remember driver ed crash movies??

[oldchevyseller]

i still wonder why they showed us these ,nothing but freak us out,,but i was lurking around and saw this movie about the classes,


http://www.kino.com/hellshighway/

[brjr51]

Those were classics. Most I remember being shown were shot in the 50's with lots of 50's sedans with the drivers windshield broken out from no seatbelts. I also remember a scene with a new mid 60's Stingray upside down in a creek and the narrator talking about how 2 boys lost their life when they lost control of their brand new sports car Daddy bought em.

[Nads]

The Butthole Surfers used to show them behind the stage when they played.
We opened up for 'em one time in '86 and when they came on it wasn't ten minutes into their set that a buddy puked all over the floor. He wasn't really drunk but the decapitation images got the better of him.

We had these flicks in England too, but I don't ours were as graphic as Stateside ones.

[Church]

My dad used to teach drivers ed and show those flicks. I think one was called "Red Asphalt". During the big crash sequence he would toss an empty garbage can down the aisle and scare the shit out of all the sleepers.

[RagDoll]

road..what school did your Dad teach at? My drive-ed teacher did that.

I was so trying to remember the name of Red Asphalt. My classmates thought I was sick..I kept laughing at some of the acting and dramatics. I remember looking forward to the movies so I could check out the cars.

[Big A]

Not crash film, but a production still from a sex ed movie...

http://www.threeringcircus.ca/BigA/adol_01.jpg

Evidently puberty will drive you so nuts that you'll want to peel the whitewalls off your hot rod... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Action Girl]

I am the authority on this crap...

I have just about all of these movies in my collection. The best ones, by far, are the ones put out by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. They are totally gory and hideous. You can most of these movies from http://www.somethingweird.com/. My personal favorites are Wheels of Tragedy, Red Asphalt, and Signal Thirty (all Ohio State Highway patrol productions). Theres a great one from the 70's called the Last Prom that is great also- a big old love van crashes into a bridge support, killing the "nice girl".

I started collecting old educational films years ago and to this day I can't seem to get enough of seeing them. The drivers ed ones are definitely my favorite, but there's also some wonderful Sex Ed/VD/horrors of drug abuse ones...

Something Weird has just about all of them and I think you can even get all of the Ohio State Highway Patrol ones on one DVD...

Stacey

[Justin415]

I just remember our teacher asking us if we noticed anything unusual while the camera was panning up 50mi of dead bodies (actors) laying out cluttering the freeway. When he stoped the film on a young man in the midst of the bodies who was flipping the camera off in post mordem. HAHAHA. Oh and we had trans ams and cameros at this drivers ed school, and got to drive em in the snowy streets of ME where I grew up, what a blast.

[Kevin Lee]

I've seen Signal Thirty and some others...nuts. The part I remember most wasn't the charred guy they pulled out of the truck that didn't get across the tracks in time, or the truck driver that was crushed against the dash by a shifting load of sewer pipe he was hauling, or even the football star that was smashed in half between the B pillar and a tree.

Nope the most disturbing was the audio that went with clips of a live action scene (real) somewhere in a residential neighborhood. A fatality with a few people just badly hurt and screaming for help from the nearby paramedics.

[Church]

RagDoll. He taught at Fremont High School for years and years, then Monta Vista in Cupertino from 1987(?) the mid 90's. According to your location, you are definitely in the right area.

[Paul]

when my son was in high school one of his best freinds' father died in a horrible accident

the next year when my son and his friend were taking drivers ed, there on the screen was my sons friends father cut in half.

bastards

[AntiBling]

I took drivers ed when I was 14 since thats when you can get a license here. Our drivers ed teacher said he isnt supposed to show us the graphic videos but he showed us red asphalt anyways. Is it wrong to say I enjoyed it?

[Brad54]

They never showed us those when I took DE (Sylvania, Ohio, '86).
We did see Reefer Madness! though. I'm sure it kept a lot of my fellow highschoolers of the dope!

My first night of on the road driver's ed was worse than the movies, though: On a dark country road, we were one of the first cars to come up on a station wagon that crossed the centerline and hit a Peterbilt truck. Sheared the left front fender AND WHEEL of the truck off. The driver of the truck was dazed, and just climbing out of the cab when I walked past him. Somebody was putting a blanket over the body in the driver's seat of the station wagon.
Freaked one of the girls out in our class so bad she dropped out of the class and didn't get her liscense.
-Brad

[Bugman]

They don't show those to us anymore. Maybe if the did, the cell phone idiots would pay more attention to their driving. On the other hand todays youth are so used to excessive violence that it might not have the impact it once did(no pun intended)

-Jeff

[Crafty]

Someone posted these to the uk nsra pages last week...

Part 1 (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=CoolHotRo dA)

Part 2 (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=CoolHotRo dB)

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Those movies should be shown to kids...it should freak you out..Until youve seen whats left of a human body after a nasty ass wreck from stupidity like drinking and driving or just plain carelessness you cant understand,but its something you NEVER fuckin forget..its hardcore reality!!

[Smokin Joe]

A driver's ed teacher I knew was killed in a driver's ed car. Crushed by a train on a siding that was hardly ever used. The girl driving went thru the underpass under the main tracks and got hit by a train crossing on the siding just past the underpass. She heard the signal, but thought it was a train on the main tracks they'd just gone under.
You can't see a train on that siding untill you clear the underpass and by then it's too late.

[lilbill]

there used to be a wrecker service here (closed down about 20 yrs ago) that had a whole wall devoted to photos taken at crash scenes they'd worked. some of them went back to the 20s.i bet there were a thousand pictures on that wall. i wonder what ever happened to them........

[CherryBlossom]

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when my son was in high school one of his best freinds' father died in a horrible accident

the next year when my son and his friend were taking drivers ed, there on the screen was my sons friends father cut in half.

bastards



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Don't they have to get family permission to use stuff like that? For that purpose alone...?

[63CadGuy]

Crafty, that Hot Rod movie was pretty cool.

[InPrimer]

I still remember 2 that I saw in Drivers Ed circa 1963 Death on the Highway , and Mechanized Death. From what I remember are a bunch of people getting hit by trains and a flatbed truck with lots of pipe on it that had the chains let go and went through the cab.FWIT, To this day (over40 yrs of driving) I still pay extra attention when Im near a flatbed hauling metal and pipe. left quite an impression on me

[zman]

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I am the authority on this crap...

Stacey

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Then you should check out my friend Skip's stuff.

http://www.avgeeks.com/

[Gracie]

The only movie like this I ever saw was about behaving on the school bus... it was bloody as hell... and I was in 4th grade. I had to ride the bus home that day... but I never rode it again... Mom was pissed that they scared me so bad that she had to come pick me up from school daily after that. 4th grade is too young for that shit. I still remember the kid playing with the knife and the bus stopped short and he stabbed the girl sitting in front of him.