I just watched this for the first time.
I almost couldn't watch the whole video.
After it was over, the first thing I did was I got up, found my two small children, and held them tight.
I thank God I haven't had to live through something like this.
But I think everyone should watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKm0s2xi3YU# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKm0s2xi3YU#)
I hate to say it, but I don't think watching this would positively affect the driving of 99% of the A-holes I see driving like dicks every morning and night on the way to and from daycare, work, and my home.
Shocking. Rightfully so.
Reminds me of the anti-texting PSA from England (this compilation may have used one or two scenes from it).
Quote from: mraff on May 07, 2010, 03:19:22 PM
I hate to say it, but I don't think watching this would positively affect the driving of 99% of the A-holes I see driving like dicks every morning and night on the way to and from daycare, work, and my home.
Well, if nothing else, it will remind us that those a-holes are out there.
But if you affect just 1%, isn't it worth it?
Yes, but 99% was optimistic on my part.................
I just recently posted on the DFWM board about this crap. http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=40366 (http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=40366)
Heads up people! Put the f#@king cell phone down! How important is that call? Texting? God damn, most folks can barely drive their car in a reasonable fashion and stay in their lane. Add the distraction of kids in the car, lane competition and cell phone/texting crap... recipe for someone getting killed! I see nothing but more riders being killed as long as this goes on. Hell, it's a combat zone on the best day. Just don't want to add cell phone/dumbass/distracted drivers! Maybe a law that let's me shoot them would make things better! [laugh] Make sense to me! [thumbsup]
Quote from: kopfjäger on May 07, 2010, 08:11:09 PM
why?
Aside from the safety awareness aspect of this video and how easy it is for someone to be killed by simple distractions, I think it's important to put life into its proper perspective.
I don't dwell on the negative side of things, but I try to remember to be grateful for what I have. I try to remember to keep my wife happy and feeling appreciated every day, and I try to remember to put aside my hobbies and spend more time playing with my children.
There's simply no appreciation from the general public for how difficult it is to operate a motor vehicle safely at speed. The human brain does not multitask well, despite what anyone thinks, and driving requires a lot of multitasking. Add any extra conversation, nail painting, reading, web surfing or whatever and you leave zero room to react if the environment changes suddenly.
Yesterday I was driving to the place next to the river I like to skate at, doing about 50, I came around a corner and all of a sudden there was a silver sports car staring me in the face. Seems the guy going the other way got impatient and crossed the double yellow to pass the car in front of him. I had to swerve to avoid a head on collision. I shudder to think of how closely I came to being one of the scenarios in that video.
Sad thing is, he probably went home still thinking he was in the right. People don't change.
The worst thing I've seen is still Porsche Girl.
If you're the type of person who needs to see this shit to scare yourself into riding/driving responsibly, look for those crash images. Easy to find, awful story.
Yup "dumb" kills
Texting and driving is the new terror,,,, I am always on the horn at traffic lights because the light is green and the idiot in front of me has their head down looking at the little screen thumbing away...and I look at them driving and thumbing on the roads...it is farking insane
I am amazed at how many people can't stand to be alone with the smell of their own meaningless thoughts for more than 30 seconds
I resent the fact that people get bent out of shape if they can't yammer at you the very second they want to....the new expectation of "always accessible" is horrid....I like boundaries and borders the misuse of our technology has engendered this artificial sense of urgency that is mindless if considered rationally
Life and death are urgent matters all else is contrived
I resent when someone calls me from their car because they are stuck in traffic and want to kill time...FARK YOU!! I now ask if they are stuck alone in the car in traffic and if they say yes I tell them to find another way to kill time and to not use me as a distraction
I miss having down time, I miss not having to wonder who might be trying to reach me when my cell is turned off
well this is turning into a Luddite Unabomber rant so I must stop
Actually that was one of the best versed posts I have read on this topic. Well said. I have friends and a putzy brother in law that would go into seizures if they weren't on the phone or texting. You wouldn't believe the pissed off voice mails the brother in law leaves when we don't/can't answer of phones... cell or home. He fits your description to a "T". And my wife thinks my cell phone is an electronic ankle monitor (she an ex-probation offficer!! [roll]) who also gets mad when she can't instantly reach me. Even when I am on motorcycle rides!!! Hello, I'm riding the bike... the cell is turned off and in a jacket pocket!!
Oh well, space is good. I like silence and borders too. Maybe I should just leave my ear plugs in after rides! [laugh]
Be careful out there people. [thumbsup]
Quote from: NoisyDante on May 08, 2010, 10:51:55 AM
The worst thing I've seen is still Porsche Girl.
Of this i must know more! Linky to original post perhaps??
Quote from: orangelion03 on May 08, 2010, 05:31:36 PM
Of this i must know more! Linky to original post perhaps??
Nah, you don't. Trust me. Just no upside to checking that out.
guess I'll be the different one.........
Those videos are make the beast with two backsing retarded and are a waste of time to watch.
They are really really bad horror movies. The acting is bad. The side effects are worse.
Don't text and drive. How make the beast with two backsing hard is it?
Quote from: orangelion03 on May 08, 2010, 05:31:36 PM
Of this i must know more! Linky to original post perhaps??
There are many sites on the topic, just do a google search. I can't bring myself to revisit that. And as Factorplayer said, you might find you really don't want to know more.
Quote from: orangelion03 on May 08, 2010, 05:31:36 PM
Of this i must know more! Linky to original post perhaps??
just google it.
picures are very graphic.
the basic story is that the girl took her dad's convertible porsche and was doing 100+ when she hit another car, lost control, he car went airborne and she landed upside down against a toll booth.
Quote from: cyrus buelton on May 09, 2010, 06:51:38 AM
guess I'll be the different one.........
Those videos are make the beast with two backsing retarded and are a waste of time to watch.
They are really really bad horror movies. The acting is bad. The side effects are worse.
Don't text and drive. How make the beast with two backsing hard is it?
+1 [thumbsup]
Just yesterday driving the car on the way home from visiting my parents with my pregnant wife and our little boy I was driving though the neighborhood. Stopped at a stop sign, and then turned left, and a little girl about 6yrs old came zipping out of a driveway which was lined with bushes right up to the street and went stright across the street on her little razor scooter into the nieghhbor's driveway across the street where her little friend was waiting. If I hadn't stopped, or had only slowed down, or even had pulled away from the stop sign really fast I would have hit her. Even if I had been going the speed limit of 25mph (I was only going about 10-12 b/c I was pulling away from the sign) there wouldn't have been time to react. She came from the left side of the street, and there still wouldn't have been time to react if I had been drving like an idiot. I had to sit and think about that for a while when I got home.
The Doc
Quote from: Doctor Woodrow on May 10, 2010, 09:55:57 AM
Just yesterday driving the car on the way home from visiting my parents with my pregnant wife and our little boy I was driving though the neighborhood. Stopped at a stop sign, and then turned left, and a little girl about 6yrs old came zipping out of a driveway which was lined with bushes right up to the street and went stright across the street on her little razor scooter into the nieghhbor's driveway across the street where her little friend was waiting. If I hadn't stopped, or had only slowed down, or even had pulled away from the stop sign really fast I would have hit her. Even if I had been going the speed limit of 25mph (I was only going about 10-12 b/c I was pulling away from the sign) there wouldn't have been time to react. She came from the left side of the street, and there still wouldn't have been time to react if I had been drving like an idiot. I had to sit and think about that for a while when I got home.
The Doc
That's some bad parenting about teaching your children to cross the street.
There is nothing you could have probably done. I kind of look at it with a deer running across the road.
you should have honked loudly and made the kid learn a lesson on how to look before crossing.. obviously not hit the kid or harm them, but just startle them so that they know that they should have looked. a good scare is sometimes necessary.
Quote from: Major Moose Humper on May 09, 2010, 12:26:34 PM
just google it.
picures are very graphic.
the basic story is that the girl took her dad's convertible porsche and was doing 100+ when she hit another car, lost control, he car went airborne and she landed upside down against a toll booth.
Thanks...I'll pass. I thought it was perhaps some incident that Dante had had with a cager.
Yeah, as stated before, the video is a rehash of many older PSAs from Europe. While gore and scare tactics like that will work on some, it's still just a video. None of it is real footage. Many people won't learn to be safe until they see the consequences first hand. People can be stupid like that.
Quote from: orangelion03 on May 08, 2010, 05:31:36 PM
Of this i must know more! Linky to original post perhaps??
think of the Lockwood Valley Rd Miata mashup you were telling me about... the guy and his daughter.
now think of how lucky they were, and imagine it 20million times worse
^^ Go it! :o
Quote from: erkishhorde on May 10, 2010, 01:39:55 PM
Yeah, as stated before, the video is a rehash of many older PSAs from Europe. While gore and scare tactics like that will work on some, it's still just a video. None of it is real footage. Many people won't learn to be safe until they see the consequences first hand. People can be stupid like that.
a bit of that footage is real:
00:48 to 00:53
01:32 to 01:40
01:40 to 01:50...a touch of photochop help in this one I'm thinking, the people must have vaporized
03:24 to 03:38
03:50 to 04:18
04:47 to 04:55
05:42 to 06:55
I think these are great
as a once viewed video, no they are not effective
but
if we ran them non stop on TV they would be
long enough to let the shock value fade for the soft and the denial to fade for the callous
let the reality of them become plain to everyone and they might do some good
Last week, a mother had just left the daycare and was on her way to take her 5 year old to his karate class. She was in her minivan with him, her 3 year old son and her 5 month old daughter.
A guy had just left work and was eager to make the light...well he didn't. Instead he chose to run the red light and t-boned the minivan with so much force that it pushed it up into the parking lot of the daycare and into a 3rd vehicle. All 4 victims in the minivan were taken to the hospital as were the 2 in the 3rd vehicle that was hit. The driver of the truck was treated and released.
Wednesday the 5 month old passed away. Thursday the 5 year old passed. The mother and the 3rd child are both still in the hospital. The mother in critical but stable condition. The son in fair condition.
After checking the driver's record of the guy who caused all of this, it was found out he had several suspensions and accidents in his past. Including a suspension because he, and I quote the DOT, "is unable to operate a motor vehicle in a safe manner".
http://www.kcci.com/news/23523163/detail.html (http://www.kcci.com/news/23523163/detail.html)