Australian Transport Accident Commission celebrates 20 years of disturbing PSAs

[Blue_Tires]

Years ago when we were in drivers ed watching either Blood on the Highway or Red Asphalt -- the two gore-filled negative education films from the early 1970s that tried to scare us stright -- the cheerleader seated in front of us cold passed out. Just flopped right on the floor. It had to have been the scene where the camera arrives on the scene of a motorcycle wreck and, well, let's just say the poor rider needed an new knee. But as blood and guts infused as those films were, they can't even hold an emergency room candle to the carnage taking place on Australian television.

This film is a "best of" from 20 years of Transport Accident Commission films. And man... Notice how we didn't pass out during drivers ed? We have an iron stomach. That said, this video gets to be a little much. There's just so much non-stop carnage... The video almost makes us care less about drinking and driving than it does the perils of watching blood-infused video clips. Almost.

Here's what our Aussie tipster Casey had to say about the video, "Celebrating' 20 years of TAC TV advertisements, this once-only three-minute clip was shown on all free-to-air TV networks once on December 10 2009. It's a collage of their work over the 20 years and the graphic scenes put to air. It's an excellent (and chilling) viewing." Agreed, you're going see high production values and even higher casualty rates. Watch the video - if you have the stomach for it

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/11/video-australian-transport-accident-commission-celebrates-20-ye/

[hobbit709]

1. No thanks, I've seen enough blood and guts for two lifetimes.

[kimi]

2. I've seen my share of gore

when I was working as a nurse, although I haven't worked in awhile. Thought this would be no big deal, blood and guts is blood and guts, that's all. Well, this PSA will be with me for a long time, I think. Truly unforgettable.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Wow. If it's rough even for a medical professional, I will take a pass.

[Blue_Tires]

4. monday kick

[Tobin S.]

5. I've already been scared straight

I remember watching those driver's ed class videos. One day a local cop came to the class and showed us some slides of accident scenes that he and his co-workers had worked. The one that's stuck in my mind after all that time is a drunk motorcycle rider hitting a drunk pick-up driver head on doing about 60. The motorcylist wasn't wearing a helmet (probably wouldn't have survived anyway), and they had a close up of his face and head which had split open because he took a 60 mph nosedive over the truck and onto the pavement. That one got to me a bit, but I wasn't really interested in riding motorcycles anyway.

No that didn't do it. After I got my license I drove drunk and stoned quite a bit up until I was 23. I decided to get my CDL and fly right. After I had been out on the road for a bit driving a truck it solidified my resolve to never drive impaired again. The fact that my livlihood depended on it was a big part of that, but what I was seeing out there from time to time really made swear off driving drunk and/or stupid. A man cut into pieces from getting thrown under a train when he tried to beat the train and was ejected from his car. The woman who hadn't been wearing a seat belt when she had an accident on the highway and was thrown through the windshild and onto the pavement at a high rate of speed. A fellow driver that I worked with getting killed by another driver because he was driving to fast for road conditions. A guy I worked with at my current employer who got killed in a motorcycle accident very similar to the one I saw in my driver's ed class so many years ago. Two men at a company I used to work for who were crushed by their own truck while they were attempting to make repairs. A couple of drivers burned to death in a truck crash involving hazmat.

Yeah, I'm evidence that people can get smarter.

[Blue_Tires]

6. my aunt was an E.R. nurse for awhile

as teens, whenever my cousins or I started floating the idea of wanting motorcycles and dirtbikes, she would start recalling some of her "greatest hits" in vivid detail