They need to do a "don't text and drive" version today.

I viewed this in drivers' training in 1968 and it had an impact, though as teenagers our sense of invincibility tended to minimize the message at the time we saw the film. Less than four years later, I was a first responder as an ambulance driver and had occasion to handle the bodies of those who time had come to an end. Now fifty years have gone by since then, and seeing this film is a sobering reminder of the dangers of being stupid and arrogant and not being mindful that defensive driving can save lives when someone else is reckless. It has saved my bacon many times in the two million miles I drove professionally, so I am thankful that such a raw film was produced and shown.

I am 78 years old and I went to traffic school at 16 for my first traffic ticket. I saw this movie back then. It brings back fond memories before I became a cop. Probably saved my life back then.

Our class was shown this film in the mid 60's as part of driver's training. It deeply impacted me and made me become a lifelong defensive driver. I anticipated any possibilities of other driver's mistakes, and watched behind and far in front, left and right. I tried never to put myself in an inescapable position. Thank the Lord, I have never been in an accident as a driver, and only a minor one with someone else driving. I've had a perfect driving record for 54 years. Don't get me wrong- I love fast cars and the feeling of power under the hood. I drag raced for several years, but I did it on a drag strip, not the street. This venue should be available to all young drivers as a much safer way to get the need for speed out of your system. But, instead, they are racing on the freeways and having circle burning get- togethers in warehouse districts The death toll is alarming and so very sad.

almost forgot about this film; sat through it in my driver's ed in 1970. The only thing 'controversial' about it is that is shows the real effects of bad driving and not just a Hollywood treatment.

The last time I saw this film was in 1976, in drivers ed class. I heard that such films are not shown anymore because "it might traumatize the students." That's too bad

I have this film on 16mm film. I also have Mechanized Death and Options To Live. I started collecting them from Ebay about the time most school systems were selling off their 16mm film collections but the price of these films would often go crazy high so I lost out on a bunch of them. My introduction to Highway Safety Films was in drivers ed back in 1982 where in the final class we were shown Wheels of Tragedy which not only shocked me but intrigued me. It wasn't until the late 90s before I could research and learn about these films online.

I ordered these brand new in CD format from the ohio BMV website years ago, they're free to ohio residents. Signal 30, mechanized death and highway of agony, highway of agonyis more reenactments and still crash pictures, this one and mechanized death are filmed live and are pretty awesome.

This film was part of training for new Ohio Bell Telephone Company employees who drove company cars and trucks in the 50s and 60s. This was the era before seat belts.

I recall this film and others like in 1972 driver ed class.

Saw this in 1968 in high school. I remember one student throwing up and others who couldn't bear to watch. It certainly was graphic. I believe there was another film similar to this. Statistics show that driving on a divided freeway is infinitely safer than two way streets. You don't see a lot of accidents on highways as you do on roads where cars are closer in proximity to each other. Accident reports also show that distracted driving is perhaps the greatest factor in most car accidents.

2:39….poor calf.😭

I lived 50 feet form the Ohio Highway Patrol Headquarters in Columbus in the 70's.....it was a very quiet place, an old building from the turn of the century that had been a school for the blind.....wish I had been able to work for them on these films, I was in art school at the time studying photography.......Parsons Avenue, Columbus Ohio

One thing they don't mention at all in this is drivers who are drunk. Medications prescribed by doctors and are abused play a role in accidents however, alcohol is a large problem. In todays world Cell phones cause accidents when people surf or text while driving. DRIVING REQUIRES 100 % OF YOUR ATTENTION! ONE SECOND CAN CAUSE DEATH MAJOR PROPERTY DAMAGES

This one right here! This movie got me to slow down and be more cautious.

These need to be shown today. It would definitely make people think twice.

Makes you think about life and how fragile it is

I was shown this film in the mid 60s as part of Drivers Ed in high school. There were other films too. I thought these would make it to the internet. imo.

We saw this and many other films in driver ed. The teacher just told us to watch and not be a victim. The teacher stared right at me. Lol, the week before I got pulled over driving the farm truck. Pulled over right in front of his house. Lol, he called my mother. So, I was getting it from my mom and the cop right in front of his house. Of course I had a girl with me in the truck. Then her dad showed up. Them it got real hot then. Everyone was angry at me. The last film he showed to the class was his film of the entire incident. Yea. He got out his movie camera. Lol, loved. That film was shown to about 20 years of driver ed classes.Various school assemblies. He passed on a few years ago. His daughters gave me a copy after his funeral. Why, they showed it and about two hours of his films. Please drive safely kids.

Drive as if your life - and the lives of others - depended on it. It does!

No seatbelts, no airbags, no antilock brakes, no crumple zones. These vehicles were dangerous.

Maybe if they still showed graphic scenes like this, there would be a lot less crazy drivers. Seriously, it's scary out there nowadays.

No one had a chance to live because no one had seat belts on. Seat belts weren't a big deal back then. If they had seat belts on and air bags they might have had a fighting chance to be alive. I remember there wasn't car seats for children back when I was little. No seat belts was a death waiting to happen. It's doesn't matter if they were speeding because they were going to die because of no seat belts. This is amazing how far we have come to protecting people in vehicles nowadays.

I saw this in driver’s Ed class in the 60s. Many students couldn’t watch it and put their heads down on the desk.

2:39 Poor cow, too. It is a shame they did not mention that, too.

Back in the day, I guess they didn't need permission to film like this. Can u imagine coming across Great Uncle Billy's accident being covered here? And yeah I was that girl cowering in the back of that cool dark classroom by the gym.

Oh God, it's high school all over again. Girls having to leave class to go to the bathroom, and the boys not feeling much better.

I ride a motorcycle and always wear proper protective gear. I'm always looking out for any trash in the road, especially at night, and don't follow too closely to other traffic. I'm always leaving myself a way out of a situation. Motorcycling in and of itself isn't dangerous, it is very unforgiving to inattentiveness, carelessness, and downright stupidity

I had driver's training in the mid 80s and thought these types of movies were made up joke in a movie or two. Well, I learned tonight they were real, WOW! I made me really think about all of the stupid stuff I did in a car as a kid!! Stuff like this would never even be considered to be shown these days. However, maybe it needs to be revisited??.

Remember seeing this film in driver's ed in 1979

At 18:, 1959 red/white Impala convertible. Pricey in 2022!

I have a DVD with a collection of these films on it, as well as a documentary on the guy behind most of the Highway Safety films of the 50's & 60's. Fascinating stuff. An attempt to frighten teens into compliance, they were ultimately a failure except for inspiring a host of movie make-up artists for horror, sci-fi, and the occasional war movie. You can't scare the stupid out of people.

Saw this in drivers ed in 68 .. i already had a drivers license ..but enjoyed the film..when they reduced the drinking age to 18 years old things really got bad..every monday morning we were hearing about one of our classmates who had either been killed or got a DUI ..this was happening all over the country..that was a bad idea .. i lost many friend's in the years before graduating in 73..if they had not changed the drinking age things might have been a little different..who know's..

I don't know why modern versions of that films aren't made and shown to today's youth in Driver's Ed class. I wonder how many lives it could save. My older brother and sister were shown that films in DE, but they didn't show it to my class a couple years later. I have no clue why, but maybe it would have made me a more careful driver when I was younger and I would have gotten fewer speeding tickets. It took getting rear-ended in an accident and having my leg broken for me to slow down. I wish I didn't have to learn the lesson the hard way and hope that others take it from me and learn from me. 25 years later, I still deal with pain on occasion from that broken leg.

These are so interesting and sad…

A perfect example of how some people mistake wrecklessness as experience, which only leads to fool hardy driving, which also leads to serious injury and or death.

This is great!

Saw this one multiple times in the early to mid 60’s in a small North Western Pennsylvania town at a Halloween costume contest every year. I was between 8-12 years old. A lot for young kids to handle. Maybe saw Mechanized Death too.

The Fatal Four: Sig30, Mechanized Death, Highways of Agony, Wheels of Tragedy.

The best way to teach

We saw all the blood-and-gore films when I was in High School.

We never saw anything like this when I was in drivers ed (2012 or 2013) but damn, it would have probably saved the lives of a few friends had schools kept showing films like these

Scared Straight on the roadway, before Scared Straight. Niiiice! I hadn't seen this one before. I took driver's ED in the late-80's and they still showed these driver's ED snuff films back then, seriously, films with a 16mm projector in Los Angeles. Sadly, showing this to the delicate High School students wouldn't fly today.

I saw this film in drivers education class in 1972. It was very gory then. Nowadays television has similar scenes.

One of these shows scared me ****less as a kid, and I watch them still to keep me aware.

I remember this film from 6th grade in school and to think now Disney films are unacceptable in school.

anyone else notice almost every car accident in this was a chevy ? makes me wonder if ford or dodge sponsered the film

This short film and its title was an inspiration to one of the greatest Mad Men episodes ever.

I saw this in drivers education in the seventies

This film is one of John Waters' favorites.

I remember watching this in driver's ed.

At 1:36 - the microphone works even better when you push the PTT button...

We weren't shown this in high school, but in DUI school. It had been colorized.

They really could have dispatched that cow. Geez

People talk about how older cars were "built like tanks" - but a look at the wreckage in the various accidents shows this wasn't true at all.

Gotta love Ohio. Go Buckeyes!

I started going on end calls when I was 15 years old. I became a fireman/ent at 18. I am 66 and I never drove over 65 mph. Put too many people in body bags in my lifetime.

Horrifying.

holy moly I didn't think I was in for a horror movie

The key message from these films today is that if you drive a car built in the fifties or sixties, drive carefully.

Shown at Navy Trying School prior to Holidays

Safety check factors: Lights, stop lights and windshield wipers. Seat belts? Nah.

They don't make videos like this anymore. Everything is sugar coated.

I feel so bad for the cattle, too.

19:25 i lost two of my cousins like this exactly. they were in the bed asleep and uncle Ronnie came around a turn, maybe even a little fast. There was another truck that broke down and they didn't have any cones or flares set out. he was hauling large cuts of lumber and barely survived himself. hes passed away since then as well. hard reminder

' the raging furious result '. You can't make this up.

The poor cows were killed, too.

They showed this to us in Driver's Ed in 1967. It should be mandatory today.

The cop answering the dispatcher had a voice activated mic, the spoke into it and never activated the mic with the thumb switch.

1981 Drivers Ed.

This film was a big damn deal when I was in High School.

I have always thought that running a stop sign should be treated VERY seriously! If the offender causes an wreck, they should have to pay for damages out of pocket. If a death is caused then it should be treated as a homicide at minimum! Running a stop sign, is a selfish and easily avoidable problem. Same again for texting. I didn't say "accident" on purpose by the way. Accidents are unavailable, but these wrecks are easily avoidable!

2 many crybabies today,they couldnt watch this film without crying and wanted it banned

I was only doing 40. ??????!!! Put a 100.in front of that . Lmao 😂🤣

2023,2024 and its worst nowthen when this film was made,as a trucker whi hauls pipe and steel that 1 scene made me think,god help us

Unguarded RR crossings are illegal in my county. Most have built overpasses or underpasses at train/auto intersections.

RIP

No latex gloves back then . . .

i have seen some bad accidents from carelessness i have seen a baby that was thorn through a windsheild after te driver crossed tyhe center line

makes you think

In a modern car most of these people would have lived with a seatbelt

Jesus damn!

Here are the death screams of a passenger. The driver was to blame for her death, failing to stop at a stop sign. No chance that the brakes failed, no, there must have been a driver error. For if there is no one to blame, how can the point be made that drivers are always responsible for everything that happens while driving. Here is the lifeless body of a child. Aren't the realities of driving gruesome? Doesn't it make you want to be absolutely certain of everything when you drive? Or does it make you throw up a little in your mouth that a filmmaker in the late fifties saw a wonderful way to use a movie to frighten their intended audience. Keep in mind that the Hays code was in full force at this time. Hollywood wasn't allowed to portray "profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape." But if you're working for the Ohio State Patrol, hey, bring on those corpses and the mangled steel remnants that used to be cars. And be sure to emphasize that drivers may be killed by any of their fellow drivers even if they obey every rule. No, there will always be vicious and callous killers out there ready to take the lives of their fellow persons. And yes, this is the first time I have ever watched this film. I'm nearly 50 and I didn't need to have dead bodies and horrible accidents paraded in front of me so that I understood the gravity of being in charge of a large cumbersome object that can reach speeds that rival a passenger train. Funny that. You'd almost think that a film like this wasn't necessary.

Films like this promoted (and continue to promote) the fallacy that "defensive", law abiding drivers can stay out of accidents.The fact is that an automobile-based transportation system like America's has a high number of deaths and injuries built into it, thanks to the inherently erratic and unstable nature of the automobile itself, plus human fallibility.

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Should be shown in schools but alas, kids are too protected and mollycoddled today; I suspect it would be inappropriate .

Not much has changed, speed limits ignored, stop signal too. While cars are made safer all the time people just keep getting more stupid. Ever see the self driving car with driver-supposed to be ready to take over-sleeping behind wheel?

Stop planting trees on the side of the road. People should not have to put up with streets lined with deadly trees to be safe.

"most of actors in these movies are bad actors and received top billing, only on a tombstone" wild 😂

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Wouldn't have happened in the Tucker 48

It looks like old cars were made of tin foil and baling wire.

this is what happens when you let your cow drive !!!!!

And they say people in the South can't drive? All the good drivers live up North? haha

21:41 😂 UNLESS DRIVING UNDER BRITISH MANDATE 😮 😕 🔝 👇🏼 😕

Bruh

If these dip💩 films had ANY impact on reducing automobile fatalities whatsoever, they would still be shown in schools today.

Pour les amoureux du karma !!!😁😁😁😁

And be racist

some of the acting here is just dull and lifeless