Watch this before you drink to much the Party

[Daddubo]

Sometimes some thing really important comes along in an E-Mail this is one of them.This video is very Powerful it really messed me up. Watch it then have your teenagers and other loved ones watch it, it might save their lives or someone else’s

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Frank

Great Aussie Ad Campaign. This needs to be passed around to everyone who has the keys to a vehicle. This is perhaps one of the most intense commercials that I've ever seen and damn well made.



I think that Australia should be complemented on having the guts to "tell it like it is" and get this campaign out to all of its licensed drivers and to air it on TV...it is very moving and very life like. It has a very strong impact.






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[sbw1]

Strong message. Fortunately, serious auto accidents in the US are down over the past decade. Better cars, technology, and changing demographics have combined to reduce auto related truama. Still, never hurts to tell the story.

 

[JediJD]

Hmmm...what do you think about the argument that vast majority of reduction in lives has had nothing whatsoever to do with alcohol education and has in fact been due to superior automobile crash capability and safety measures, making these campaigns effectively revenue generators rather than public service programs?

 

[highslice]

Well it is a very intense spot. I think I am going to have my 16 year old watch it, he just got his license last week. He hasn't even considered drinking, refuses to hang with anyone that drinks or smokes. But at some point he will, and that video is a strong message about what can or will happen.

 

[sbw1]

Hmmm...what do you think about the argument that vast majority of reduction in lives has had nothing whatsoever to do with alcohol education and has in fact been due to superior automobile crash capability and safety measures, making these campaigns effectively revenue generators rather than public service programs?

Alcohol education plays a role. When I was growing up people were more tolerent of having a drink (or drinks) and then driving. My children always have a designated driver or hire a limo if they going to party in the city. MADD has helped to change public opinion on this issue for the better. Don't under estimate the importance of changing demographics. Most of the accidents I see at work involve 18-20 something year old young people who run into trees or roll a car at 2:00 in the morning. There are fewer people in that age category than there were years ago. As that age cohert goes, so goes trauma. I used to tell my children that very little good comes of being on the road at 2:00 AM unless they were working. No question, cars are safer today as well.

 

[dpmulvey]

Wow. Very well done.

 

[rob83srv225]

That ad rocked me to my core, i have lost a friend from a drunk driver................... very well done. rob

 

[Summer Fun II]

http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37573 . :grin: . :grin:

 

[Moose]

Let's not get sidetracked that safer cars will stop this. If you are drinking and driving the only thing that may save your life or others with you, is a tank!

 

[Gofirstclass]

I don't mind saying that I'm sitting here in tears after watching that, and I sent it to all of our kids. They're 30-somethings and still feel pretty much bulletproof.

The tears come from the thought of losing a child, and also from many years as a cop and having the deliver death messages. Telling someone their child got killed in a car accident was my least favorite part of that job. I don't miss that a bit.

Thanks for posting that. Alcohol involved accidents are still way too high on the list of causes of death for young adults. Way too high.

 

[Go Aweigh2452]

Good reminder... When I was 18, we could actually drive around with an open beer on the dash... We have come a long way in alcohol education. Not over yet... But we are making progress.

thanks...

 

[Daddubo]

This hit home I have a sister in law that is an Alcoholic in one of her drunken rages she took off flying down the road she broad sided a van with a 17yro and his 15yro brother that was about 8 years ago and that 17yro kid is still bed ridden. We took her son away from her when he was 13 he lived with us till he was 16 he is 22 now he and his friends always have a designated driver.

 

[Sundance280]

Wow....this video or something similar should be required of all prospective teenage drivers everywhere. I believe that Washington state where I'm in has something like this now that they're showing to teens.

 

[Searaybio270]

I just watched that here at 5:45 am. I too cried. My wife's cousin lost his daughter when her and her boyfriend were hit by a drunk driver. Thanks for sharing this. I have a 16 year old step son he gets to watch it later today.
Merry Christmas - May your Christmas be safe!