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By *umour OP Couple
over a year ago
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We all make mistakes and most get away with it. Whether driving a car, riding a bike or walking, we are all guilty of silly actions.
Just found this on Youtube and wondered why the individual adverts (or similar for this country) are not shown on television!
I have watched it 8 times now, know what is coming and still makes me emotional...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7lCM9ElUqQ&feature=related
Perhaps they wouldn't work? What do you think? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Think they would. They hit deep.
My son lost his best friend in such an accident just after they had spent the holiday of a lifetime together in Miami and his whole life in front of him. Just lucky my son was not with him that evening.
I lost my best friend as a little girl when she was knocked down coming out from behind an ice cream van.
My brother his best mate when he came off his own bike not wearing a crash helmet.
So much unecessary heartbreak.
I used a similar pull on my kids when they first started driving by making them imagine what would happen and how they would feel if someone stepped out in front of them suddenly and they hit them. Certainly made them drive more slowly. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The problem for me with the youtube clip is, after many years of CGI and special effects the clips, although look harrowing and realistic, I know they are all just films - nobody dies.
Feel it is very hard to shock people these days. |
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By *umour OP Couple
over a year ago
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We also lost a family member, our nephew to a moments madness! He was designated driver for a few mates and four of them set off for St Albans. A guy coming the other way pressed his Nitrous button and came out from behind a Ford Ka like a rocket....
I think they would work, a small study in the States of young kids shown a vid about texting whist driving, also not real, made them sit up and take notice. That vid was british as well.. If it only stops one person on one day taking the chance.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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ive just done the driver awareness training instead of having points on my licence...id recommend it to anyone ... its certainly given me a wake up call !! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We all make mistakes and most get away with it. Whether driving a car, riding a bike or walking, we are all guilty of silly actions.
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This part of your post is the biggest reason why it would never work. As a society we have a fucked up attitude towards driving. It is seen as a right not a privelege and the attitude that most accidents are through silly mistakes as opposed to careless, reckless or downright dangerous actions is all part of the problem. The fact that many types of motoring offenses are usually treated with sympathy, the fact that fatl accidents are more likely to be reported for the travel congestion caused... I could go on but the problem is not omething that will be solved by TV adverts in the same way that smoking adverts rarely work. |
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I beleive the basic error is not recognising that you are actually driving a highly dangerous weapon. A massive bulky thing with the multiplied weight of motion behind it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I beleive the basic error is not recognising that you are actually driving a highly dangerous weapon. A massive bulky thing with the multiplied weight of motion behind it."
Totally agree. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I beleive the basic error is not recognising that you are actually driving a highly dangerous weapon. A massive bulky thing with the multiplied weight of motion behind it."
Exactly. No one would gossip, text or do their make up whilst pointing a loaded gun at a crowd of people, yet they're quite happy to do so whilst driving a car which is potentially more dangerous. |
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i have been driving just a year now and when i was on my lessons i would have moments of real fear where i felt such a huge responsibility sitting behind the wheel and i even toyed with giving up as i wasn't sure i could cope with that resposibility but i didn't give up and i passed a year ago and i'm ashamed to say that that feeling kinda left me in a short space of time and i have not taken my responsibility seriously enough and i do speed and i do take risks and i can honestly say right now i feel ashamed. i have spent many an hour giving momma lectures to my boys too about how dangerous driving is and how seriously it should be taken and how they should never distract their mates when they are passengers or even if they have a mate they feel drives like a twat then they should tell them as much and hope this shames them into driving better and not even consider a lift with them, yet in someways i had become the twat driver and even though never with someone in the car with me its not just my car that is at risk from my driving
i watched that advert and actually sat mouth open hand over it crying, i know its CGI but it hit me hard seriously hard it has taken me a good 10 mins to compose myself enough to post this and i have to say thankyou for bringing this to my attention
i seriously wish it was shown on TV it might not effect everyone the same way it did me but if it does just a small percentage then at least the roads will a little bit safer, after all every puddle starts as one raindrop |
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I went to a funeral on Monday of a lady who was knocked off her bike a couple of weeks ago in Edinburgh. She was amazing at 75 years old, cycled 100 miles a week and it's all over because of someone else's carelessness. That driver will have to live with that for the rest of their life. My parents cycle about 300 miles a week. They've both had pretty severe accidents this year and I'm pretty sure that one day I'm going to be on the receiving end of one of those phone calls.
I'm not sure that making drivers watch a video will have any impact. A lot of the time they are young and know it all. A clip of that happening to someone else may make them think for a little while but it will soon be a distant memory. The person who hit our friend will never have the accident as a distant memory. I would imagine that will be a very clear memory for a very long time.
I would like to see new drivers (and old ones for that matter) being made to ride a bike on the road as part of the driving test. To cycle amongst traffic would give a much clearer picture as to just how scary it can be. Whilst I appreciate that there are cyclists who don't follow the highway code, equally I'd like to enforce that they did.
Life is short... we should look after it better than we do.  |
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