That one road safety ad.

WindSock · 07-05-2010 09:37AM

Scien wrote: »

At least they work though.

The phrase 'getting a shiver down your spine' is sometimes used as just a figure of speech. Watching this Ad for the first time is one of the genuine times I experienced it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM

I came here to post that. That's a great ad. Much more effective than the shock horror ones.

Also the shock ones are horrible for car crash victims, it brings up a lot of post trauma.

KamiKazi · 07-05-2010 09:53AM

Fago! wrote: »

Only irresponsible pricks speed and this ad will hopefully get through to them.

Interesting post.

How do those blinkers fit you? They OK? Good stuff.

WindSock · 07-05-2010 10:03AM

TPD wrote: »

Dumbledore dies?

It BeeMee wrote: »

He was stuck into a young wan against a wall when he was hit by a car.

Dumbledore's straight?

Cookie_Monster · 07-05-2010 10:08AM

Fago! wrote: »

Having watched those ads, I know if I ever began to drive, I wouldn't speed.
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That's what I thought and then started to drive, that theory went out the window pretty fast.

That one were the guy is squashed against the wall and his GF is so stupid. The guy in the car is safely overtaking on a road with a broken line, to imply its his fault is a bit much. He should, of course, just splattered the dog all over the place rather than swerving, but it still stupidly overdramatic.

shakencat · 07-05-2010 10:09AM

Dravokivich wrote: »

We have a "Driving School" in Ireland?

I thought it was just a bunch of private instructors...

some kids thing.
i went in like.. 4th class.

with bikes..
go karts..
and then just people..

i think its gone now..

its to teach kids rules of the road..

Sanjuro · 07-05-2010 10:11AM

Jeebus wrote: »

Also, when I was dragged to the last Harry Potter movie, a similar car crash ad was shown before the movie, as I remember it showed two guys being stuck in a car. Kids were crying all over the shop, and that was before Dumbledore even died.

Sounds like an awesome screening! Hillarious!

Funkfield · 07-05-2010 10:14AM

The most disturbing road safety add I ever saw was an anti drink-driving add from Australia.

Very short and very effective.

It showed actual footage from the Casualty Depts of different hospitals in Oz from one christmas eve, and a little girls voice singing "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas".

One stark image from it was of a young man in a blood-stained tux on his knees, bawling his eyes out, alone.

seamus · 07-05-2010 10:18AM

shakencat wrote: »

some kids thing.
i went in like.. 4th class.
...

i think its gone now..

its to teach kids rules of the road..

I remember doing something like this in fourth class, but it was with Dublin Bus. Basically they came into the school, told us how to wait for the bus, not to cross in front of/behind the bus, etc. Then they put us in a double-decker and dropped us at a bus stop about 2 miles away, more talking about how to hail the bus, etc. The bus went off around the block and came back around and we "hailed" it and it took us back to school.

I have no idea why I still remember that. But it's about the only traffic education I ever got in school.

gino85 · 07-05-2010 10:23AM

seamus wrote: »

The problem is that they go for the shock and awe factor to the point where the "story" isn't all that believable. The ad where the guy gets pinned against the wall - well that's just bad luck. The odds of something like that occuring are staggering. The only good thing about that ad is the super-hot girl in it.

its not impossable for that to happan, i know a man who was pinned to a wall by a ****head joyrider, he ended up breaking both legs

KamiKazi · 07-05-2010 10:28AM

gino85 wrote: »

its not impossable for that to happan, i know a man who was pinned to a wall by a ****head joyrider, he ended up breaking both legs

Of course it's not impossible, just very unlikely to happen.

Teaching people that speed is the root of all evil is the wrong way to educate drivers.

Sinfonia · 07-05-2010 10:46AM

KamiKazi wrote: »

Teaching people that speed is the root of all evil is the wrong way to educate drivers.

Yeah, I've had two crashes, small fender benders really, but each time I was going about 10 mph, I just wasn't paying attention

Lemegeton · 07-05-2010 10:55AM

all of those ads are a waste of time and money. the pricks who drive too fast and drive like idiots just dont give a ****. you will never get through to these people.

Duckjob · 07-05-2010 11:34AM

SV wrote:

they don't work.
All of the 'situations' they show are down to stupid fúcking driving and not speeding

+1

Indeed, standard driver instinct if a dog crosses your path is of course to frantically tear the wheel to one side

Kamikazi wrote:

Teaching people that speed is the root of all evil is the wrong way to educate drivers.

Couldn't agree more, but it gives people a high horse to get on and makes an good cash-cow for the government whilst not tackling the problem directly.

WindSock · 07-05-2010 12:02PM

shakencat wrote: »

some kids thing.
i went in like.. 4th class.

with bikes..
go karts..
and then just people..

i think its gone now..

its to teach kids rules of the road..

Yup, that was beside Clontarf Dart station. Traffic School I think it was called. You got to learn all sorts of things about road safety. It's a real shame it's not there anymore

mojesius · 07-05-2010 12:04PM

The seatbelt ad always sticks with me, remember the one with Samantha Mumba 'body to body', "Today, Dave is going to hit his girlfriend so hard in the head..." or something like that. It was more the sound of heads bashing that got me. It made me become very stringent about everyone putting their seatbelt on when I get into a car.

I think the ones with relatives are probably the most effective. But there are still too many idiots on our roads, so you wonder if they actually work.

Cookie_Monster · 07-05-2010 12:15PM

mojesius wrote: »

The seatbelt ad always sticks with me, remember the one with Samantha Mumba 'body to body', "Today, Dave is going to hit his girlfriend so hard in the head..." or something like that. It was more the sound of heads bashing that got me. It made me become very stringent about everyone putting their seatbelt on when I get into a car.

I think the ones with relatives are probably the most effective. But there are still too many idiots on our roads, so you wonder if they actually work.

thats back on at the moment.

while it is one of the better ads I still think the situation is unlikely. car coming towards them is well on the wrong side of the road and aiming for them. Car from behind arrives a couple of seconds later, must have seen car stopped & signalling to turn and then the crash but is still flying along...

bonerm · 07-05-2010 12:19PM

Jeebus wrote: »

I seriously wish they would stop showing it. Its horrific.

You know the one where the young couple are sitting on a wall. Yesterday I was watching television with one of my female friends, this ad came on and she burst out crying, having lost friends of hers in a car accident before.

It can seriously drain the happiness from a room, and ever notice how whenever you're talking with friends, and you're having a conversation, and it wanes for a little while, then, inevitably this ad comes on and drains all the colour from the room, and the night dies.

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I know what you mean! It's like when Paramount Comedy put on those melodramatic adverts for CONCERN and other "save the dying in the 3rd world" campaigns. It really ruins the mood and then we spend the next 30mins watching "Two and a Half Men" without a single laugh from anyone assembled in the room.

Capt'n Midnight · 07-05-2010 12:26PM

gino85 wrote: »

its not impossable for that to happan, i know a man who was pinned to a wall by a ****head joyrider, he ended up breaking both legs

I know someone who was caught against his parked car when a drunk driver hit it, he didn't have a chance:(

Toto Wolfcastle · 07-05-2010 12:35PM

I can't watch any of those ads. Does anyone remember the one years ago where there was a little girl walking to school and a red car came speeding around the corner? What A Wonderful World was the song that was playing in the background. Every time I hear that song I vividly remember the images from that ad.

simu · 07-05-2010 12:40PM

I hate those ads... when they come on during the news and my three-yr-old son is in the room, it's a frantic rush for the remote. Puts me off watching TV altogether tbh. :mad:

BlaasForRafa · 07-05-2010 01:26PM

shakencat wrote: »

yes the ones you have all mentioned are horrible

but does no one remember the one with the car flipping into a random back garden and killing the little girl in an instant?

my god its hard hitting.

the screams were harrowing.

I think that ad is completely ridiculous and over the top. How many times has a car actually barrel-rolled into someones back garden? It just takes away any kind of credibility from the ad by being so OTT.

faceman · 07-05-2010 01:38PM

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

I think that ad is completely ridiculous and over the top. How many times has a car actually barrel-rolled into someones back garden? It just takes away any kind of credibility from the ad by being so OTT.

I dont think thats the point. When involved in an impact at speed, what happens to the car/van is unpredictable at that point.

Remember that crash on the M50 not so long ago where the car catapulted into the traffic lanes on the other side of the meridian.

Lux23 · 07-05-2010 01:42PM

Unrelated but I have to switch off those starving babies in Africa adverts, put me off my dinner. The one with whiney female singer makes me feel physically ill, I prefer the one with the little girl playing with her dolly its way more effective.

Duckjob · 07-05-2010 02:36PM

BlaasForRafa wrote:

I think that ad is completely ridiculous and over the top. How many times has a car actually barrel-rolled into someones back garden? It just takes away any kind of credibility from the ad by being so OTT.

faceman wrote: »

I dont think thats the point. When involved in an impact at speed, what happens to the car/van is unpredictable at that point.

Actually, I think it's very much the point.

If you're genuinely aiming to change drivers behaviour, then make ads that depict danger in that very behaviour - using scenarios that drivers can relate to their own everyday driving environments.

Perfect example:
That ad from a few years back where some young goon slides his car (with girlfriend) off the road, across a field and wraps it around a tree, accompanied by the obligatory "Speed kills" message. I didn't relate to it in the slightest and you know why? It's because I don't go airborne at 80mph over blind hump-backed bridges.

I'd like to challenge the ad makers to make such a credible ad, depicting carnage resulting from somebody tipping along at a steady 130/140/150kph on the motorway. Havent seen such an ad yet, strangely enough.

Until those ads manage to depict realistic danger in normal everyday driving situations they'll do little more than offer short-term shock value.

take everything · 07-05-2010 02:49PM

Dudess wrote: »

and the one with the bunch of people in a car who get smashed all over the place because of no seatbelt (it uses that Body To Body Bowie-sampling tune) - they're just gratuitous gore and have me doing a beeline for the remote.

The ones with a bereaved relative merely talking about their loved one who was killed are, to me, more "effective". Dunno why...

I tend to agree.
That "body to body" one is too stylised or something, and the song just makes it look like a pop video.

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KamiKazi · 07-05-2010 04:30PM

Scien wrote: »

Still working for the DSPCA you are?

Ask any driving instructor, they'll tell you to brake hard but not to swerve.

Human life > canine life. (yes even humans from Cark)

barbiegirl · 07-05-2010 04:43PM

Scien is right, when I was being taught to drive it was hit the dog, you are liable if by swerving you cause damage to any other vehicle or person and I am a dog owner.
As to the ads to me they work. I make sure everyone has a seatbelt on, including the dog as a result of that ad, I don't drink and drive and whilst yes I do speed on the motorway, I tend to be careful on country roads, being in the right, on the right side of the road means fcuk all when you come round a corner doing 80kmph to meet a tractor, lorry, or anything else.
Speed does kill, in that the faster you are going the less time you have to react to the situation you find yourself in, be that hitting a large pothole or swerving to avoid a dog.
I hate the ads, the are very graphic and emotive but they work for me.
As to boy racers, some of which (note I am allowing for those who just like the cars) have no concept of cause and affect, and believe that it will never happen to them, it's so unlikely, **** happens. You can't live your life in fear BUT you can understand the rules and apply common sense.

Kevski · 07-05-2010 04:44PM

It BeeMee wrote: »

He was stuck into a young wan against a wall when he was hit by a car.

Now that's definitely a lie.

tahsie · 29-08-2010 10:00PM

i just saw the comment you wrote about the road safety add with that what a wonderful world song. that was me in the add, im looking to find it and wos wondering if you can remember anything about it. would u remember what it was for spacifically?

That one road safety ad.

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