still be shown in D.E. today, but peoples heads would spin off if it were to be shown.
Our DE teacher was a ww2 combat vet, and taught us very well, but he scissored out some of the worst gore in the film and fixed it with scotch tape, bless his heart.
Yeah, back in those days, they taught driver's ed as part of high school and showed us this.
they never teach this stuff anymore
Whenever I was in high school I believe this was in 1998 but the VW Beetle had been made available to buy new again and my friend Gavin's mom bought one.
A yellow one and it was a beautiful little car but it was also pretty fast for it being so small. It had a manual transmission & if you knew how to drive a stick it really didn't matter if they had alot of horsepower or not. You could make any vehicle with a stick shift perform like it was a muscle car....
Gavin loved that car and he loved driving fast and one afternoon my sister came found me at a friend's house and told me Gavin wrecked his mom's car coming back home from school that day.
His carelessness cost him his life and he was only 17. Not only his life but his younger sister's friend who was 14 (Natalie) and his younger sister KK who barely survived the crash. Gavin was going over 100+mph and failed to negotiate a curve and smashed into a concrete drain pipe and smashed the VW Beetle *(just like a bug would whenever it hits the windshield) I know someone is going to comment something to that effect if anyone even reads this but the point is that my friend might still be alive today had he been made to watch some film like this. Maybe he would maybe he wouldn't we will never know but it is an all too familiar tragic tale that almost everyone knows someone who has a similar experience. Kids believe they are invincible until tragedy happens and sometimes it is too late
A customer just called my shop asking if we could govern the speed of his teenage son's pickup truck as he had been ticketed twice now for excessive speed. I advised him that we could and set an appointment. I also suggested he require his son to view this video. I hope it helps.
Did anyone suggest putting a boot up his dumbass?
I wonder how useful that really would be. Knowing the car can’t go faster than say 55 mph would probably prevent the kid from trying to race, but you can still get killed driving like an idiot at under 55 mph. In fact most crash tests and safety systems are only designed for 35 mph.
They should have taken the truck away from him as he has demonstrated he is not mature enough to drive one.
EXACTLY what I was about to say...@@necroslair
@@necroslairexactly
I spent 20 years as a volunteer firefighter and have seen too many accidents with horrific end results. Was diagnosed in 2017 with chronic PTSD. My advice to all who read this is slow down and drive wisely or this is what can happen to you!!
Thank you for your service!
☮️💜
Our next door neighbors son is one too. If they happen to go down our road(we live in the country), they'll honk while going by, in the big pumper truck. Thank you for your service!
@@GOGOSLIFEwow that was a nothing story
@@uuuultra
Followed by a nothing reply. You're not that special.
I survived a serious car accident in 1996. The accident was weather related and I did nothing to cause the wreck. The car was totaled but I wasn't. The only injuries on me were from the air bag and the seatbelt. So tragic that many of these lives could have been saved with seat belts and air bags. I especially felt bad for the 2 teen boys who survived the wreck that killed their other family members.
wait what?
The roadway version of "scared straight." 😐 I'm in my 60s, and I remember no seat belts in the car. We bounced around in the back seat like pinballs. My folks were alcoholics who often drank, and drove. I remember being terrified. I'm lucky to be alive.
Me too 😂
Crazy how today you can’t even say or print words like “rape” or “murder” . I guess because people have become so sensitive? I’m not really sure. But I was about a 1/4 way through this before I realized these weren’t re-enactments. I see at least two early 20s new drivers saying that this really impacted them. I’m thinking it’s possible that just watching this has already saved lives for the two. I’m impressed they cared enough about people to make these films. Hate to admit that I honestly don’t think they care much anymore. Not today’s government.
Yes, you really are. Thankfully
@@lisacolbert5987 This is far from the only film of its type. None of these show re-enactment footage, except some have tacked on in-between actual car wreck footage. It was different from the 1950s - 1970s and probably part of the 1980s. Others include:
Signal 30
Wheels of Tragedy (though it does have acting in parts)
Mechanized Death
Blood on the Windscreen (though this one had the blood doctored up to look more vivid.)
Red Asphalt (this one had a guy at the end, in a 1 car Corvair wreck, get the A pillar apparently through his chin. It went through to his neck.)
There are probably more that I don't know about, but a few of these were shot by The Ohio State Patrol.
we all are
Old film but still carries a powerful message that still resonates to this very day and beyond. However, I am quite surprised at how graphic this film is and how it has made it this far without being banned and removed from TH-cam.
I suppose it's still presented as educational and has been thankfully grandfathered in.
If it's not graphic it completely defeats the purpose of showing it. It's like the Ray Rice incident a while back. When "all he did" was punch his girlfriend unconscious and the only video was him dragging her out of the elevator, it was no big deal. 2 week suspension and everyone went about their lives. That was until the video of inside the elevator was released. Now for some weird reason, it was much much much more worse even though it was obvious what had happened there just wasn't video so meh went the public. Just like if you censored these video or worse just told what happened meh would go the public.
@@Lightblue2222what do you mean you suppose it's presented as educational? Even if you weren't going into it with the intention of being educated on the subject matter and was simply looking for a cheap thrill you would without any doubt be educated on what you can expect driving like an asshole.
bodies dont just instantly turn stiff.. the only 2 things that are fake is the line of bodies at the end to demonstrate how many die, and the moaning sounds dubbed over the silent capture. nothing looks like ketchup here dude. this gets more graphic as it moves along, looks like you left early in denial. you think this at 15:28 is fake? nope real suffering. blood is darker where its been pooling and thin bright right red drip lines. this is how blood looks. her jaw is completely shattered in wards. @@travisjohnson622
@@bradsanders407 24:46 imagen being shown this as a young driver in the early 70s when youve never seen a dead body before. top of the dudes skull and eyes are smashed in .. getting hit by a train is hard core
I didn’t even realize this video would be graphic, let along this graphic. Wow. Brutal
When I was a junior in high school (spring of 2005, to be exact) my class saw one of those staged drivers ed videos. A week later one of my classmates was killed in a very gruesome car accident. He was a known bad driver, was not wearing a seat belt, and was speeding around a sharp curve. By the grace of God his girlfriend lived, but he was ejected and crushed when the car flipped over. I believe that if our teachers had showed us one of these older, real videos, he might've been scared into altering his driving habits. Might've, that is. We'll never know.
RIP Travis. We all miss you, even now.
I was 15 when I saw this film, way before gore movies and the internet. It was in a darkened, small auditorium, and I nearly passed out. Decades later I've never forgotten it. I thought, okay, I'll have a look to see if it's as bad as I remember. I'm now nauseous and feel unwell. It's not the gore, it's knowing that they're not actors, no CGI blood. Where we can see them gasping and hear them moaning, it's too much for me. I don't need to see any more, I know what's coming. I still remember it from the last time. And yes, it had a very strong impact on the way I drove, and, seat belts 100% of the time, for 100% of the occupants in any vehicle I drove.
I watched a film like this in junior high, back in 1963. I don't remember the film's name...but I've been an (overly?) cautious driver since I got my license back then. No accidents and no tickets. This film brought back memories of that film. Stay safe...and sane everyone.
Maybe it was Signal 30?
Or "Wheels of Tragedy"?
Red Asphalt and Mechanized Death are two others, but off the top of my head, I don't know when they were published.
Back in the 70's my friend became an Albulance driver (way before they were called E M S) He had only been on the job a short time after his training
Attended a call a motorcyclist accident at an off ramp from a bridge when he got there a Policeman asked him to walk the off ramp about 200ft
away he found the severed head of the motorcyclist (he over dosed 8mo later)
R I P Buddy 🙏
So sad...😢😢💔💔
@johnnycrash3270 Sounds like being an “Albulance” driver wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
@@MikaHakkinen-vj5sbBetter than "ambulam" like some other people say lol
Worst accident I ever saw was a pickup vs. a pedestrian in Auburn Washington in 1989. A little old man was slowly crossing the street in a crosswalk on a four lane thoroughfare. Cars in both directions stopped to let hime get across the street. We were in the left lane and there was nobody in the right lane. Just as the man passed in front of our car, a pickup truck came up behind us. But instead of stopping, he whipped around to the right and went past up. The pickup hit the man at about 30 mph. That wasn't even very fast by our standards but it was fast enough. The old man went flying, probably 20 feet or so. He went headfirst into the curb. He didn't look seriously injured. There was a little blood where he landed but other than that he looked ok. But he wasn't. He was not breathing when they put him in the ambulance. We found a blanket in somebody's car and civered him to keep him warm. Otherwise we didn't touch him. The medics were there within about 2 minutes. It did not look good. The poor man probably lived with his kids. He was just walking to the market to get a couple items. My wife, in likely a futile but sweet gesture, gathered up his milk, orange juice, bread and apples and stuck it in the ambulance with the man.
Meanwhile, police were asking us what we saw. And just down the road a bit they had pulled the driver of the pickup away so they could talk to them. It was a kid. Seventeen years old. He was impatient. He whipped around behind us without bothering to check on why all these cars were stopped at the crosswalk. It was clearly the kid's fault. He struck a pedestrian in a crosswalk, severely injuring or killing this poor old man.
I don't know what became of either the man or the kid. The old man was barely clinging to life. The kid who hit him at the very least would get a ticket for failing to stop. And if the old man did die he could be charged with a felony. Misdemeanor reckless driving at the least. I don't exactly what. But I am sure that no matter what the consequences were, that day will stay with the kid. He is likely in his late 40s or early 50s now. But I bet he still thinks about that day in 1989 every day and wishes he could have that day back. And I still get choked up thinking about how my wife picked up his groceries and put them with him in the ambulance. He was just out walking to the store to get some bread and orange juice. He did not know that he wouldn't be coming home that day. It was a senseless and tragic incident. An inexperienced driver got inpatient, swerved around to the right, and struck that poor old man who was walking to the market to get orange juice and bread.
Man that is terrible and I’m sorry y’all had to witness that. Your wife sounds like an amazing woman and such a sweetheart to collect his groceries for him and set them into the ambulance. I wish you guys peace and prosperity in the future.
Hope that kid relives that horrible moment every minute to the day he passes!
I am so sorry you had to see that horror! I hope one day your lives become richer than you can imagine
The worst I saw was on the 405 freeway near Tukwila and Renton coming down from the Burien area back in like 1996, a biker on one of those crotch rockets slammed into the back of another vehicle due to traffic coming to a standstill and he was cruising at a very high rate of speed. People speed up and down the 405 all the time, a lot of people like to race that stretch of highway.
@@pjf03131979 Thank you. Your words are appreciated. Peace ✌️
Some brutal footage here and even more brutal narration. Glad I've seen it for the first time in 2022
I remember driving with my parents up Interstate 65 between Louisville and Indianapolis about two years after it opened in the early sixties. Back then, the state placed crosses in the median at every location of a fatal accident. I remember counting around 70 crosses on that stretch of Interstate. Many people didn't know how to drive interstates back then, and many accidents were related to improper passing on open stretches of highway. Frankly, the crosses should come back - a stark reminder of what happens when drivers get distracted or, more recently, acton their road rage.
Interesting, lack of knowledge on how to drive on, well, any road has not changed.
Our class saw it in 1979. We should have been ashamed of ourselves. When the good stuff started, we all started laughing and whooping it up. The teacher had to stop the film and yell at us.
Everyone that ever gets a license to drive, should be made to watch this, and videos like it for at least 3 days of drivers education. Excellent video ,thank you ❤
I’m 22, I’ve been driving since I was 16 and so have most of my friends. When all of us hit 21 i noticed a lot of them suddenly got a lot less uncomfortable with drunk driving; it’s shocked me when we’ve gone out to bars or clubs for the night, just how easily some of them are ready to have 6 drinks even though they’re supposed to be the DD, or to hop in the car of someone who’s clearly shitfaced. Some of these people even have friends and family who’ve died in accidents in ok I’m drunk drivers. I’d rather pay $30 for an Uber than get in a crash and spend the rest of my life paralyzed, and I’d sure as hell rather spend a few hours sobering up in my car than risk killing someone.
Don't put the key in the ignition for any reason, that's an automatic DUI.
I would rather ride home in a cab, or ride a city bus than get in a vehicle with someone who's intoxicated.
I am 22 and drank once after age 21 and it was only at home but didn't swallowed it spit it out I was using it for meat flavor. I make sure to have it away from driver and passengers from drinking it it was sealed to avoid DUI. I am not a beer person because of the taste.
Stop drinking and worshipping that destructive piss water for one
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823Not only in the ignition, there were instances of DUIng even when an owner enters his car parked nearby the house for some reason.
My father used to help a funeral parlor at various times when they were overloaded with work. One night he helped them collect a carload of teenagers after a crash that killed them all. He wouldn't talk about it other than to say what I just did ( more respectfully), but he raised holy hell if he thought any of us was acting irresponsibly with a vehicle.
My dad was a funeral director, got his license back in the early 60s. But he had to be a paramedic 1st, because they used the hearses a lot to respond to accident scenes. Since we either lived above the funeral home or in the housing provided, I've seen a lot of this. Right before I started drivers ed, my dad would get me up, take me to the embalming room, before clean up, and show me what happens if you are not a responsible driver.
Back in the early 70s, 2 young men were riding motorcycles, acting out behind an 18 wheeler. Once the truck driver slowed down, they decided to pass. Guess they never saw the other big RV headed towards them. Hit head on. 1 kid was literally shredded when he got thrown through a double barb wire fence. The other kid got the major impact, thrown against the 18 wheeler trying to stop, then rolled 50' landing in the deep ditch.
Sad part, the kid that went through the fence, his nose was found hanging off the fence. Shoes knocked off. Fingers missing. But the family demanded the nose be put back on, through a fit about his brand new shoes that were missing and demanded he look perfect for an open casket.
The kid in the ditch. It broke all the major bones in his body. He had to be rolled in sheets so they could get him out of the ditch. His parents, no open casket. They were too concerned about where his new watch went. Hmm, probably flew off when his had did.
I still remember the first fatal crash I responded to . Some idiot guy in his 40s driving a Z28 Camaro doing about 70 or 80 on a country road ran a stop sign and was hit by a dump truck at an intersection . The Camaro rolled twice before it came to rest on its t-roof and the driver was ejected . He had injuries to this head , neck , back and chest as well as his arms and legs and was beyond the point of trying to resuscitate . When I saw the body I tried not to puke but ended up later at our station . A half empty can of beer was found in his car and he had a .017 blood alcohol content when he died . The driver of the dump truck we transported to the hospital because he wanted to be checked out by a doctor and was clearly shaken up mentally .
As someone who has worked on an ambulance, it amazes me that they didn’t wear gloves back then
They didn't understand the problem of blood born pathogens at the time, and thankfully there wasnt as much of a problem with that as there is today.
@@blueokieI'm more surprised by the fact the one guy grabbed a charred corpse with his bare hands
They also yanked injured people out of wrecks without concern of causing more injuries. This was before EMTs, when injured people were just thrown in a hearse or police car and taken to the hospital, without any medical support on the way.
@@blueokieThey totally knew that you could catch diseases from blood, it wasn’t the Middle Ages. But this was before things like HIV and hepatitis C were widespread or even existed at all , so they just didn’t think there was much of a risk.
The one thing the cop said is 100% CORRECT! 90% of accidents are due to a total lack of paying attention or ppl taking unnecessary risk.
I remember this one.
My wife was first on scene for toddler fatality MVA, ER nurse, always stops. Kid did not like to sit in the càr seat, parents not make him, she said he was broken in half. She sort of went off on the parents with minor injuries in the front seat for killing their kid. CHP guys had to drag her away, told her to chill out or go in the back of the cruiser.
She has some pretty horrible stories
Jesus. That’s horrific. I use to work for ER doctors. I took care of all of their charts for billing. I read some pretty horrific things over my 15 years doing that job. Can’t imagine actually witnessing it.
@@deniserossiter1059 Just be glad TV does not have smellovision. Necrotic bowel is way worse than a gangrenous foot, for example, but not as bad if you put something that smells on your mask. Peppermint seems to work best
I don't blame her for her anger. I can't even imagine how I would react to something that horrific that could've been so easily avoided.
I took drivers ed in 82. I wanted to get my license at 15 so I had to take an extended 6 month drivers ed class starting at 14 1/2. If I recall, it was about 3 hours every day after school. The last 45 mins or so of every class was films like this. I recall one that was made in the late 70's. It wasn't old in 1982. The film quality was high and it was very graphic. I somehow related to that one a little more. The kids were dressed like we dressed, they were in cars like we rode in and saw on the road every day. There was one scene with a young girl in a Pontiac GrandAm, exactly like my mom's car. That, really hit home for me.
Oh, I remember this film, the school showed it to us back in 1980, right before lunch. Needless to say, not many of us wanted lunch that day. This film seemed a bit more gruesome back then, now after 43 years of being desensitized with all that one can see on the internet, horror movies and just life in general, it's not near as gruesome, still gruesome, but it doesn't turn my stomach like it did back then. The scenes I remember and which disturbed me the most were the drunk driver that got thrown from his car, caught in the wheel well and drug dozens of feet, the elderly couple that got burned up in the car, and the train collision aftermath. The train aftermath is still the worst one of the bunch and it made be very careful at railroad crossings.
I love that they put the photos on, no disrespect towards the families. But they give a real feel for what could be. Stay safe loves.
"He never felt better when the darkness swallowed him and he won't have another chance, but you do." I'll make sure his words will be tattooed onto my memory
I remember in the 1970's (?) they used to have on the news the "death toll" on the highways around the U.S. I miss that!! This video is awesome! And it was back in the day when cars didn't have seatbelts, so you were toast if you got into a crash. This is why I drive a Subaru, because I'll probably walk away from a crash.
Reminds of CLifford Johnson, the man who was severely burned in a nightclub fire;
Clifford Johnson went back into the fire at the Boston Cocoanut Grove Lounge...
...no fewer than 4 times in search of his date who unbeknown to him, had safely escaped already. Mr Johnson suffered extensive 3rd degree burns over 55% of his body, and 1/2 of that was burned to the bone.
Johnson survived the fire, becoming the most severely burned person ever to survive his injuries at the time. After almost two years of torture and pain in a hospital, several hundred operations and skin grafts, he married his nurse and returned to his home state.
Mr Johnson and his new wife went home to Missouri, soon he found steady work delivering fuel oil.
On Dec. 20, 1956, just 14 years after the fire he survived, Johnson's truck skidded off a road near Sumner, Mo., and burst into flames. Trapped, he burned to death in the cab of his truck in the fire."
Was he speeding? was he not paying attention? he was driving the truck in a way it slid off the icy road and overturned.
Alot of people contribute survival rates in car crashes to seat belts alone when comparing now to the 50s and 60s. But they forget that there were 2 things that didn't exist in the 50s and 60s. Those thimgs were the modern EMS system and the Jaws of life extrication tools. Because of the advent of the modern EMS and the invention of extrication tools, these things allow us to better extrication patients and to stabilize patients at the scene then transport to the hospital or helicopter. But even with all of these things a crash bad enough will still kill.
People have no idea. Nothing ever is the same after seeing a body mangled in a wheel well.
This was scary. Seeing bodies that didn’t look in pieces but they were clearly not alive. Dying is the scariest thing to me.
I've been a nurse for 33 years. This was harsh. I did not see this in drivers Ed. Whoa.
I was a medical assistant for 10 years and I'm familiar with how hard you work. I love nurses. I really do appreciate you. I never intend to be rude but may I ask how young you are?
One year ago I was involved in two very bad car accidents due to the fault of the other drivers. The first totaled my 2016 Fit and the second heavily damaged my 2019 CR-V and sent me to the hospital. I saw both coming and couldn't do anything. Stay sharp and pay attention people.
It sounds like you still might have some doubt about not doing everything you could. Neither wreck was your fault. I hope you weren't injured due to other driver's poor driving.
Maybe a little dated, but the message is the same for today, the dead child and the open eyes of the dead victims still can shock.
Dated? Find "X marks the spot"
Physics is physics, people die the same ways in cars now that they did back then and the message is the same.
@@joesmoe71 Cars do have air bags in all sorts of places now, but I'm still convinced that the best of armor (or the best of safety equipment) won't protect a dumb enough idiot against stupidity.
" Before Ralph Nader's 1965 book, Unsafe at Any Speed, car dashboards were usually made of metal. Seat belts were available only at exotic auto parts stores, where they were expensive and customers had to bolt them to the car's floorboards. Even at low speeds, a car wreck could propel passengers into the metal dashboard or snap the driver's neck on the metal steering wheel. At mid-speed wrecks (say, 20 miles an hour), passengers could be thrown into the windshield, which was made of "safety glass" that could chisel a passenger's face and body. Car doors were not attached to the car's body firmly enough to withstand collision forces, and would often pop open or off in an accident, which would instantly make the car's frame (and the passengers inside) much more likely to be crumpled by the crash.
Nader's book focused mostly on the Chevrolet Corvair, but many of the problems detailed were applicable in every auto showroom and highway smash-up. The response to Unsafe at Any Speed led Congress to pass the Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. And since then, everything that adds the word "safety" to the word "automotive" -- seat belts, airbags, even the idea of manufacturers' recalls, or requiring crash tests -- can be traced to that act of Congress, and to Nader's book."
Source: NNDB.com
I truly thank God for Ralph Nader! He was tops in the field of safety, and really stuck it to Vehicle makers that, early on, made such unsafe vehicles! Many, many improvements later, Vehicles are much safer to drive...as long as they don't have a careless imbecile behind the steering wheel! Strange, though, isn't it...that is, that people still drink & drive, use cellphones, loud music, & entertainment of any sort...all of which can, if improperly used, kill a person or persons. I guess that, in some cases, the only way to learn not to drive distracted for some people, is that their carelessness can lead to the injury (or injuries), or even certain death to themselves, or somebody else. Tragically, some people never learn safe driving habits, & then, suddenly, it's too late!!!
I give Unsafe at Any Speed a mixed review. Yes, cars were designed poorly in the 1960s. Cars handled poorly. The brakes were horrible. The tires offered poor traction. With the adoption of disc brakes, radial tires, anti-sway bars, and stiffer suspensions, driving became safer over the years. The fatality rate in 1968 was 5.5 deaths per 100 mvmt. By 1988, the death rate was 2.0. Today, the death rate is 1.1-1.2 death per 100 mvmt. This is in part due to the sheer volume of cars on our highway system. Inducements to drive on interstate type freeways has lowered the death rate as well. LIke all things in life, however, there is such a thing as too much. Today's cars have too many distractions and too many blind spots resulting from compliance to FMVSS 208. As a result, fatality rates have increased in recent years from a low of 1.0 deaths per mvmt in 2011. We need to take a critical look at some of these driver assist systems, excessive use of touchscreens in vehicles have contributed to an increase in the fatality rate. In addition, our interstate highway system is approaching maximum capacity. As it approaches capacity, the chances for collisions increases as flow conflict points extend into rural areas that formerly had fewer accidents. Capacity collapse needs to be addressed through old fashioned highway building and road improvements. The burden can no longer be put on auto manufacturers or drivers.
Ralph Nader is on TH-cam - "Ralph Nader Radio Hour"...and he's still sharp as a tack!
@@ronaldshank7589 Ralph Nader is on TH-cam - "Ralph Nader Radio Hour"...and he's still sharp as a tack!
Ralph Nader is just a shill and lobbyist for whoever signs the check. The only reason he went after GM was because of a personal grudge. Were there problems with the Corvair? Absolutely!!
Any motor vehicle of that time period could be picked apart for multitudes of safety and design flaws,he just focused on the Corvair specifically for personal reasons. Ralph Nader is a muckraker and self serving mouthpiece for the Democratic Party who offers his service to the highest bidder 🤡
Something about these old clips and documentary series hits different. You can also see that some accidents were hardcore because the cars then were built like tanks . This definitely hit me as it's tragic how some perished through no fault of their own.
They weren’t built like tanks, they folded up much more easily than modern cars. th-cam.com/video/C_r5UJrxcck/w-d-xo.html
Fish tanks yeah 😂
We watched this and another video during driver's ed in the 80s.
Parents do not want their kids to see stuff like this today, so they do not show it.
And we have more accidents today than ever due to cell phone usage.
These videos need to be shown to new drivers more now than ever before.
Dunno if we have more accidents or not, but driving is way safer. If you compare the death rate per miles driven, there were more than twice as many deaths 50 years ago as today.
they haven't showed stuff like this in 30 years
We were required to watch Red Asphalt and write a summary on it when I was in driver's ed, about 7 or so years back. I continue to advocate for these types of films. It really fixes the "it won't happen to me" attitude.
It’s so crazy that so many cars during that time didn’t have seatbelts. I remember my grandparents telling me they never wore seatbelts growing up because most cars didn’t have them
Seat belts were mandatory by 1966 but wearing them wasn't. Shoulder harnesses in '68.
@@snatchinyopeopleSounds pretty familiar with something else today
And we rode around sitting in the back of a pickup
Most of our early cars had only lap belts. My parents had a 1966 Volvo which had two separate belts for the front passengers. One lap belt and a separate shoulder belt.
And somehow we survived it all...
It’s amazing they show the real thing. It makes more of an impact.
Pun intended? More of an impact than the crash huh
These scenes are horribly gruesome! I’ve NEVER seen an accident film like this in my life! Good Lord!
A police officer once told me that "a vehicle is like a guided missile"... That couldn't be more true.
As a retired fire chief, during my career I have taken part in extrications of people in similar situations to every scene shown in this film. Many of them were people that I knew. In today's world, if this film was shown to every young person before they reached driving age there would be such a response from parents that their babies should never be exposed to these scenes it would make nationwide news reports. Sometimes life's realities should not be hidden from young adults. Many of them will eventually be some of these victims. Human bodies versus vehicles lose every time.
The mother driving the station wagon reminded me of my dingbat mother who almost got me killed three times. She was a horrible driver. One time we came around a bend and at the end was a train crossing with the arms down. She was hauling ass but was able to stop before the train hit us. The second time we went careening across a taxi way inside the NAS base in town. She didn’t see the C130 coming at us and she barely missed being run over. There were four of us kids with her. The third time she was driving my grandparents and me to their house and she ran a stop sigh when we were hit by a truck hauling a trailer. She clipped the back of the trailer and we ended up in the ditch. Nobody was hurt in any of those wrecks, thank goodness.
I know this is a 2 yr old comment but a close shave with a C- 130 is INSANE. Nightmare material
@@BassGirlSusan1961 I had to look it up. You mean that big military truck? _Good Lord._
@@101Volts No it's a big ass Military Plane!
How in the hell did she end up driving across a military base runway????
No idea, she's gotten disorientated somehow and ended up on an active runway. @@sarahmaske7335
I have been driving for 40 years and even have a cdl but I still enjoy watching these type of videos and learning, you should do that too🧐
Years ago I was driving a 24’ box truck from Toledo to Columbus. I was on 71 south about 10 miles from Bowling Green. It was raining so hard that in a fully loaded truck I was only going 45. Some guy in a Crown Vic flew by me in the fast lane. An SUV was getting on to the highway and a semi moved over to let them on. The semi had no idea there was a car going that fast behind him. The Crown Vic swerved to the right lane and then lost the back end. He hit the center hill and went airborne. While I the air a semi coming north t-boned him and basically blew the Crown Vic up. Even though it was raining so hard the car was on fire when it came to rest and wasn’t put out. I stopped my truck and grabbed my extinguisher and ran over. Someone was already there. He didn’t stop me in time and when I got to the car the guys head was laying on the front seat and his body was outside the car. People just think they can drive better than they can
The fact that most people refer to the inside lane as the "fast " lane rather than the "passing lane " speaks volumes.
@@shaynehofstetter2869 Seems like the kind of language one would hear at a racetrack, perhaps?🤔
It's sad that even nowadays many people don't seem to understand the risk they take while behind the wheel. Most deaths are due to speeding.
texting while driving
Distracted driving is the #1 cause of accidents, speeding is #2.
Saw this film in 1978 as part of our Driver's Ed curriculum at Summit High School in Summit, New Jersey. Just as impactful today as it was 44 years ago.
I wish they'd make Driver's Ed mandatory again. I saw most of these films in 78 right after I got my permit. Reality leaves no room for error was the tag line for one of them.
I remember required driver education in class and behind the wheel with the driver instructor (who has his own set of brakes, by the way,). It was a good class learned a lot, got some time behind the wheel. Ohio used to require driver's education, but not anymore. Anyways, my point was the instructor didn't require you to watch the infamous "Signal Thirty" another driver's Ed film from Ohio State Patrol as long as we had a A average on tests and attended every class session. I was so paranoid about watching Signal 30, you bet I followed all requirements and was exempt. I've eventually viewd Signal Thirty, but honestly this film is ten times worse as for gore and scary drama. I doubt many young drivers would not be laughing at the end no matter how desensitized to extreme violence they have been exposed to. This film still holds up.
Man, that is a good little proverb. So true for all aspects of life!
This is actually a really interesting way to ensure good drivers.
Thanks for documenting this historical footage!
I have provided assistance at two different fatalities in my life, one auto and the other motorcycle.
Watching people die when you can do no more for them takes a little piece of your soul.
The best way to have these films work on kids is- have them watch it alone.
They can't hide from reality through jokes, they won't be distracted by the reactions of others, and they won't be trying to monitor their own reactions according to their peers social expectations.
Just a young person- with this film- watching alone or with someone they are able to emotionally open up to.
Then, after- to talk about what they felt while watching. Like, physical gut feelings...That's gonna be key- our guts use cortisol to warn us of possible danger. It makes it clench and feel "a drop". Or uneasy. That's gut instinct, and we should always take note of it- our senses pick up everything around us a split second before our conscious awareness picks up on it- and we can often notice things with our senses that our conscious mind doesn't. Like- the hair standing up on your neck when you see a dark shadow out the corner of your vision, and "feel" like someone else is behind you. That's our hindbrain activating the stay aware and alert signal
I truly appreciate this video being uploaded. Young people need to face reality when they’re given access to a 5,000 lb weapon and unleashed on society with little knowledge of how much damage they can actually do with it. Videos like these, while horrific to watch, are invaluable if they can save future lives. Also want to give a shout-out to first responders. I cannot imagine the horrors they see on a daily basis 💙
I remember watching Blood Flows Red on the Highway during drivers ed in the 81! This is when it was still done for free during the summer at the high school. Half the class got sick, it was mental. The rest of us were pretty enthralled by the incredible wreckage.
I want to get a classic car and this film isn’t stopping me from getting one but sure thing is this film has encouraged me even more not drink and drive, text, no nothing these crashes are brutal, rest in peace everyone in these crashes
I know someone who recently gave up as a paramedic battling depression induced by the profession.. one story they told me was when they got called to the scene of car collision on a truck she asked the guy where the patient was and he just said "He is in the drivers seat".. so she walks up to the car window and puts her hand on his shoulder and looked up only to see half his head completely sliced off. My heart goes out to anyone who has to respond to these accidents.
My father took us to an actual wrecked car were three teenagers were drinking and driving and they got killed I will never forget the smell of that car. By the way I'm 63 and haven't even had a speeding ticket I'd say it worked.
These kinds of films need to be shown in driver's ed today. Especially today because EVERYONE thinks they're invulnerable. I'm a truck driver of 30+ years and I have seen in real life everything in this film and more. Nothing makes a person lose faith in the intelligence of the human race than seeing a 6 year old being literally scraped off the pavement. God rest her soul.
Insightful and educational real film. These should still be shown today to all drivers! Amazing to think there was no medical equipment on ambulances back then. Just scoop and go! ( probably causing more injuries )
Geez the way that guy just grabs the roasted body without gloves. Truly a different time. 😅
Summary:
"Driving is a very serious business. Deadly serious."
There are so many lines in this film that are not only scary but factual, and this is one of them.
I remember schools would display mangled cars of dead teenagers, right there on school grounds.
I remember seeing this film in Drivers Ed years ago and I have NEVER forgotten it!
Every driver needs to see this video.
When I realized that they weren't dummies, this is real footage of the dead, my stomach heaved. I don't mind watching reenactments, but I didn't expect to watch the actual footage! This is gonna haunt me for some time.
This feels like an episode from the series "The Faces of Death"
There were a lot of films like this. "Signal 30" and "Wheels of Tragedy" and the first "Red Asphalt" are a few, then there's "Mechanized Death." There are probably more. I saw "Blood on the Windscreen," but they edited the death images to look bloodier (though they didn't do a very convincing job at it.)
That music overwhelmed my brain and the pictures alongside were a double whammy..I’ve never seen auto accident victims that weren’t blurred ..
My Father was a sherif for 10 yrs. He retired because of the carnage he had to clean up.
That's what deputies are for.