"THey said the guy without the seatbelt did the damage." - NO HE DIDN'T!

You totaly missed the point of the ad then ?

what ad?

It's typical Ireland.
One woman is braindamaged.
3 people dead.
One guy who's DEAD get's the blame for what happened.

There's NO MENTION of the fact that the guy (or woman but from the driving we'll say guy) in the BMW actually caused the accident.
NONE!

It's like saying, "look wear yer seatbelt because ye never know when some moron who shouldn't be on the road is gonna come rocketing down the middle of a small, windey country lane and end you life."

I mean, ok fair enough, it's true.
Because we're hopeless drivers, I await a national safety council ad with some braindead jock wrapping his tarted-up honda civic around a pole @ 130mph and the caption, "yer dead and you deserve to be you wreckless braindead asshole- you also killed three people in another car who actually WERE wearing their seatbelts, airbags and armbands- you still killed them, your rear spoiler is now encrusted with blood - burn in hell you little ****!"

How's about that for a responsible and fitting advertisment for road safety.

peachypants will you lay of the pussies thing?
It was A, an attempt @ humour, B an observation that amoung Irish ppl not wearing seatbelts is still seen as pointless let alone in the back seat.

The issue is this- dumbass without a seatbelt, that's not really the issue is it?
He should be wearing his seatbelt- fair enough. We get the point, but it's a pretty stupidly made point. A rather simple, crash, fly thrpugh window, shoulder knocks head of frontside passanger, guy goes flying through windscreen- bam fronside passanger dead, bam, guy goes sailing thru windshield- and hey, let's not have the "hip" music please!

Sleepy, my dad's lived outside the country since I was three so no that's not the point @ all. I always wear my seatbelt, go back to sleep will ye?

qwertyphobia's completly right of course.
Ireland's getting like a mucksavage-microcosm of the Fox news fearmachine.
I put on the news, this will kill you, so will that, so will these and of course those.
A European study says we're this this and this, we do too much of this, not enough of that and even if we aren't all alcoholic sex deviants who smoke ciggarettes who sleep on the job, eat too much fatty food, don't exercise enough and every food additive doesn't poison us, or a tsunami of twenty tons of rubbish suddenly becomes sentient and decides to smother us in our own filth we still got Radon gas to contend with. That's RTE news every night of the ****ing week. Not to mention the public safety ads telling us to wash our hands, wipe our arse, slow down, speed up, not look at a bitta skirt, not send text messages, etc, etc...

Pumping us full of fear, giving us ever more gruesome images of road-carnage during prime time hours isn't going to make ppl go, "oh! I better put on my seatbelt. Even having the cops harrass us and remove "points" ain't gonna do it. Make the damn driving test harder! I mean hey, it's easy for me to pick up my rules of the road handbook and learn the **** and then forget it because I don't have to worry about it because I already have my licence. In the same way as I forgot 99% of the crap I leanred in school because I passed my leaving and later dropped out of college.

You ask most people what the remember from that ad it's the crunch and the even more sickening "body to body" track. INFORMING people is a lot better than scaring the bejayzuz out of em. It's preferable to try and explain the dangers in a sensible manner. It's also nice to think that somewhere @ governmental level, there's somebody who thinks, "Hey! maybe everyone in this country isn't a moron after all!" (just a large majority)
You know, they might as well say to us, "WEAR YOUR SEATBELT OR THE BOOGIEMAN WILL GET YOU!"

Besides, whatever happened to common sense?
I never get into a car without wearing a seatbelt. I'm not the problem.
The problem is the people who can't drive.

We shouldn't be lectured about these things, we should KNOW them.

Here's my new slogan, "OI! MORONS! COP THE **** ON LIKE!"- from the National Safety Council supported by the Beer Baron.

(Oh and jongore, I am right so nyeeaah!)

In the same way footage of enervated African babies being eaten alive by flies raises awareness about famine in Africa- it kinda looses its effectiveness after the first 11,000 times you see it.

There's better ways to go about it.

Like for speeding, not actually having speed traps on main motorways so we slow down when we see a cop but actually having them arrest people who speed on small country roads or, like right outside the place where I work where I was almost knocked down 3 separate times- it's a small alley, with busy streets @ either side- cars just rocket down there full speed, whilst they crawl on motorways.

What's goin' on like?

tbh these ppl should be arrested but won't.
Enlightened road safety campaigns, rather than scaremongering, and a tougher clampdown on offenders not just on busy motorways where the cops are easily avoided.