That one road safety ad.

BlaasForRafa

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

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

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

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

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.

Heisenberg.

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KamiKazi

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

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

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

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?

JonB

I think the ads really do work. They scare you but it brings a bit of reality home. You think something like this wont happen to you. "ah sure i'll be grand" where as a matter of fact that isn't the case. Not also that it makes you realise that I'm not the only one I'm endangering by my driving.
I do see the other side of it though it can spook you. I don't think I will ever forget the scene in one of the ads with an ambulance and 3 bodies in white sheets covering them. Brings a shiver to my spine.

R0ot

If the ads stop one person from drink driving/speeding then they are worth showing every ever hour on the hour. I come from Inishowen probably the site of some of the worst car crashes on our roads in the last decade and these ads I welcome.

Speeding and drink driving kills people and I'd hope our little PC island won't resort to bowing to people who say "oh those ads are depressing/horrible/disgraceful" and want the ad's pulled.

If you think ours are gruesome then you should see Australia's version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cP5IMefEm8

TrevorDUB

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DOC09UNAM

stovelid wrote: »

Dunno if anybody has mentioned it already but there is one for speeding where a guy keeps imaging he sees the body of a toddler that he jss knocked down?

Very distributing.

I hate all the other corny ones: the car crash and the lovers on the wall etc.

Very Distributing?

Surely you mean Disturbing?

DublinWriter

All these faux-snuff movies do is desensitise the viewer.

If the RSA want to cut road-deaths by 40% per annum then they should prohibit any male under 25 from owning a car.

The Big Red Button

This post had a bigger impact on my driving habits than any road safety ads I've ever seen, it really did.

I was driving today for the first time since I had read it, and it really stuck in my head and made me think about what I was doing, stopped me from becoming complacent even though I was driving a section of road that I knew like the back of my hand and (I will admit) would usually be well over the speed limit on. No road safety ad I've ever seen has ever actually entered my head once I get behind the wheel, I guess it's because they're all so dramatised that you sort of think "That's a bit over the top, it's not going to happen to me." But when you read such an evocative post written by a real person who has seen the aftermath close-up ... well, I'm not sure why it had such a big effect on me, but I'm certainly not the only one.

DublinWriter

chatterpillar wrote: »

This post had a bigger impact on my driving habits than any road safety ads I've ever seen, it really did.

In this country we're great with the emotion, the gnashing of teeth, the keening and the wailing and in two months' time is all so much eaten bread, soon forgotten.

One of the best things I ever did was a Defensive Driving course. I really don't care how many muppets lose their lives as a consequence of their reckless actions, all I care about is protecting me and mine.

Sound Bite

chatterpillar wrote: »

This post had a bigger impact on my driving habits than any road safety ads I've ever seen, it really did.QUOTE]

+ 1. It's one hell of a powerful post.

jaffa20

TrevorDUB wrote: »

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tahsie wrote: »

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?

What?

Deus Ex Machina

I completely disagree, I think that ads like this have absolutely no effect, whether it is to "bring a room down" or prevent people from breaking the rules of the road. If anything they are mildly amusing.

Dudess

It doesn't seem like the OTT ones are getting the message through.

*adele*

bonerm wrote: »

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.

I doubt that had anything to do with the ad,:pac: wheh wheh wheh

DOC09UNAM

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

I completely disagree, I think that ads like this have absolutely no effect, whether it is to "bring a room down" or prevent people from breaking the rules of the road. If anything they are mildly amusing.

I completely agree, nothing funnier than watching people get killed in slow motion car accidents, Utterly hilaaaaaaaaaaaarious.

MightyMighty737

R0ot wrote: »

video

as a nineteen year old, i think that's ****ing terrifying.

DublinWriter

DublinWriter wrote: »

All these faux-snuff movies do is desensitise the viewer.

If the RSA want to cut road-deaths by 40% per annum then they should prohibit any male under 25 from owning a car.

They could could cut it by 60% if they prohibit anyone over 25 from owning a car.

triseke

R0ot wrote: »

If the ads stop one person from drink driving/speeding then they are worth showing every ever hour on the hour. I come from Inishowen probably the site of some of the worst car crashes on our roads in the last decade and these ads I welcome.

Speeding and drink driving kills people and I'd hope our little PC island won't resort to bowing to people who say "oh those ads are depressing/horrible/disgraceful" and want the ad's pulled.

If you think ours are gruesome then you should see Australia's version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cP5IMefEm8

jesus christ that is horrific.

Cantona's Collars

The cops in the States target street racers/boy racers etc. who flout the law by constantly stopping them and fining them for infringements-everything from noisy exhausts to tinted windows that cause drivers' viewing to be impaired.Hitting them in the pocket is the only solution and no amount of ads no matter how hard hitting or well meaning will work.
The emphasis on regulating the roads here seems to be revenue driven-put a speed trap in an area to catch the most 'victims' and collect as much fines as possible.The people doing 5mph over the limit in one of these zones gets done but the 18 year old who tears through at 90mph at 3 am won't.Every town and village has the same story to tell.The locals know what cars are doing it and even who drives them but the Gardai can't catch them.
In my town all I have to do is drive to one area and there's 'kids' in cars from all over the county-easy enough to give the cars the once over and any defect,lapsed tax just tow the car.A long walk home would give them time to think unless they got run over by one of their mates having the craic on the road.

Has anyone seen that advert asking people to never text and drive? I believe it's Welsh, but I could be wrong- it's far more effective than the ads we show here - ours just show the crash and not the immediate conditions right after. This one does and is one of the reasons I get so edgy when I see someone take their phone out to text whilst driving

Here's the ad - it's extremely distressing and NSFW .. so you've been warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9krX9fHAfHM

Dacelonid

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.

That is a brilliant ad

Brendog

awww poor OP..
not to worry that chick who gets her legs crushed is appearing in "Resident Evil:Afterlife"..










so not only is she OK but she'll probably be killing her zombie boyfriend :D

Dacelonid

Dacelonid wrote: »

That is a brilliant ad

It is gorgeous, alright - I'm not going to deny that, but I would have to question just how effective it is. I can definately see it being effective for parents, but not for everybody else.

Cantona's Collars

Deleted User wrote: »

Has anyone seen that advert asking people to never text and drive? I believe it's Welsh, but I could be wrong- it's far more effective than the ads we show here - ours just show the crash and not the immediate conditions right after. This one does and is one of the reasons I get so edgy when I see someone take their phone out to text whilst driving

Here's the ad - it's extremely distressing and NSFW .. so you've been warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9krX9fHAfHM

Good post-that ad is an eyeopener.What I find gas are the drivers (especially women) who put the phone on speaker and hold it at chin level in the belief that it's safer and legal cos the phone is not up to their ear-MORONS.
Every phone these days has bluetooth and a hands free earpiece is 15 euro-a small price to pay to stay legal and most importantly safe.A show on UK tv showed how much you miss when driving and using a phone-it's astonishing,gave yer man a right fright when they played back the video.He had 2 phones in the car and sometimes used both at the same time-crazy.

thesimpsons

they can show every hard hitting advert in the world but its not getting the message through to young drivers - males mostly. Another crash last nite in Mayo - luckily nobody badly injured but 7 young teens in car at 4.30 in the morning. Driving on an L plate just has to be monitored, gardai need to get act together and confiscate cars of every single driver they see on the roads not obeying this rule, parents need to get their act together and not give their kids cars willy nilly. Its still happening all over the country every day of the year, kid gets to 17, gets L plate, gets car and off they go. Going to work this morning and passed 3 young drivers on L plates driving to school. No qualified driver accompanying them, 2 of the cars took wrong lane on roundabout, another one took off like a rocket on a 50km road. Think you shouldn't be able to get L plate without certain amount of hours of driving school instruction. Teens don't watch ads, they fast forward through them, flick channels, get up and go out but they sure as hell don't watch ads.

zerks

zerks wrote: »

The cops in the States target street racers/boy racers etc. who flout the law by constantly stopping them and fining them for infringements-everything from noisy exhausts to tinted windows that cause drivers' viewing to be impaired.Hitting them in the pocket is the only solution and no amount of ads no matter how hard hitting or well meaning will work.
The emphasis on regulating the roads here seems to be revenue driven-put a speed trap in an area to catch the most 'victims' and collect as much fines as possible.The people doing 5mph over the limit in one of these zones gets done but the 18 year old who tears through at 90mph at 3 am won't.Every town and village has the same story to tell.The locals know what cars are doing it and even who drives them but the Gardai can't catch them.
In my town all I have to do is drive to one area and there's 'kids' in cars from all over the county-easy enough to give the cars the once over and any defect,lapsed tax just tow the car.A long walk home would give them time to think unless they got run over by one of their mates having the craic on the road.

This kind of treatment during the day would be very unfair but at night, i'd be fairly on for it.

I pulled into Tom Hogan's in Galway one night round 3am and there were six civics lined up in the fourcourt. I was driving an old bmw that looked a bit ricer so they followed me down the dual carriageway swerving in behind me and undertaking me thinkin it was great craic.. Scared the shlt out of me it was so dangerous yet the guards do nothing. Instead they have a speed gun on the same stretch of road at half eight catching people on their way to work.

rhythm90

Dudess wrote: »

I wouldn't say I like them more - they're exceptionally harrowing also - but I think they convey the message better, rather than being arguably OTT "violence porn".

.... *Does a google search*

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

This kind of treatment during the day would be very unfair but at night, i'd be fairly on for it.

I pulled into Tom Hogan's in Galway one night round 3am and there were six civics lined up in the fourcourt. I was driving an old bmw that looked a bit ricer so they followed me down the dual carriageway swerving in behind me and undertaking me thinkin it was great craic.. Scared the shlt out of me it was so dangerous yet the guards do nothing. Instead they have a speed gun on the same stretch of road at half eight catching people on their way to work.

Set up a camera on the back of your car, or else have a passenger to record it too. Submit the videos to the media (Galway Advertiser, Galway Independent, Galway Bay FM) as well as posting it on Youtube.

The only way the guards will do anything about it is if you undermine them and they have to do something to save face.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Set up a camera on the back of your car, or else have a passenger to record it too. Submit the videos to the media (Galway Advertiser, Galway Independent, Galway Bay FM) as well as posting it on Youtube.

The only way the guards will do anything about it is if you undermine them and they have to do something to save face.

Good point.. I could just post it up on boards and all the papers will run it the next day.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Good point.. I could just post it up on boards and all the papers will run it the next day.

It worked when those kids were banging on people's door late at night last year.

Chorcai

Deleted User wrote: »

It worked when those kids were banging on people's door late at night last year.

huh ? have ya link ?

Chorcai

Chorcai wrote: »

huh ? have ya link ?

Sure, give me a few mins though. Basically these students were thumping on people's doors at around 3AM and causing huge disturbances. Someone recorded it happening and put it on the internet and it caused uproar pretty much. The guards then identified who the students were and they were all fined (if I remember correctly)

Yeah it was up Bohermore in Galway.. Such ****.

Here we go, the news article and then two weeks later, when the students had been caught

Dravokivich

DublinWriter wrote: »

All these faux-snuff movies do is desensitise the viewer.

If the RSA want to cut road-deaths by 40% per annum then they should prohibit any male under 25 from owning a car.

Deleted User wrote: »

They could could cut it by 60% if they prohibit anyone over 25 from owning a car.

...how about we just ban cars?

Would help with our CO2 emissions by quite alot...

Cantona's Collars

Just how responsible are the parents of these kids that are tearing around the roads at all hours,when I was that age I'd get me arse kicked for carrying on that way.Draconian sanctions are the only way-The local secondary school here is causing a nightmare for residents because so many students have cars parked in the area-how many have full licences?
The point about teens not watching these ads is true and the few that do see it would just say "sure it won't happen to me I'm a better driver than that".
Any teenager out after a certain time of night in a car without good reason should be automatically stopped and questioned and as I said earlier the slightest infraction dealt with harshly.Unfortunately that isn't a good revenue stream compared to hiding on the edge of 50kph zones in the morning and evening catching easy targets.

lucylu

The amount of doughnuts that appear on secondary roads as a result of drifting or diffin on roads across the country is cronic. It is obvious that the message is not getting through to young people.
Do teen's parents not know what their children are doing and who they are with at 4 ,5, 6 am in the morning.

Banji

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

Everything turned out better than expected

Wibbs

With some of the eejits on the road(one last night on the wrong side of the road), I'm thinking fuggit, I'll weld in a bloody roll cage out to the suspension points and run 5 point harnesses to it and be done with it. That way if some muppet hits me it'll be his or her family carrying a pine box on the cover of the herald. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUjyYnQJOpc

Dravokivich

Wibbs wrote: »

With some of the eejits on the road(one last night on the wrong side of the road), I'm thinking fuggit, I'll weld in a bloody roll cage out to the suspension points and run 5 point harnesses to it and be done with it. That way if some muppet hits me it'll be his or her family carrying a pine box on the cover of the herald. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUjyYnQJOpc

I'm happy enough on the bus as long as It doesn't intersect a Luas.. all's fine...

Crann na Beatha

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Cantona's Collars

How come the ordinary decent folk can hear these guys and know where they are having their 'fun' but the Gardai can't? The hinterland around my town turns into Daytona nearly every night but nobody is hauled up before the courts.A good friend of mine counted over 30 cars on one stretch of road near his home getting set up for fun and games-he got into his car and drove up and down the road at 30 mph until they all got bored and left.There are speed traps on the same stretch of road in the mornings but at night it's a boy racers playground.:mad:
These lads won't see any ads on tv cos they're never home-either cruising around town all day or tearing up the roads at night.