It IS hard to watch for most people. They don't expect that it would be so realistic since we are not used to such things here in the US. No, our PSAs are just talk... they don't show the results. Which would someone remember more, a video of some person saying it's dangerous to text while driving? Or a video that shows what can happen when you text while driving? I know which one I would remember.
True.
Holy moly that was hard to watch.
Just yesterday I had some guy behind me get angry with me b/c he thought I wasn't paying attention...I was trying to be nice to another driver who was going to be waiting awhile if I didn't let her go. We were driving through an area with street parking on both sides, with lots of pedestrian traffic always but more that day b/c of a farmer's market...he had NO idea why I was stopped...thankfully all he did was yell, not barrel through the intersection.
When I was in middle school, some kids at the HS got into an accident. The HS was an open campus, and it was typical for kids to go to a certain hill to drink then drive down and "catch air".
One day...it didn't work out so well for them. They were in the air and a garbage truck came out of a cross street. They could do NOTHING but watch what was about to happen. They hit the truck, went under the truck.
One kid survived.
As a sophomore in HS, a closed-campus by that time, I met the survivor. He wished he hadn't survived. He watched what happened to his friends as they went under the truck.
The part in the video where the car gets rolled on top of by the green truck as they are both basically driving normally...I think that got to me most of all. Partially b/c of the accident I just talked about, but also because it's such a *pure* accident. A truck taking a turn just a bit too fast, losing control, and you just happen to be next to it...how do you prepare for THAT?
