Vehicle Safety Program - "We've Got to Get Them Off the Road" (PSA, 1979)

Описание: Here's a public service announcement (with kind of a disturbing ending) underscoring the damage caused by reckless drivers in Nashville who ignore basic traffic safety, starting out with piles of totaled and destroyed autos at a lot, then panning through a cemetery (to show how many buried six feet under had been killed in traffic accidents - 13,000 such accidents in Nashville in 1978 alone), before we see examples by one driver of all the various violations of basic safety protocols on the road: failing to yield the right of way, following too closely, not using turn signals, speeding, and of course driving under the influence. As the offending driver stops his car at a curb, a huge hand (right out of one of those bad 1950's sci-fi films) picks up the car and takes it (and him) away, showing just how serious they are about getting such offenders out of circulation.

Voiceover by Jack Webb (who a decade before had done PSA's on TV and radio pushing for people to wear seat belts in autos).

"Careless drivers cause accidents, injury - and death."

This aired on local Nashville TV early Sunday, May 20th 1979 a little before 1:30am.

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