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Topic : Compulsory viewing for all drivers |
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| Peter |
Watch both videos www.spareroom.co.nz/2009/08/19/convincing-kids-not-to-text-and-drive/ |
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| wahiba |
When you are a teenager your think you are immortal. While it is a good try I doubt that it will stop many using their phone and/or driving badly. An unfortunate fact of life. 50 years ago it was young motorcyclists who were the target. All that has happened is the rules have got tighter and tighter. As a consequence and increased affluence the bike accident statistics moved up a generation or two and youngsters have become able to acquire cars much more easily. Relatively car running costs are much less than they were 40 or 50 years ago. Now the same will happen with youngsters and cars. Tighter controls, increases in age of driving etc. etc. Where can a teenager get chance for a real risk these days - join the army. A couple of weeks back I watched 700 teenagers march off a parade ground. I doubt if I was the only one there wondering how many will not see the end of the teens. For the record there were 700 odd happy faces cheered on by a few thousand relatives. |
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| Peter |
I did not post this link on the forum as a comment on teenage driving or to pass any sort of judgment. Note the title I gave to the topic. The subject of the first video could have been adjusting the radio, smoking in the car or any number of things which could distract for a moment in time while driving. When you watch the video perhaps you will think "it could have been me". If watching the video prevents an accident then this post has done its job. Please watch the videos. |
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| grandad |
Yes Peter this sort of video should be compulsory viewing for all drivers! I find it disgusting that we as a nation allow about ten deaths each and every day on our roads, plus many more serious injuries and most of the time it isn’t even reported on the news. There would be outrage, if they died in a train or plane crash? And calls for something to be done about it. I believe it is time that a licence to drive should become a privilege, for the few who can prove they are up the challenge, and not as now a right for anybody who can pass the very basic test we now have. |
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| grandson |
No matter what you do people will always do dumb stuff which puts their lives and others at risk. Sure you can put lovely adverts on TV depicting drivers and passengers dieing in a horrofic accident but at the end of the day it comes down to the person and whether or not they are intelligent enough to know that taking your eyes off of the road for a second is a bad idea, it's dangerous enough when walking! So unless driving licenses are restricted to people with a certain IQ (even Einstein's do dumb stuff) idiots on the road are here to stay! Bring on computer driven cars! |
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| alan |
Correct Peter and Grandad, it applies to ALL drivers not just teenagers! The majority of those I see every day on the road using phones certainly ain't teenagers! |
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| wahiba |
Watched the Video It won't happen to me. Yawn. Video forgotten. |
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| Peter |
...so wahiba you didn't watch it the first time you posted but left a comment.. mmmmm  |
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| alan |
quote...so wahiba you didn't watch it the first time you posted but left a comment.. mmmmm Probably not Peter, why let anything get in the way of a good pontificate  |
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| Peter |
Made in Gwent with £10,000: the road safety video taking YouTube by storm www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/03/gwent-road-safety-film ... and the film in question www.spareroom.co.nz/2009/08/19/convincing-kids-not-to-text-and-drive/ |
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| ginjo |
what a moving video, it brought me to tears.I think it would be an excellent idea to show it in all schools.A few weeks ago on the m25 near heathrow a young lad came screaming onto the motorway from a slip road, one hand on wheel, speaking on his mobile doing 70 mph, he also took his other hand off the wheel for a couple of seconds in an animated way that some people do when having a conversation.It scared me to death, unfortunately I did not get his reg number otherwise I would have reported him,that sort of recklessness should result in a ban for several years. |
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events sale / wanted general have your say looking for.. skippy greengrass |
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