Johnny

 

Definitely not for a weak stomach... As a first responder I've seen my share of car wrecks, some a lot worse than whats in that video. No matter how much safety equipment is on cars today the serious accident end results are still very similar. I will say the, extrication, treatment, and transport techniques have come along way since then.

 

Seemed to be a lot of Oldsmobile vehicles in the video?

 

Similar to a movie the class had to watch when I took driver's ed back in 1967. I seem to recall it was filmed in Ohio, though, rather than California. It was an eye-opener for this 16-year old.

Randy C.

 

Yeah back in the mid 70's we had a bunch of those type of movies to watch.

 

Thank goodness that emergency response technology has improved along with safer modern automobiles design.

Were still left with inattentive drivers who follow too close or other wise not aware of their surroundings and of course the DUI aspect.

We had films in drivers ed back in the early eighties, but not quite like that. Perhaps we need more of that.

Its a shame though, because we might offend someone with..the facts, and actually learn from them.

 

I remember having to watch a couple of those films in drivers' ed back in the late '70s. The only title i remember was "Signal 30," which was made sometime in the early to mid '50s. Pretty gruesome stuff. One of the most laughable films we had to watch was one we had to watch on "new" vehicle safety technologies and how they could save lives. It was laughable because the film was at least 30 years old when I took drivers' ed and the "emerging" technologies featured in the film--seat belts, padded dashboards, laminated windshields, rotating door latches, etc.--had long been standard equipment by 1979 and many more had been added.

I got a chuckle at "Red Asphalt" being dated 1960 when the patrol car was more like a '65 of '66 model. My uncle is retired from state law enforcement (SLED) in South Carolina and drove unmarked Oldsmobiles in the '60s and '70s until Olds exited that market (or the state of South Carolina stopped buying them) in the late '70s. His last one was a '75 Delta 88, midnight blue with a white painted roof. Apparently vinyl was too expensive. They also grudgingly agreed to a six-way power bench seat since he had suffered a back injury in the line of duty a few years earlier. He held onto that car as long as he could but they made him relinquish it for a '79 Caprice, which he didn't like nearly as well.

 

This is exactly the kind of movie the high school always used to show during assemblies just before prom time every spring back in the '60's. I guess the intent was to try and scare everybody into not doing something stupid.

 

The initial shot is a 67 Olds Patrol car, the 1st ambulance is the red 63 Olds and there is a rear shot of what looks like a 65 Olds 88 police car.

 

Just change the time frame and that is how texting or messing with a cel phone can cause the same problems. I see it every day, on the highway and on city streets. There should be a way to disable cel phones if they are being used in a moving vehicle.

 

I couldn't agree more Ed. I have found myself cursing under my breath as I am
driving, and most that I see doing stupid $hit are just talking on the durn things.

If I need to dial my cell, I will pull over. I don't need to be distracted tying to dial, much less text. But I don't text anyway. If you want to talk, call me, geeze. Now If it rings, I might pick it up and go from there, but never in traffic. To many cars on the roads nowadays anyway. Point A to point B seems to be a damn job anymore.

 

I remember the Ohio State Patrol movies, even though they were in black and white, someone would get sick. I still remember the semi carrying one inch diameter round rods. The trailer didn't have a good safety plate and during the crash the rods shifted forward through the cab with multiple rods impaling the driver. He pretty much looked like a porcupine. This was in the mid 60s.

 

That was one of the top ones we watched when I was in HS.

 

Having seriously injured myself in several dirt bike crashes, requiring backwoods helicopter extractions, I CRINGED to see the EMTs casually lifting the injured onto the stretchers

 

But back then they were not really EMT trained. Mostly they were ambulance drivers, sent to pick up casualties from wrecks with little or no medical training. I had a good friend that was an ambulance driver and he had no training at all but he could drive an ambulance faster than anyone else.

 

We watched this video in drivers ed. I always remembered the name. Stuck with me.

That was in 2005.

 

I"m glad first responders are trained. Now a days, they not only know first aid they are certified in many other aspects, like para medicine. We've come a long ways since then and I hope no one ever needs their services.

BTW, there are devices to block cell transmissions. They are Illegal.