Probably the most powerful anti speeding ad you'll ever see

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:00 pm

No speech, no text, just a video and a soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6pO9ozHj3Y

I have to say, if they don't already show this at speed awareness courses they should do!

bkf_uk · Post by **bkf_uk** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:18 pm

all that i can say.

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:59 pm

Look at the comments, one person said they gave up street racing after watching that.

Quagmire_GT · Post by **Quagmire_GT** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:00 pm

really "drives" it home doesnt it

bkf_uk · Post by **bkf_uk** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:43 pm

As a motorbike rider myself, but also just as relevant in a car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9vBPFauZ4

Raffadakis · Post by **Raffadakis** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:00 pm

truely touching video....

Van · Post by **Van** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:46 am

Serious proof drivers shouldn't get get out of the way of cats.

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:46 am

Van wrote:Serious proof drivers shouldn't get get out of the way of cats.

Or dogs even, thing is its more of a reflex to avoid something in the road

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:24 pm

volvo-bigbrother wrote:Look at the comments, one person said they gave up street racing after watching that.

The fact that they had to "give up street racing" shows that he isn't worthy of a licence in the first place.

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:49 pm

Yossarian wrote:
volvo-bigbrother wrote:Look at the comments, one person said they gave up street racing after watching that.
The fact that they had to "give up street racing" shows that he isn't worthy of a licence in the first place.

If they couldn't get their hands on a licence we wouldn 't need ads like this

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:23 pm

Or dogs even, thing is its more of a reflex to avoid something in the road

I must have trained myself not to use this reflex, ive ploughed through/over loads of birds and a couple of animals rather than swerve and risk leaving the road or losing control.
Video does make you think but smoking is by far and away a bigger killer than road incidents yet because its a slow process and not as dramatic its taken far less seriously and is actually socially acceptable, go figure!

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:06 pm

And it makes the government a lot of money.

Raffadakis · Post by **Raffadakis** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:58 pm

I must have trained myself not to use this reflex, ive ploughed through/over loads of birds and a couple of animals rather...

lol "a couple of animals"

do you live next to a zoo or in the woods?

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:38 pm

No, i think i'm just unlucky!
A deer jumped out in front of me, i slowed down as much as i could but couldn't help hitting it as i was on a single track road with drystone walls on either side. Another time a lamb literally sprung out of a field right in front of me, bounced off the front bumper and vanished before i even had a chance to hit the brakes. I was only doing 20 on a single track road so i stopped to look for it but i couldn't find any trace of it, i think it was a ghost lamb! Also hit a rabbit in my MR2, there wasn't a lot left of that, my front splitter ate it!
My works van seems to be a magnet for kamikaze bird strikes, i'm forever picking feathers out of the front grille!

Raffadakis · Post by **Raffadakis** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:38 pm

Oh dear!

really strange....

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:18 pm

Lol. I must remember not to check out hot girls at the roadside.

Clearly whats far more dangerous than speeding is looking at hot girls. It wrote off like 3 people!

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:56 pm

Look up limit point analysis.
Simply drive so you can stop within the distance you can see to be clear - numerical speed is irrelevant. If the distance I can see round a sharp blind bend on narrow roads with a 60mph limit is <10mph, that is what I will do.
Don't start an overtake on the approach to a junction, and never ever swerve for an animal.

Reminded me of those "driving school" type programmes where they show teenagers who have just passed their tests some staged accidents - "this is what will happen if you deliberately drive into the back of a lorry. At 40mph. Without braking" or "This is what happens if you have a gas ram set up in your car pointing at the ground and then trigger it halfway through an overtake".

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:54 pm

chris1roll wrote:never ever swerve for an animal

Reminds me of you Badger Badger Badger Badger thread a while back

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:12 pm

volvo-bigbrother wrote:
chris1roll wrote:never ever swerve for an animal
Reminds me of you Badger Badger Badger Badger thread a while back

Exactly, that resulted in just a new grille being required, rather than a new car.

Oh, and this is what happens when (in moderate traffic, below the speed limit) the car next to you doesn't check their mirrors properly and spins you into a lorry.

Waiting to hear if that will require a new car....

Still, I am still here!

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:35 pm

opps. Is that a Skoda?

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