Aussies always do make the best road safety adverts.

[Cycling Dan]

If there has even been a road safety advert I remember it is an Aussie one. British ones seemed to have stopped or got soft. The general public don't seem to like the truth. Point shown when they made that rail track one with the family on a bike ride.

Watch your speed. A huge point in this advert as well. OTHERS make mistakes too.

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[AndyRM]

Australia has taken New Zealand?

The apocalypse is upon us!

 

[Cycling Dan]

Australia has taken New Zealand?

The apocalypse is upon us!

I thought this was an Aussie one? Well either way both their adverts r on par

 

[AndyRM]

It's alright. You've a short memory if you don't remember the effective UK ones that have been on recently.

In fact, our efforts are so good that the Colonies buy them off us:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM

 

[Spinney]

This wasn't impactful?

 

[Scoosh]

[gulp]



Yes, it still is .....

 

[Spinney]

The bit that got me in that ad wasn't the moronic texting girls, it was the little girl in the back of the car wanting her mummy and daddy to wake up...

 

[Melonfish]

that aus/newi ad is brutal. seriously brutal.
i hate adds like this for the sheer horror it makes me think of, yet i'm thankfull that they're getting the bloody point across.

 

[Cycling Dan]

This wasn't impactful?

That's an old one and offcom had a field day with it. Few thousands complaints

 

[Spinney]

That's an old one and offcom had a field day with it. Few thousands complaints

What were the complaints about? Too disturbing?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Why isn't the 4 min+ anti texting one shown on national television? Something needs to shock these inconsiderate "my life and time is worth more than your life", bastards into stopping their totally dangerous anti social activities! I could write paragraphs about my experiences as a cyclist pedestrian and motorist where i've had to dodge their vehicles being driven without due care and attention,while the morons have their eyes glued to a small screen totally oblivious to what they are doing to other road users! If you gesticulate to them that they are committing an offence they take it as an insult and react either in an aggressive manner or use a mocking jesture. How i wish one would come unstuck before my eyes affecting only themselves,but they usually take someone with them, as we saw in the film!

 

[Cycling Dan]

I

The bit that got me in that ad wasn't the moronic texting girls, it was the little girl in the back of the car wanting her mummy and daddy to wake up...

Best one is the street boy racer in the country. Flips the cars the car and crushes a couple kissing in a wall. Crushing the boyfriend and the girls legs as she's sitting on the wall

 

[Spinney]

I

Best one is the street boy racer in the country. Flips the cars the car and crushes a couple kissing in a wall. Crushing the boyfriend and the girls legs as she's sitting on the wall

I'm not sure that 'best' is the adjective I would choose....

 

[Arch]

I wonder about the usefulness of these films sometimes. People who text while driving, for example, just assume it won't happen to them. Whatever you show them, they think they are the one person who can do it and not have a problem.

I guess a proportion of people take note, but I fear there are a lot who just won't change until/unless it happens to them. Unfortunately, when it does, it won't necessarily kill them, or them alone.

Social pressure, as with drink driving, will work, for some, eventually, but as there are still people drinking and driving out there, even that doesn't always work.

 

[Cycling Dan]

What were the complaints about? Too disturbing?

All sorts. People complain about anything. I think they should show after when fire crews have to scrape them off the train. Much more powerful