Wheels...of...TRAGEDY!
Remember sitting in a darkened classroom, watching gory highway-safety films like Red Asphalt and Wheels of Tragedy, filled with real accident scene footage meant to scare you into being a safe driver? I sure do. Now Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films lets you relive those shocking Driver's Ed. films of yesteryear. Once again, YouTube comes through in the clutch and provides relevant clippage, including the MST3K version.
[Link: Hell's Highway][via sullenboy]
[Link: Wheels of Tragedy excerpt]
[Link: Last Clear Chance (MST3K version)]
Comments
That was a good documentary. It might be a tribute to the power of those gross-out drivers ed movies that they were still being shown when I was in high school (80s) several years after they were filmed.
Which was worse - the gory crash footage or the painfully wooden reenactments that preceded them?
Posted by: Matt | June 28, 2006 12:45 PM
They certainly had power over kids who were already inclined to be safe drivers; the one who were reckless jerks just laughed it off, and I recall them being disappointed at how tame the actual crash footage was.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | June 28, 2006 4:07 PM