Speeding Ads

FirA_Serjio

omg, the newer ads of speeding/drinking and driving/or not wearing seat belts are just getting more and more gruesome, like i dont mind it or anything, but dontcha think the government are taking it a bit far with all that blood in daytime with our poor children watching the teletubbies and den being traumitized to just play out backgardens. all those ads do is make drivers more scared, i dont actually drive but thats wat i imagine

sceptre

They're taking their cue from an Australian campaign (NSW I think though it could have been another part of Oz) that started a few years ago - lots of gore in the adverts resulted in a noticeable drop in accidents as a result of mindless speeding. Of course in Australia they probably have more than four working fixed cameras and 180 cops assigned to road law compliance measures)

I'm a little concerned at the fact that every advert I've seen features a young fella behind the wheel. I'm 28 and getting to the age where I can make that statement without anyone accusing me of benig blinkered towards the problem. (that's not to say that a 22 year old making the same comment wouldn't be just as correct). Some young blokes speed quite a bit, so do some balding salesmen in company cars, some people in white vans and even ordinary people (including women) over the age of 25.

I'm more interested in the NSC reshowing a series of adverts showing people how to indicate and how to use roundabouts properly (which from my own experience many people just can't do)

I didn't realise they were showing the adverts during kiddie telly. Obviously it isn't only kids who watch these shows (Boomerang and Nickelodeon are among my Sky preset channels for a reason:D) but it's more than a little inappropriate to have these adverts shown during shows that are aimed at children.

Mossy Monk

i thought that these ads weren't allowed to be shown before 9pm.

anyway, if they are gruesome and get the message across then that's good.

something needs to be done about the roads in this country too. most of them are in such a shocking state, they must have thought that the horse and cart would be around forever. it's good to see that the road tax is being spent wisely :mad:

FirA_Serjio

oh yeah i just realised that in all these speed ads the person who created deaths or injuries or whatever is a male........ i blame eircom:ninja:

woolymammoth

i've noticed that too. *every* add for dangerous driving/not
wearing seatbelt, portrays a young male. for instance the fella in
the back seat kills his g/f. nobody seems to notice the car that
smashed into them, most likely driven by an 80 yr old who can't
see properally anymore, or the other car that smashes into the
back of them, probably driven by a woman. who knows. all we
see is a young male in the wrong. again.

imho, adds need to be ever more gruesome, but more
importantly, need to portray real ppl getting seriously injured and
killed, not the typical stereotype of a young male. maybe then ppl
will slow down.

oh and yeah, i blame eircom too. good call FirA_Serjio

mavedic

the ads are great i think, but could be extended to people other than young males. I'd say old people are the cause of a lot of accidents. It would be good if they could have ads on people having accidents due to using their mobile phones while driving, or leaning to get something in the back of the car, or bad indicating ... all things that contribute towards accidents which people do all the time.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by woolymammoth
nobody seems to notice the car that
smashed into them

i remember the 1st time i saw that ad and thinking "what about the ****ing idiot driving on the wrong side of the road"

woolymammoth

exactly what i thought. but everyone i said it to said "oh yeah,
never thought of that!". all they saw was, wait for it, yes, the
young male havin an accident and killing someone. go figure. :rolleyes:

Spacedog

The one with michael hitting his girlfriend so hard... has that Samantha Mumba (mangeled) cover of Major Tom. Did Bowie have to give his permission for his work to be assoiated with road death? Also The idea of having music in the ads is so if your driving and the song comes on the radio, it will remind people and they'll slow down. The Road Safety Councel should release their own drivetime album, withs hits like 'Shall I tell you about my life', 'I want to walk you home' and my personal faverote 'Slow the f**k down you blind, 80 yearold, mobile talkin, makup puttin on in the rearview mirror, goin round a sharp bend in the wrongside of the road with no indicators on a**hole!'

Epitaph

It's Ashes to Ashes you're thinking off, Spacedog.

*weeps and heaves at the thought of a Louis-Walsh-butchering of Space Oddity*


What about the poor tree in the latest ad? No-one cares about the poor tree that was probably put to sleep after those young snots wrapped their iron horseless carraige around it's noble trunk.

Did they show the poor squirrels and birdies getting thrown out of their home just because some lad wanted to catch big air? No, it's all about YOU.

You humans make me sick. Keep your water, we'll find it elsewhere.

sceptre

Originally posted by Spacedog
withs hits like 'Shall I tell you about my life',

just FYI, it's "Man of the World" by Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, not the munchin', talkin', pill poppin' Stevie Nicks group it mutated into).

BKtje

There was a complaint to RTE over one of those ads being shown during kids tv shows a while back.
RTE appologised for their mistake and said that they werent supposed to be shown before 7 or 8 (coulda been 9 i guess, cant really remember).

They could have at least made the guy in the backseat who killed his girlfriend a woman killing a man. Women are just as bad at now wearing seat belts in the back as men and it woulda made us young lads feel a little better

Ads should continue if they help.

Elmo

They're taking their cue from an Australian campaign

I never got why they copied the Australian campaign since RTE ran an add of the same kind during the early 1990's.

You know the one with the little girl walking along some country back roads and the driver starts to speed up and knocks her down. red car. The song was "I see feilds of green". What a wonderful world.

It was before the Oz adds anyway.

weemcd

young lads driving around in their "modded" cars have "special" seatbelts- meaning they'll wear them. i was in a van with a guy smoking, holding a cup of tea not wearing a seat belt and hed been up all night- that's dangerous. ads need to include other **** drivers and not just pick on the corsa generation

mike65

Originally posted by sceptre
They're taking their cue from an Australian campaign (NSW I think though it could have been another part of Oz) that started a few years ago - lots of gore in the adverts resulted in a noticeable drop in accidents as a result of mindless speeding. Of course in Australia they probably have more than four working fixed cameras and 180 cops assigned to road law compliance measures)

They take road safety seriously down under check the page link below and look in particular at the breath test and speeding stats! Thats for 1 day!!

http://www.police.qld.gov.au/pr/news/media/2002/mar/specials/stats.shtml

Mike.