P.S.A Wear your seatbelt!

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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:17 am

It's seldom that I see a commercial that really touches me, but this one did!
I drove a tow truck for 15 years, working with the local police and the Highway Patrol, and I've seen everything that can happen to the human body in a crash.

Please wear your setbelt

P.S. Not gross, and SFW!

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:41 am

That was really sweet!
Thanks for posting this.

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:41 am

wow - that would touch even the most hardened

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 7103 Location: Yes

Well done! Beats "this is your brain on drugs" any day...

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:16 pm

That's quite an impressive advert way superior to the average public information film which is a rarity. The only other one I've seen that doesn't make me reach for the mute button is the Dennis Leary "I'm an arsehole" drink driving ad.

The wearing of seat-belts has been compulsory in the UK for twenty years or so and yet I still see cars with children standing in the footwell or between the seats.

If people want to kill themselves by being idiots I don't have a problem but...

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:50 pm

Sweet!

Juan's stalker Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 1423

That was very touching crashhoot. Thanks for sharing.

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:11 pm

When I was a teenager in California in the 1960's, cars did not come with seat belts.

Our driver training instructor recommended installing them,
and one of the boys pointed out that if he put seat belts in his car,
his insurance company would raise his rates because
the presence of seat belts meant that he raced.

Smile

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:25 pm

Why would you even tell the insurance company what you did to a vehicle. Street racers, I am sure, do not tell all the mods they do to the insurance co! Did they inspect cars back in the day to see what was in them? If you could install 'em, you can remove 'em. I suppose, bygones.

My particular profession has mandated that seatbelts will not only be worn while working (if in a vehicle) but also in off work situation. Being involved in an accident (or getting a failure to wear citation), even on your own time, without seatbelt, can result in disciplinary action.

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:12 am

@Crashhoot-I did my time behind the wheel of a tow truck also,but thankfully never did police towing.Some of my co-workers did though,and their stories were not pretty.

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:06 am

doc holliday wrote:

...and their stories were not pretty.

You got that right.

Long before seat belt laws were enacted in my state, I insisted that every passenger in my car wear a seat belt. If anyone objected, I would start telling them about some of the accidents that I had seen...body parts strewn across the highway, firemen using a firehose to wash the blood out of the inside of a van, a baby's body ejected through a windshield...

No one rides in my car without a seat belt!

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:39 pm

Before seatbelts became mandatory I had a friend who wouldn't even start the engine unless everyone was safely buckled in. I started the same practice. We both simply said that was the rule for riding in our cars, and we never had to argue with anyone about it.

Putting on the seat belt for me is as much a part of getting into a car as sitting in the seat - it's almost one continuous movement.

That PSA was beautiful. Kudos to whoever decided that such a lovely picture just might have more impact than blood and guts.

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