Love the music that goes with this. No seatbelt for the kid either. Remember dancing and hopping in Grandpa's back seat of Cadillac listening to music on 8track tape😁
I'm in my 60s, and I remember no seatbelts...we bounced around like pinball. If someone hit the brakes you slammed into the back of the front seats. I got a bloody lip once. It's just the way it was...scary. Also my folks were alcoholics who often drove drunk. It was terrifying, especially in the Rocky Mountains. 😐
I never saw that one, but I saw "Wheels of Tragedy" and "Mechanized Death" in my Boy Scout Troop in 1971-2. There were many older Scouts in Troop 5 that year.
@@maryowens1872 We had classroom with the simulators first 6 weeks followed by driving on the road. The teacher would sit in the front right seat and 3 of us would swap out driving. Lol. Good memories.
When I got my licence in outback Australia I was 16 . The Sergeant of police in Marburg QLD stood on the veranda with a cup of tea and said drive around the town for 10 minutes , nobody with me . When I got back He said , you didn't have a smash up , come get your licence young fella .
As a Yank who had to go through a lot of hoops to get there, I must say I admire the Outback and/or Walkabout way of doing things...Shout-out to the land of Michael Hutchins and INXS, the land of Malcom and Angus Young, the land of Footy...Oh What A Feeling!
@@Edward-bd8iy hahaha good on ya mate 👍. I have been a professional shooter culling Roos ferrel dogs and Razorbacks pigs for over 30 years . But I also lived in Glendale Arizona for 2 years back in the 90s , and loved it . I drove a truck doing brick deliveries out of Phoenix Arizona . I made a few mates and we use to ride our horses into Mexico every now and again . Great days . You have a good one mate and knock back a couple of tubes for me , I drink xxxx beer myself . It's a Brisbane brew , it's been around since 1888 .
@@MattGuzman-ng2yx bloody oath , there's not enough beer in Queensland to douse my thirst on a hot dusty summers day mate 👍 I recon I have made a few publicans rich in my life .
@andypottschmidt696The color commentary they did for the racing scene in that 'biker' flick(the sidecar racers) was legendary, as well as Servo's 'Ode To Creepy Girl'
I like how the 1953 Plymouth sedan turned into a 1950 Plymouth three window coupe with minor front end damage after the accident and the 1953 Cadillac turned into a 1939 Willys. Those two guys at the desk had a bit of stage fright.
And the automakers fought like hell against it... Even Lee Iacocca resisted SRS for the Chrysler Corporation minivan products until the new designs came out. Got to have that profit... and trade-in incentive selling points...
Two things to point out here. The driver of the Cadillac was definitely driving while he was intoxicated. He simply abandoned all caution while he was driving in that state. The driver of the Plymouth was in a hurry and also abandoned caution. That was a recipe for a tragic accident that did not need to occur. It is important to driver carefully. This way you're much more likely to avoid an accident. Never drive when one's ability to drive is impaired by alcohol, drugs or a medical condition.
So true. But the accident shown involved at least one totally different car. We can't really see anything but the bottom of the car on it's side. But the other car certainly isn't the '50 Cadillac Coupe DeVille driven by the drunkard. Instead it's a possibly 1950 Plymouth Coupe. So that's a poorly made film. At first I thought that guy at the desk on the left was a cardboard cutout.
@@JimErvin-d2i at the end you can see the front of the overturned vehicle. It looks like it's from the 1940a. Clearly two junkers pulled from the scrapyard just to create a wreck without actually damaging any cars.
Pretty phony but at least they didn't wreck the Caddy cnvt. I might have seen it wrapped around a telephone pole in another video on '50s wrecked cars.@@jimgriffin9924
I am a bit creeped out that this was recommended to me right after I ran a barely red light in Grand Prairie. Our city street speeds here are like highway speeds. Hmmm.
Love the scripts they had on the desk in front of them, your boy view left kept looking at it and then saying the line. Almost as good a delivery as "Atomic Cafe".
I remember watching these kinds of films in school. I always thought the narration was as criminally negligent as many of the drivers the films demonstrated. Talk about wooden ! Couldn't they practice delivering their lines a few times ? Anyway, I'd say that they should show videos like this to school kids nowadays except they'd probably get sued for showing the kids the truth and traumatizing them.
@@fbksfrank4 Actually, I bet they are. The thing is they weren't professional actors/narrators. Those cops didn't have the time to go through multiple takes, and they basically just read their lines off a script board and that was it - done.
@TedBronson1918 I was thinking about the media, I'm not sure they were behind it...of course they could have just gotten to work and then the boss man rolled in with a special project.
In mint condition the Cadillac would be $50K to $60K at auction. The 53 Plymouth isn't a popular car with collectors so it would be maybe $20K in good condition. (I have a 54 that I got for $3K) After the accident the Plymouth became a 1950 three window coupe. worth around $30K in good condition. The Cadillac became a 1939 Willys. I couldn't tell if it was a sedan or coupe. I don't have any idea what they are worth but the coupes are sought after for drag cars. The sedans are less valuable. After that horrific head on collision the Plymouth only had minor front end damage. The Willys had none.
I remember being shown these blood & guts films in driver's training nearly 60 years ago. Scared the beejesus out of me but nothing like the thought of having to drive an EV.
Newest cars I see are 1953, maybe 1954 models. His Cadillac is a '52. Joe really had a serious problem. I've rarely head of someone drinking heavily early in the morning like that. No way did that Plymouth stand a chance in a head on with that 4400 pound Cadillac. Today of course Grand Prairie is overpopulated with 180,000 people.
@@MattGuzman-ng2yx ...and you've done more actual LIVING in the past 12 years than you did all that time before, right? Jesus Christ really does give new life!
...And this was apparently before teleprompters, or this jurisdiction couldn't see passing the cost on to the taxpayers (boy, those days are GONE!!)... It couldn't be more obvious that they didn't do their homework the days before so that they would come off Spit and Polished the day of!!!! 😆
This was the "golden age" of drink driving, no reliable breathalyzers until 1969 and alcohol limit of .15 which was hard to determine. It didn't start to significantly change until the late 80's when the body count got high enough.
This film was nothing compared to the old 1950's drivers ed films they used to show us in high school. When I was in high school all the muscle cars from the late 60's and early 70's where being sold off by the original owners as used cars, so there a lot of kids that had really fast cars in those days.
Dallas and Tarrant Counties were building like crazy in the 1950’s, building some of the most deadly road designs in the world: wide lanes, clear zones, lots of driveways. But this film blames the bottle.
by the time they find a pencil and paper write down the plate and get to a pay phone the guy has already bought and sold the car for a newer one and has two kids lol
My dad had a 59 Chevy. During the summer he'd take all of the local neighbor kids to the dairy queen. I would stand on the front seat as a 4 year old. I'm not sure they even had seatbelts??
Also Texas Bitulithic,now part of Austin Paving & Construction,and Temco Aircraft,which was later part of Ling-Temco-Vaught,then Chance-Vaught,then General Dynamics,then Martin-Marietta....which for many years was about the biggest employer in Grand Prairie?
It looks like it was in multiple locations. One shot of the Tower Hotel Courts was at 10108 Harry Hines. bigberthasadventures.com/2020/12/13/tower-hotel-courts-on-harry-hines-in-dallas-texas-part-1/ Grand Prairie State Bank was on Main st. in Grand Prairie. And it was an Irving Fire Truck at the scene.
Wreck looks as if was filmed on the west side of Irving,somewhere around Belt Line Road,or southeast Irving on what is now MacArthur Blvd. Both locations on the southern end are near the Grand Prairie city limits which means at the time both cities might've 'rolled' on it per Mutual Aid.
Love the music that goes with this.
No seatbelt for the kid either.
Remember dancing and hopping in Grandpa's back seat of Cadillac listening to music on 8track tape😁
No, there were no seatbelts then. Seatbelts were on option not available to all car manufactureres. 😢
I'm in my 60s, and I remember no seatbelts...we bounced around like pinball. If someone hit the brakes you slammed into the back of the front seats. I got a bloody lip once. It's just the way it was...scary. Also my folks were alcoholics who often drove drunk. It was terrifying, especially in the Rocky Mountains. 😐
Seat belts became the law in 1969. Just got my first VW.😊
That cop looking around before he pilfers that wallet😂😂😂
The guy talking at the beginning is stiffer than the bodies they hauled away.
😂😂😂
I remember Drivers Ed. when I was attending Austin Senior High,
I remember having to watch "Blood on the Highway", oh man-to-man that was a good one!!
Like one of those movies we'd watch in Driver's Ed in high school back in the mid 80s ... along with the driving simulators :)
Have you seen "The Last Prom"? I consider it a must see.
I never saw that one, but I saw "Wheels of Tragedy" and "Mechanized Death" in my Boy Scout Troop in 1971-2. There were many older Scouts in Troop 5 that year.
I remember those simulators lol.
I remember, knock on wood, I can say that I am a very good driver, because of these films in drivers Ed in my high school.
@@maryowens1872 We had classroom with the simulators first 6 weeks followed by driving on the road. The teacher would sit in the front right seat and 3 of us would swap out driving. Lol. Good memories.
When I was teaching my kids how to drive, I told them to assume that many drivers are impaired. Because they are. Defensive driving saves lives.
I think it was mighty smart to double up on some of services. Who knew how brave the town’s milkmen could be at an accident.
The wreck was so bad it completely changed the cars into older vehicles of different makes and models
When I got my licence in outback Australia I was 16 . The Sergeant of police in Marburg QLD stood on the veranda with a cup of tea and said drive around the town for 10 minutes , nobody with me . When I got back He said , you didn't have a smash up , come get your licence young fella .
As a Yank who had to go through a lot of hoops to get there, I must say I admire the Outback and/or Walkabout way of doing things...Shout-out to the land of Michael Hutchins and INXS, the land of Malcom and Angus Young, the land of Footy...Oh What A Feeling!
@@Edward-bd8iy hahaha good on ya mate 👍. I have been a professional shooter culling Roos ferrel dogs and Razorbacks pigs for over 30 years . But I also lived in Glendale Arizona for 2 years back in the 90s , and loved it . I drove a truck doing brick deliveries out of Phoenix Arizona . I made a few mates and we use to ride our horses into Mexico every now and again . Great days . You have a good one mate and knock back a couple of tubes for me , I drink xxxx beer myself . It's a Brisbane brew , it's been around since 1888 .
@@danielsmith5023
Stay Thirsty, Mateys! 🫡😉🍻👍
@@MattGuzman-ng2yx bloody oath , there's not enough beer in Queensland to douse my thirst on a hot dusty summers day mate 👍 I recon I have made a few publicans rich in my life .
That was some crash ... it literally smacked that Cadillac into a Plymouth
and the Plymouth into something from the 1940s
I was wating for Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo to add additional commentary.
3:31 Mrs. Daniels: Do You Have The Child Support Payment You Owe Me?
3:39 Hey! That Was Great! I wish we could do it again!!!!
😂
Truth!
"Boy, that Mrs. Daniels is loaded for bear..."--Henry Blake
@andypottschmidt696The color commentary they did for the racing scene in that 'biker' flick(the sidecar racers) was legendary, as well as Servo's 'Ode To Creepy Girl'
I like how the 1953 Plymouth sedan turned into a 1950 Plymouth three window coupe with minor front end damage after the accident and the 1953 Cadillac turned into a 1939 Willys.
Those two guys at the desk had a bit of stage fright.
Quite the narrators they were. Reminds me of growing up going to school in Dallas. Couldn't tell you how many times I had to ask, wott? Ya lost me.
1937 Buick not Willys
It turns out that one of the police chiefs was an early version of a robot.
Try and guess which one!
All that carnage, and not a seat belt in sight for the next twenty years!
And the automakers fought like hell against it... Even Lee Iacocca resisted SRS for the Chrysler Corporation minivan products until the new designs came out. Got to have that profit... and trade-in incentive selling points...
@@Edward-bd8iy ...and, he fought airbags for Decades, Too.
@@drpoundsign So did almost everyone else
@@Edward-bd8iy Hank the Deuce called seatbelts "The Craziest Idea I've EVER heard of!"
Two things to point out here. The driver of the Cadillac was definitely driving while he was intoxicated. He simply abandoned all caution while he was driving in that state. The driver of the Plymouth was in a hurry and also abandoned caution. That was a recipe for a tragic accident that did not need to occur. It is important to driver carefully. This way you're much more likely to avoid an accident. Never drive when one's ability to drive is impaired by alcohol, drugs or a medical condition.
Thankyou for the sermon
So true. But the accident shown involved at least one totally different car. We can't really see anything but the bottom of the car on it's side. But the other car certainly isn't the '50 Cadillac Coupe DeVille driven by the drunkard. Instead it's a possibly 1950 Plymouth Coupe. So that's a poorly made film. At first I thought that guy at the desk on the left was a cardboard cutout.
@@JimErvin-d2i at the end you can see the front of the overturned vehicle. It looks like it's from the 1940a. Clearly two junkers pulled from the scrapyard just to create a wreck without actually damaging any cars.
Pretty phony but at least they didn't wreck the Caddy cnvt. I might have seen it wrapped around a telephone pole in another video on '50s wrecked cars.@@jimgriffin9924
I see no evidence in this film the dude was drunk.😂
I am a bit creeped out that this was recommended to me right after I ran a barely red light in Grand Prairie. Our city street speeds here are like highway speeds. Hmmm.
Barely ran a red light? Is that like barely pregnant?
Nervous Norvis. "Transfusion!"
Joe's Cadillac was pretty loaded up with accessories.(sun visor, rear Venetian blinds)
Continental kit, whip antenna...
And look at the way it rocked back and forth when in braked hard to a stop.
Joe was pretty loaded himself,lol.
Joe should have gone over to Larry Tate's place, he almost drank as much as Larry
@@Edward-bd8iy Larry could really set em back even at business lunches lol
Read them que cards buddy!
Pretty sad, indeed. Now, due to technology, we have ANOTHER wonderful driving distraction that didn't exist back then - Android and iPhones.
Love the introducers.
Why he didn't get an Academy Award is beyond me!!!!
Love the scripts they had on the desk in front of them, your boy view left kept looking at it and then saying the line. Almost as good a delivery as "Atomic Cafe".
Ahh..the meat wagon! No aid, just throw you in and hope you survive the trip! 😂
I remember watching these kinds of films in school. I always thought the narration was as criminally negligent as many of the drivers the films demonstrated. Talk about wooden ! Couldn't they practice delivering their lines a few times ? Anyway, I'd say that they should show videos like this to school kids nowadays except they'd probably get sued for showing the kids the truth and traumatizing them.
The two at the desk sound like graduates of the Evelyn Woodhead Spedriddin' Course.
@@MikeLawson-cj4kt haha ! yep !
Don’t believe they’re onboard with this idea.
@@fbksfrank4 Actually, I bet they are. The thing is they weren't professional actors/narrators. Those cops didn't have the time to go through multiple takes, and they basically just read their lines off a script board and that was it - done.
@TedBronson1918 I was thinking about the media, I'm not sure they were behind it...of course they could have just gotten to work and then the boss man rolled in with a special project.
Todays cars wouldn’t stand a fighting chance to those metallic beasts of yesteryear..no competition whatsoever.
The guys the beginning 😅 couldn't remember 8 lines and how he looked at every word before he said it 😅😅😅😅😅
WHAT A TERRIBLE WAY TO RUIN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CADILLAC 😢
Notice they never showed the Cadillac? Cost too much to wreck. Just some old junker on its side.
wow, cool classic cars. wonder what they would be worth today in mint condition.
I'm guessing a mint.
In mint condition the Cadillac would be $50K to $60K at auction. The 53 Plymouth isn't a popular car with collectors so it would be maybe $20K in good condition. (I have a 54 that I got for $3K) After the accident the Plymouth became a 1950 three window coupe. worth around $30K in good condition. The Cadillac became a 1939 Willys. I couldn't tell if it was a sedan or coupe. I don't have any idea what they are worth but the coupes are sought after for drag cars. The sedans are less valuable.
After that horrific head on collision the Plymouth only had minor front end damage. The Willys had none.
U didn’t even have to lock ur car back then !
I remember being shown these blood & guts films in driver's training nearly 60 years ago. Scared the beejesus out of me but nothing like the thought of having to drive an EV.
2 rules I've had since i received my drivers license 50 years ago. 1) trust no one. 2) expect anything.
Newest cars I see are 1953, maybe 1954 models. His Cadillac is a '52. Joe really had a serious problem. I've rarely head of someone drinking heavily early in the morning like that. No way did that Plymouth stand a chance in a head on with that 4400 pound Cadillac.
Today of course Grand Prairie is overpopulated with 180,000 people.
I used to drink that early... and almost as much. Wild Turkey 101. Fortunately, the LORD took that desire away from me 27 years ago.
@@Edward-bd8iy
It's been 12 since He's done that for me! 📵👍✝️
@@MattGuzman-ng2yx ...and you've done more actual LIVING in the past 12 years than you did all that time before, right? Jesus Christ really does give new life!
1955 Fords on the car carrier in downtown. Those were the newest. you have to look quick to see them
After the accident the drunk’s car went from a 1949 Cadillac to a 1929 something. Of course they wouldn’t crash a new-ish Cadillac.
Looks more like a 1951-52 Cadillac,then about a 1939-40 Buick? Plymouth was different,too? Went from a 1953-54 Cambridge to a 1951-52 Business Coupe.
The ambulance guys covered the victim completely while he was still alive - he was still bleeding so he sure wasn’t dead yet !
Better to be safe than sorry
I thought he had JUST DIED... W/that blood running out of his mouth... 😮
@@MattGuzman-ng2yx When the blood is still running the heart is still pumping - when the heart stops the blood stops running. THEN he’s dead.
...And this was apparently before teleprompters, or this jurisdiction couldn't see passing the cost on to the taxpayers (boy, those days are GONE!!)... It couldn't be more obvious that they didn't do their homework the days before so that they would come off Spit and Polished the day of!!!! 😆
This was the "golden age" of drink driving, no reliable breathalyzers until 1969 and alcohol limit of .15 which was hard to determine. It didn't start to significantly change until the late 80's when the body count got high enough.
Reminds me of an old instructional film entitled “Smegma on the Dashboard” or something close to that.
Ah, those were the days….
😆😁
This film was nothing compared to the old 1950's drivers ed films they used to show us in high school. When I was in high school all the muscle cars from the late 60's and early 70's where being sold off by the original owners as used cars, so there a lot of kids that had really fast cars in those days.
Those cars were also steel
This was a real surprise party.
Its amazing how many vehicles back then had BALD tires !!! 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚓🚓🚓🚓
Homer Simpson - “ It’s funny cause I don’t know him”.
All the fire dept guys were smiling as they carried the kid out on the stretcher - trying to act as if this whole thing was real. 😂
No wonder those cars had good bumpers back than. Being a stick shift, he popped the clutch leaving the motel, and banged the car in front of him. 😅
No door side mirrors, no seatbelts or car seats, what could possibly go wrong
Was the narrator at the beginning a gas station attendant, the breadman or the diaper service guy? Perhaps that good Samaritan truck driver?
Kid in the front seat ! No Seat Belt … boy where we stupid back then !
Dallas and Tarrant Counties were building like crazy in the 1950’s, building some of the most deadly road designs in the world: wide lanes, clear zones, lots of driveways. But this film blames the bottle.
Anyone who drinks and drives is an Irresponsible SOB!!
No mirrors on the cars? I knew they were doomed!!
by the time they find a pencil and paper write down the plate and get to a pay phone the guy has already bought and sold the car for a newer one and has two kids lol
My dad had a 59 Chevy. During the summer he'd take all of the local neighbor kids to the dairy queen. I would stand on the front seat as a 4 year old. I'm not sure they even had seatbelts??
They didn't. My first car was a '54 Chevy 4 door. I bought it as a teenager in 1975. No seat belts. I wish I had that car now.
There is a crash test on TH-cam, 1959 Chev Belair vs a 2009 Chef Malibu..........
2023. People still having crashes and bots presenting it.
We watch these movies I. The 50s
I love the naration at the begining and end. 😂 It was obvious these were real peolpe and not actors.
@ 11:48 I think that guy is blinking "T-O-U-R-T-U-R-E" in morse-code.
If he’s illiterate, yes.
@@e28forever30 Ha! Priceless comment! Well done!
Nice typical re-creation film for educational purposes.
Also, how would you like to be on diaper detail?
No side view mirrors? 😮
optional back then. And only on the driver's side unless you really paid extra.
Words fail me.
Uvalde was Always Cursed!
Why?
@@The1trueking1966 This Wreck...and, the mass shooting-decades later.
Uvalde Const Co. Dallas @6:58
Also Texas Bitulithic,now part of Austin Paving & Construction,and Temco Aircraft,which was later part of Ling-Temco-Vaught,then Chance-Vaught,then General Dynamics,then Martin-Marietta....which for many years was about the biggest employer in Grand Prairie?
any one know where in Dallas this is?
It looks like it was in multiple locations. One shot of the Tower Hotel Courts was at 10108 Harry Hines. bigberthasadventures.com/2020/12/13/tower-hotel-courts-on-harry-hines-in-dallas-texas-part-1/
Grand Prairie State Bank was on Main st. in Grand Prairie. And it was an Irving Fire Truck at the scene.
@@gphotx thank you.
Yes on the western outskirts of Dallas between Dallas and Fort Worth Texas.
Wreck looks as if was filmed on the west side of Irving,somewhere around Belt Line Road,or southeast Irving on what is now MacArthur Blvd. Both locations on the southern end are near the Grand Prairie city limits which means at the time both cities might've 'rolled' on it per Mutual Aid.
OHHH jeez, they still can't read a script, like the films in school......two pictures.....BING......two pictures........BING........
Its fake
Prove it
So its a bit old 🤔 reuse them in drivers ed to show what will happen to bad they don't offer drivers ed any more