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new RSA ad

  • 10-05-2011 9:50pm
    #1
    robtri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭


    just seen the new RSA ad... and for once no young male drivers at fault.....

    cant find it on youtube yet... interesting...
    girls in car driver texting and has a head on collison


Comments

  • #2
    Buffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭Buffman


    I'm guessing this is the one you're talking about. This is the original Welsh long version from a few years ago which the RSA is now using.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E

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  • #3
    woodturner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭woodturner


    Its about time they stopped portraying males as the main cause of all road accidents. The exact same accident happened a few years ago on the main Tullamore to Portarlington although it wasn't caused by being on a mobile.


  • #4
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Just after seeing it there! Another horrific one. Its actually quite good and i think it will have an effect

    Didnt see the long above though - got goosebumps watching it


  • #5
    Buffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭Buffman


    Ye, it's actually part of a 30 minute film called 'COW', after the driver who's name is Cassie Cowan.

    FYI, if you move to a 'smart' meter electricity plan, you CAN'T move back to a non-smart plan.

    You don't have to take a 'smart' meter if you don't want one, opt-out is available.

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  • #6
    doopa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭doopa


    robtri wrote: »
    just seen the new RSA ad... and for once no young male drivers at fault.....

    cant find it on youtube yet... interesting...
    girls in car driver texting and has a head on collison

    Lost count of the number of times I've nearly been taken out on my bike by young ladies on their phones. (Not saying men don't do either, but it has happened far less frequently)


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  • #7
    robtri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    Buffman wrote: »
    I'm guessing this is the one you're talking about. This is the original Welsh long version from a few years ago which the RSA is now using.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E

    thats the one... yeah.. thanks


  • #8
    B00MSTICK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭B00MSTICK


    Wasn't this already screened in the cinema or something?

    I can remember it being discussed anyway, someone mentioned that Ford wouldn't be happy with the Ka crashing into the Mondeo...

    Or perhaps someone just posted it as an example of a good ad, I'm pretty sure I've seen it on here before though.


  • #9
    Buffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭Buffman


    B00MSTICK wrote: »
    I can remember it being discussed anyway, someone mentioned that Ford wouldn't be happy with the Ka crashing into the Mondeo...

    Ye, and then they get creamed by a Fiesta driving on the wrong side of the road aswell!
    B00MSTICK wrote: »
    Or perhaps someone just posted it as an example of a good ad, I'm pretty sure I've seen it on here before though.

    Ye, you probably did see it before, it's been around a while. But the RSA have only recently started using it on TV.

    FYI, if you move to a 'smart' meter electricity plan, you CAN'T move back to a non-smart plan.

    You don't have to take a 'smart' meter if you don't want one, opt-out is available.

    Buy drinks in 3L or bigger plastic bottles or glass bottles or cartons to avoid the DRS fee.



  • #10
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,352 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    B00MSTICK wrote: »
    I can remember it being discussed anyway, someone mentioned that Ford wouldn't be happy with the Ka crashing into the Mondeo...

    One big takeaway from the RSA add campaigns over the years was that people die in Fords. Many years ago there was an add with the catch line of 'Let's stop the bloody slaughter' or something along those lines featuring a slightly disguised Sierra. Later, there was the Escort hitting the Granada/Scorpio in the 'they say it was the guy without the seatbelt who did the damage' episode. Now this.

    There was a reprieve for Ford when a Nissan Primera featured in the episode designed to scare the **** out of kids playing football in the back garden, but the sole occupant in that car survived the impact. The other ones that spring to mind was the young lad in the Megane Coupe who creamed a pedestrian while checking out a girl and the Honda Civic that takes out the couple sitting on the wall, again with the occupants of the car surviving.


  • #11
    rachos89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭rachos89


    speaking as a young lady driver I'd never text while driving!I can't even change stations on the radio! Eyes on the road at all times folks :D On the subject of the RSA ads though, I can't watch them, they freak me out too much. Which I suppose means they're both effective and ineffective, in that they scare me into good driving but the later campaigns are totally lost on me because I can't bring myself to watch them :P


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  • #12
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    alias no.9 wrote: »
    Many years ago there was an add with the catch line of 'Let's stop the bloody slaughter' or something along those lines featuring a slightly disguised Sierra.
    Has anyone a link to that ad?

    I can still here the song, 'What a wonderful world' playing in the background


  • #13
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    jaysis

    pretty bad stuff!

    I always look at how safe a car is before i would buy one. Fiestas and Ka's are basically coffins with wheels.


  • #14
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Considering they didn't make it themselves, I suppose it has some hope of actually being useful....


  • #15
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Feckin wimmen drivers.. :mad:



    :pac:


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