Texting While Driving: Bloody & Graphic PSA featured on The Today Show
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Ohmy god! :’( this is so sad! im seriously crying right now! that frightened me so much!
So like did the baby die?
wow
@PeptoAnn Yes the baby died
Thump reminds me of Final Destination!
excellent business they had there seatbelts on:]
Add gets the point crosswise. I want my son to see it.
ganymedeIV4: The other driver could have been right behind them and did not have time to react. I can hear the brakes in the background, there just wasn’t enough time to stop or at least slow down dome more.
@declanroxs this is meant to scare you till you get the point
@PeptoAnn yes
@PeptoAnn No, the baby was supposedly in shock. Both parents and Cassie’s friends “died”.
@ganymedeIV4 Didn’t you notice the blue car stopping in the incorrect lane at 0.58? The red Gala had to swerve to avoid it. Its driver presumably proposed to stop beyond the thump and park out of the way, but the car overshooting gave him no choice but to swerve. He didn’t make it through the closing gap. Very often in multi-car accidents more than one driver is at flaw, but you’re blaming the incorrect guy here. The driver of the blue car wasn’t paying enough attention.
@PeptoAnn yeah everyone died except for the small girl that wanted her parents to wake up!!!.. i saw this today in my class.. it was so intense i felt like crying!
too graphic? it’s not like csi. i plotting this video was a fantastic way to show what could happen when you text and drive. maybe they should make a simular video for other dangers like putting on makeup even as pouring and etc. it’s all the same.
@ganymedeIV4 That won’t help any because they still have to get pouring experience no matter if you are 12 or 25 beginning pouring, Maybe they should band cell phones until people are 18
This maybe a bit of ignorance on my part but would a PSA like this really struggle to be place on Prime-Time TV in the US. I mean it was featured on the BBC and they showed the full 30 min PSA during Prime Time hours. Are US tv stations a bit more cautious about what they show?
I reflect this video is very powerful. I just saw it last nighttime and wish they had this video when I was in high school. Each high school should show this video. It would have been far more powerful than the Trauma Nurses presentation.
@ganymedeIV4 That wont help, they need to make it illegal to use a cell phone for ANYTHING in a car, and they should get rid of texting in phones. No one needs texting at all.
@Usubaa I agree, that would probably be the one of the best things to ever happen in America.
@redemption136 They are both just as perilous, though I honestly despise texting and pouring more than drinking and pouring because I personally despise cell phones.
I texted and drove before I watched this. Consider me converted.
they do an organzitation called V.I.P for V.I.P came by my school and showed this video
this commercial should be shown on usa television.on a regular basis
this is so sad:(
I am using this for my persuasive speech in class, if this does not help, what will?