OT: British 'Driving While Texting' PSA (Warning: may be disturbing)

[sprocketboy]

The cafeteria where I work has a big-screen TV where they usually show CNN Headline News. Today, the whole cafeteria went silent at lunch while CNN showed this British Public Service Announcement about DWT (Driving While Texting) as part of Rich Sanchez' show.

I have to warn you ... it's pretty graphic. They are obviously trying for the 'Scared Straight' effect. Think it will work?

Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFArUOaupp0)

[Mikiemo83]

I watched this, it is pretty graphic but reality

I had friends do a similar accident when the kid in the back seat reached over to change the radio station back in the early 80's


Texting is as bad as DD

[Bases Loaded]

Yea I saw that on CNN too, it really hit me hard because it brought me flashbacks of my own incident. I can't watch shit like that.

Will it work? I don't think so. But something needs to be done. Car and Driver did a little test that found texting while driving can be WORSE than drunk driving. You might as well be reading a book and taking notes, it's ridiculous.

[sprocketboy]

I have a scar on my left elbow from a distracted-driving teenage accident (I was a passenger). It took a quarter-sized divot out of my skin.

Looking back, I was probably lucky to walk away from it. But my friend was driving his mother's mid-seventies Chevy, and that thing must have been a tank.

Cars nowadays? They're supposed to be safer, but I'm not so sure.

[jaychamp]

Problem is the majority that do it are kids and they're not going to give a shit even after seeing a video like that. I know I wouldn't have.

My senior year of highschool 16 years ago, one of my friends was driving drunk, hit a tree, and his 3 passengers died, all 16 years old, all very popular in my school. Devastating to our modest sized town, and a lot of emotion that week. A few weeks later everyone was back to partying and driving when they probably shouldn't have been, including myself I'm not proud to say. Not to say that it didn't scare some sense into some of the smarter few, but you'd think it would have had a bigger impact. Kids think they're invincible, that's just how it is.

And even if they make strict laws against it it's going to be so hard to enforce. It's a shitty thing

[nomars_girl]

Unfortunately, stuff like this has no effect on kids. I remember all the films of gory accidents they used to show us in Driver's Ed. We used to bring popcorn. No one took it seriously. You just never think it will be you.

[Mikiemo83]

Unfortunately, stuff like this has no effect on kids. I remember all the films of gory accidents they used to show us in Driver's Ed. We used to bring popcorn. No one took it seriously. You just never think it will be you.

on my drivers ed meet the ambulance day, the fireman knew me and was telling me how they took hits of Oxygen to cure hangovers and other little treats like that

we were young and indestructible...took me to 35 before I realized I could feel pain and it was a warning to stop, there is no way kids pay much attention to these - it freaks out parents more so let's hope they crack down on the kids