Drink Driving Shock Tactics

[Eighteeteewhy]

In my job I get to visit various Army/RAF/Navy bases. In most of them are these staged accidents to try and deter drink driving. They certainly make you look twice, and make you think. Some of them are a lot more graphic than the one I'm showing with dummies hanging out of them and a lot of fake blood!
Would/could these work out on public roads?

[Harpo]

The daft bds did one recently with a bike accident without asking the NoK first. So effing dim ...............

[aw51 121565]

They should show the "thought-provoking" Australian drink drive ads on the haunted fishtank - "if you drink and drive yer a bldy idiot!" kinda thing .

I'd suggest they should also leave the wreckage and debris from accidents strewn about the place - the real deal on the side of the road but with the bodies and anything removeable removed, not mock ups - but it offends the sensibilities, apparently .

North Wales police using pics of the motorcycle, body and decapitated head of an allegedly speeding biker in their propoganda was taking it WAAAAY too far though!

[Hoofy]

I quite liked the ones over here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQtTREndJKk

Certainly makes me think how badly it would impact my life if I were to drink and drive.

Although, a benefits claimant won't give a st as he has no job to worry about losing.

Obviously, I don't not drink and drive just because I worry about losing my job!!

[ajp70]

Wrecks on the side of the road would only create more accidents from rubber-necking. TV dramas and public info stuff can do the job.

[Flibble]

ajp70 said:

Wrecks on the side of the road would only create more accidents from rubber-necking. TV dramas and public info stuff can do the job.

Too true - the amount of rubbernecking for even minor things like broken down cars beggars belief at times.

[e8_pack]

We used to do this every year when i was in the army back in '96, dummy's blood the lot - surprised they are still doing it!

[KieronGSi]

[quote=Eighteeteewhy]In my job I get to visit various Army/RAF/Navy bases. In most of them are these staged accidents to try and deter drink driving. They certainly make you look twice, and make you think. Some of them are a lot more graphic than the one I'm showing with dummies hanging out of them and a lot of fake blood!
Would/could these work out on public roads?


They only put them out for Christmas though.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Eighteeteewhy said:

In my job I get to visit various Army/RAF/Navy bases. In most of them are these staged accidents to try and deter drink driving. They certainly make you look twice, and make you think. Some of them are a lot more graphic than the one I'm showing with dummies hanging out of them and a lot of fake blood!
Would/could these work out on public roads?

On a public road the car would be half inched and weighed in within 10 minutes!

[jon-]

There's one in luton very similar to that on a public road. Over christmas it had fairy lights on, festive death!

[alfa pint]

We'd have one outside the front of the barracks every Christmas. We were at the bottom of a very quiet road in the country, so it wasn't likely to cause much in the way of rubber necking.

Fully justified though. We lost more blokes in RTAs in a year than we did in Iraq or Afghanistan - the stupid lads would go out in town on Thurs night, drink way too much, drive north on Friday, go out with their mates on Friday and Saturday night and attempt to drive all the way down south on Sunday, which is when they usually fell asleep at the wheel....

[carreauchompeur]

Interesting, I didn't know it was such a problem in the Forces.

[LuS1fer]

I was in a traffic jam the other day and all it was was a police car and a single broken down car - the road immediately after that was clear for miles and so it was purley plonkers rubbernecking. Idiots.

[BoostMonkey]

Petrolhead_Rich said:

On a public road the car would be half inched and weighed in within 10 minutes!

I was thinking exactly the same thing....

[Eighteeteewhy]

OK, so clearly they're not going to work if you put it on the side of the M4. I was thinking more around City Centres with big Drink Driving signs around. But I guess idiots will be idiots whatever you do.

[alfa pint]

carreauchompeur said:

Interesting, I didn't know it was such a problem in the Forces.

Young men with more money than their peers (usually!) but sent to different parts of the UK. Drinking / fun culture in the forces mixed with 1000 mile a weekend drives doesn't mix.

[redtwin]

Gaz. said:

No, becuase like most illegal things, some people don't think they will crash, or get caught, or that they are in the wrong in the first place. Its the sort of thing that happens to other people, if you get my drift.

Exactly the reason housands of people in prison, yet people still commit crime. Thousands die from aids yet people still have un-protected sex.