Is it normal that i was severely frightened watching a car crash video?

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I'm 18 years old, and yesterday the students in my year were gathered in the hall to watch a road safety video. As most of us had turned 18 and were thinking of getting driving lessons, we had to watch a video about road accidents. Uh-oh.

And it was the most horrific, disturbing and barely watchable video I've ever seen. The car crash victims suffered some grotesque injuries. One car crash victim ended up with both his eyes gouged out, another had tears in her neck and her nose hanging by a thread, another was pretty much cut in half, and a baby was a pile of blood and guts. There was only one character that didn't get injured, but sadly this character died of the shock.

There was also plenty of screaming, distress, ambulences wailing and emotional music to make watching it like experiencing the real thing. To round it off, the video fades out saying that in the course of watching the video, 13 people have died on British roads, and that 7 in 10 new drivers in Britain have at least one accident in their first year of driving.

It was seriously gross, and was 15-rated. In America the equivalent of 15 is R. And I walked out of the hall in tears. It was such a depressing, cruelly brutal film of the sadly realistic effects of a car crash, and it really frightened me. I couldn't take so much blood.

Now, I'm afraid to drive, all because of it. I'm afraid to get behind the wheel and I'm having driving lessons in two month's time. is it normal to afraid from watching a car crash video or was I just being a big wimp?

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  • howaminotmyself
    13 years ago

    They made me watch "Red Asphalt" in Driver's Ed. I think the point is to scare you shitless.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      This wasn't Red Asphalt, it was called "No Need to Hurry", meaning don't speed. But it was as bad.

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  • megadriver
    10 years ago

    That film is made especially "scary" (If we can call it that), so it gives young drivers a shock! So you know what to avoid! I am not scared by car crash videos. I did however live through a real car crash. Not scared of that either. I love driving too much. Anyway: I was with a friend. We were going to a friend's birthday party at the next town. I was the front passenger. The driver's girlfriend was in the back. The idiot decided to show off on a corner and get his old BMW to slide a bit. But the BMW didn't slide a bit. It slid right into the ditch and hit a rock! I can tell you, it was not fun! Both of us had no injuries, getting hit by the airbag was painfull, but his girlfriend in the back was with a broken nose. He sold the car afterwards. Now he drives a VW, but I don't think I will be getting in a car with him again. He didn't learn anything from that crash. I like cars too. I love driving. And on a parking lot, or empty snowy road with no danger, I like to slide my car too, but doing that on the streets is wrong! We are not in some racing movie! This is real life and you don't have a rewind feature!
    If you want to drive like a retard, go on a track day and push the car to the limit. Or if you are me, get somebody else's car and push it to the limit (Cause I love my car too much to drive her hard)

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  • jelmertshow
    13 years ago

    Holy $h!t that must have been scary!!!!!

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  • malcolmfarrar
    13 years ago

    This is seriously disturbing, but this way of promoting Road Safety is used by ill informed and amateur practitioners who don't understand how to promote the best in our young road users.

    To be moved by graphic images is normal, to use the images to scare young people into being safer drivers...does not work.

    In fact when you consider all the facts our new drivers today are the best trained drivers we produce, you have to do more than any previous generation to get your licence, so lots of respect for that.

    Many Road Safety Practitioners still believe that by informing someone of something that is good for them, then, they will do it.

    I believe that if you promote Road Safety Education in a positive and pro active way you bring out the best in our young newly qualified drivers.
    Please do not be put off by what you saw, I have many years of experience in Road Safety and this type of imagery does nothing other than scare people, even I would find it sickening.

    Learn to drive, take your time with a good instructor,consider Pass Plus, and enjoy what I hope will be many years of safe motoring.

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  • Thatguy777
    13 years ago

    I hate how those ass holes make you watch those videos! I was actually in a wreck when I was 10 years old which made me TERRIFIED to get in a car for a year. A few years after I recovered, I was to watch a similar video. I don't want to drive, because I always fear something like this will happen. I mean damn. That stuff doesn't help people be careful, it just makes us never want to drive..

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  • Jazien
    13 years ago

    It's totally normal. I had to watch stuff like this in my drivers-ed class. The point is - always be a safe driver, and don't do stupid things like speed. Ever since I saw a crash at a four way, know I always check for cars even if the light is red just in case some idiot is barreling through.

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  • MercedesBenz
    13 years ago

    Wow! I remember my drivers ed consisted of an old computer program where you drove around on a street. If you stopped in the crosswalk I remember the voice would say, "PEDESTRIANS DON'T WANT TO WALK OVER YOUR CAR. DON'T STOP IN THE CROSS WALK." LOL! I still get a little nervous around crosswalks this 10+ years later.

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