Comments | shadowe_wraithe: Please, PLEASE Drive Safely! **Warning*** Graphic Video

shadowe_wraithe

Please, PLEASE Drive Safely! Warning* Graphic Video

Sep 06, 2010 20:25

I had a FB friend share this video, and I felt it needed to be passed along, as Driving Safety is CRITICAL to everyone, even those who do not drive. After driving tow truck, working as a dispatcher and dating law enforcement officers, I know the reality of driving either intoxicated, angry, distracted or many other reasons for lack of attention ( Read more... )

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pocketnaomi September 7 2010, 04:50:22 UTC

I won't watch the video because of PTSD trigger issues, but those same issues spring from a warning I've taken seriously about driving safely. Ten years ago, I came within minutes of dying in a head-on highway collision after I lost control of the car and jumped the medin strip into oncoming traffic, getting hit moments later by a pickup truck in its own lane. The driver and passenger in the pickup were, fortunately, hurt only relatively mildly; they were treated briefly at the hospital (I think one ended up with a broken foot) and released. I survived because of an excellent seat belt and airbag system, and because someone phoned the crash in fast and I happened by dumb luck to be within ten miles of one of the best trauma hospitals in the country. They helicoptered me there and got me into surgery within twenty minutes of initial impact. I have two feet of surgical scar down my belly to this day, and it will stay with me forever, a reminder to be as careful as I possibly can be when I'm operating a vehicle. I wasn't drunk, tired, or ( ... )

shadowe_wraithe September 7 2010, 06:24:20 UTC

(((((((((((NAOMI))))))))))))))

I am glad you didn't watch, as I understand some people won't be able to watch it. That is one reason I gave such stern warnings about how graphic it is. It even had me near tears and anxious while watching it...

I just wanted to remind people how dangerous even a moment of inattentiveness can be when driving.

If it helps just one person, then it was worth the posting.

pocketnaomi September 7 2010, 06:32:14 UTC

I think it's an excellent idea to post. I added my story in comments because I hoped that, too, might make some people think just a little more attentively sometime on the road when it matters.

cflute September 7 2010, 22:59:45 UTC

I watched... as much as I could. When horror and nausea started taking over, I killed shut down the video feed. If there's an X rating not for sex but violence, this video needs it.

The only context in which I can see legitimately subjecting people to any part of it without direct consent would be kids in a driver's ed class.

shadowe_wraithe September 8 2010, 04:27:26 UTC

I am sorry that it got you ill, it was not necessarily meant to do that. Many people are unable to watch the full video, even knowing that much of it is staged. Knowing that much of it is not staged is too much for them.

Yes it is brutal, and as I said in my posting before the video, it is very, very graphic. I can only hope that they would bring back these sort of videos/films to driver's ed classes. I know I was required to watch them when I took the class. Nowadays sadly, they do not have these sort of films/videos as required part of the curriculum. I think if they did have, there just might be less carnage on our roads today.

I do agree with the need of a rating for these sort of things, though I am not sure how one would go about adding one...

cflute September 8 2010, 20:39:43 UTC

I'm guessing that the scenes that were staged were the ones with the higher quality video, and the ones which were blurred or pixellated were compilations of on-the-scene videos. Still, even those that were staged, probably followed "scripts" that reflected actual incidents. At least, I hope nobody has that graphic an imagination!

FYI, the background song's lyrics are here for anyone who'd like to check them out without having to listen to the video to do it.

shadowe_wraithe September 9 2010, 04:26:37 UTC

Yes from the footage I saw, the lesser quality footage would have been from real accident scenes, or traffic cameras, the staged ones of course would have had the better quality. My guess from watching the vid is that the staged scenes _Were_ based on actually accidents...but I have not finished running/tracking the video back to it's creator(s) yet. (I am working on doing that, for my own piece of mind)

Thank you for the link to the lyrics, I have actually favourited the Official song video on YouTube so that I can enjoy the song, and hopefully let the images from the video, (Hopefully) mostly fade from my memory.

Even for me, a someone seasoned responder to real life accident scenes, still had a tough time watching the video.