This video is saddening, disturbing, yet too accurate as it is not just portrayals but also traffic cameras all over the world catching horrific images of vehicular devastation. People, I beg every one of you to consider your driving habits, then review this video. This is a video of reckless drivers, distracted drivers, aggressive drivers, DUIs, all things bad that drivers can do and the cost of the wrong possible choices and circumstances. Just because you've dodged the bullet once doesn't mean this won't happen. Maybe it won't even be your own driving that could cause this, so you must also be aware of those around you.
Please, I've already lost one friend to his own recklessness behind the wheel, and his death still haunts me to this day. I don't want to lose another without a fight!
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-az1smQMWHYk/unsafe_driving/
after watching this for a second time I am happy to say wow. Hollywood is good. There are a few aerial and traffic cams but the impact ads are thankfully orchestrated for effect. Prolly by MADD in my guess. Doesn't ease the OMG! factor but it really does make me a little more at ease after watching it.
..... I had to stop from the first minute........ the woman with the baby was too much for me being a mother of a 6 month old......
Makes ya more thoughtful to buckle the baby up when drivin' eh?
I thought the lady in the red jeep who got rear ended by the dude talking on the cell was bad. He forced her to hit the mom n' the kid saw it all. That got to me.
I don't have a licence so that isn't an issue, of course she sits safe and secure when we go somewhere in a car. just the wagon tipping over onto the street was just too much. It brought tears to my eyes... it was as if was watching it in slow motion... made me think what if that was my child...
Would that be the conglomeration of various "buckle up/slow down/etc" ads? Sounds it, if so it's been doing the rounds on Farcebook along with a video and news article strongly advising people to keep their babies/kids rearward facing til 2, or 4, depending on whether you get the video (which advises that "2 is the new 1" or the news article (which states that rearward facing is safest fo children under 4).
I got force diverted around the aftermath of an accident while driving home from homeschool group a couple of months ago, and (probably fortunately) my three had fallen asleep on the drive. Traffic had slowed to a crawl and when I finally got to where they'd blocked off there were two cars parallel and at 45deg to the flow of traffic. One in the unfortunate position of being upside down. An ambulance was hooning off when I got there and the traffic cops weren't looking terribly happy. It was close to a junction so my guess, someone completely failed at looking before they decided to turn out into traffic.
Moral, learn how to drive.
They have hoon laws over here whereby cars can be seized (and crushed on a subsequent offence) from people who can't seem to comprehend the very basic concepts of responsibility and use of brakes. I sometimes wonder if a more effective curb would be to revoke the license and cars of offenders and add them to a register to have massive penalties fall on the heads of the next person who sells them a car. Would then make it really hard for them to buy a car and forces society to be socially responsible to a degree :)
I did actually see this topic when it was first posted, opted not to respond then as I got preoccupied thinking about my husband's cousin who used to make a habit of not wearing his seatbelt when he drove around the place. He lived out in the country area where the speed limit on the highways is 110kph but people go faster. Got into a car accident and...well...would have been 24 this year if he'd survived.
You guys should be glad you don't live up here in Alaska.. nobody's spiffy survery may say so, but we're one of the worst for DUIs and generally stupid drivers who deserve their heads stuffed up their asses. Last week some teenage deliquent (and yes, I speak this as a teenager myself) nearly ran over a woman and her baby in a stroller. HOW THE F_ck DO YOU NOT SEE A WOMAN AND A STROLLER?!
Of course, this probably has to do with the fact that we let people start learning how to drive at 14. Once they turn 15, we let them loose. Dumb, dumb dumb dumb.
There wouldn't be anything wrong with that if they had the maturity level to cope with the responsibility. Problem is people are quite happy to bang on about their self entitled rights but responsibility? Someone else's fault, every time, because "nobody told me".
Thank GOD my car is equipped with a device that allows me to say the name of the person I want to call and it dials the number and I can focus on the road ahead of me. If I'm too far gone into boozer-ville when I'm out with friends, we make damned sure we have a designated driver, preferably one of our friends that has no desire to drink. That person is always my BFF since I was in diapers who watched her dad wither away from alcohol related illnesses. Either that or my uncle who is always a phone call away. Everything is arranged down to the detail and nothing is left to chance. Just wish people would think ahead and arrange a ride home with a friend or call a damned cab. Leave your car outside the bar you're drinking at and get in a cab or on the bus and go home; go back the next day to get your car!