Wear Your Seatbelt ? (1 Viewer)

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Crikey! What a powerful and thought provoking delivery.........

Clever use of emotion and music (swear i nearly had a little watery eye :Blush:)

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Thanks for posting this i have just made my daughter watch it .

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Waste of our money -- Darwin.

Anyone who does not use a belt after 40 years of them being a legal requirement is doing us a favour by dying out.

Seriously, if that is used as a paid for advert on TV is that money well spent when hospital wards are closing, and patients are being refused treatment on cost grounds.
 
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Waste of our money -- Darwin.

Anyone who does not use a belt after 40 years of them being a legal requirement is doing us a favour by dying out.

Seriously, if that is used as a paid for advert on TV is that money well spent when hospital wards are closing, and patients are being refused treatment on cost grounds.

Brian, I can't let that go without comment. The advert is clearly trying to use emotion to remind people to wear safety belts in cars. Many more graphic adverts have failed to get through to many people so this is perhaps an effective alternative.

As you know I am an air ambulance pilot (not a doctor) but based on what I see on a daily basis I would say a lot of money would be saved 'if the patient had only worn a seat belt'. We are often tasked to take a specialist retrieval team by air to pick up and bring back a critically ill patient who is injured as a result of a car crash.........the expense is enormous :Eeek:

Also, although an individual may not consider their life valuable I would imagine that their spouse, child or whatever does and would rather they stay alive and healthy than dead or maimed for life.

I do not think it is all about cost:Sad:

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Waste of our money -- Darwin.

Anyone who does not use a belt after 40 years of them being a legal requirement is doing us a favour by dying out.

Seriously, if that is used as a paid for advert on TV is that money well spent when hospital wards are closing, and patients are being refused treatment on cost grounds.

I don't think public money is involved, this is just appearing on you tube.
If it does finally persuade a few to wear their seat belt then perhaps money would be well spent :thumb:
 

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I learned the value of seats belts way back when I raced... Always use one and always berate those that do not.. Anything that promotes their value is good as far as I am concerned :thumb:
 

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Certainly a lot of thought has gone into this to produce what one has alrady described as a very powerful 'advertisement' without the unpleasant reality of what DOES happen in such an accident. And, to repeat what I said some weeks back on a similar thread, these are the sort of films that the TV channels should be compelled to show amongst the commercials (free of charge) as conditions of their licence. In that way they reach their maximum audience. Very impressive.:thumb:

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what they need to start showing is the damage an airbag does to a person if a seat belt isn't worn with one.
 

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Brian, I can't let that go without comment.

As you know I am an air ambulance pilot (not a doctor) but based on what I see on a daily basis I would say a lot of money would be saved 'if the patient had only worn a seat belt'.

....the expense is enormous :Eeek:

I do not think it is all about cost:Sad:

Good point. I am amazed/horified that you see a lot of injured people not wearing seatbelts which means many times more not wearing belts that are not involved in accidents. How dumb is that.

But it is about cost. Does that advert save more lives than spending the same money on hospital personnel ?

I don't know, you may well be right.
 
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Chockswahay

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Good point. I am amazed/horified that you see a lot of injured people not wearing seatbelts which means many times more not wearing belts that are not involved in accidents. How dumb is that.

I think I understand you. It is of course also related to the amount of people who drink and drive. Either way, when involved in a car crash seat belts and air bags reduce the chance of serious injury manyfold.

Medical treatment and how the patient got there will ALWAYS be a contentious issue.......what about smokers,drinkers, drug addicts and so on. We have a health service that (mostly) works, it can not afford to be too moral of judgemental in its delivery.

Mind you, if I had my way all 'preventative' medical treatment would be paid for for :hardhat: :reel:

I'll get me coat and duck for cover now :winky:
 

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....Does that advert save more lives than spending the same money on hospital personnel ?

The effectiveness of any initiative that has anything to do with 'prevention' can never be judged accurately. We know that there will always be the reply ,"If it saves one life ......." etc. However, there is one thing that can be measured: The cost of any fatal road collision runs into seven figures. So personally, I feel the costs in producing effective films such as this are totally justified - providing they reach a wide audience.
 

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Before the argument is lost. "Not wearing a seat belt, and not ensuring every passenger in your car is wearing a seat belt is stupidity beyong belief. "
Anyone found not wearing a seat belt who is involved in an accident should, even if they are the victim in the accident, be prosecuted.

However the ad whilst a masterpiece of film directing, producing, scripting and acting would, as has already been proved by previous replies, be acclaimed by sensible folk who never drive without wearing a seatbelt. I doubt it would have any effect whatsoever on those careless and irresponsible drivers who either forget or never intend wearing seatblets or the irresponsible parents who drive around with their children unbelted in their vehicles.

As regards older people not wearing seatbelts as mentioned in one reply I have say from personal observation it is the young and young mothers who seem to think their "large" 4 x 4's offer them protection in an accident and therefore they and their occupants don't need to wear seatblets.

Sorry this has turned into a rant - but I have strong feelings about seat belt wearing and especially by children.

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There have been a couple of tragic accidents in recent weeks where the adults in the front of cars have survived and the children in the back have not, it does make you think what happened, frightening:whatthe:
 

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Before the argument is lost. "Not wearing a seat belt, and not ensuring every passenger in your car is wearing a seat belt is stupidity beyong belief. "
Anyone found not wearing a seat belt who is involved in an accident should, even if they are the victim in the accident, be prosecuted.

However the ad whilst a masterpiece of film directing, producing, scripting and acting would, as has already been proved by previous replies, be acclaimed by sensible folk who never drive without wearing a seatbelt. I doubt it would have any effect whatsoever on those careless and irresponsible drivers who either forget or never intend wearing seatblets or the irresponsible parents who drive around with their children unbelted in their vehicles.

As regards older people not wearing seatbelts as mentioned in one reply I have say from personal observation it is the young and young mothers who seem to think their "large" 4 x 4's offer them protection in an accident and therefore they and their occupants don't need to wear seatblets.

Sorry this has turned into a rant - but I have strong feelings about seat belt wearing and especially by children.


Norman

I agree totally with your comments. I live half way between Leeds and Bradford and just a couple of miles from the main road between these cities. I can stand at the traffic lights there and see within a matter of just a few minutes many cars going by with un-belted children in them. It seems to be a cultural issue. Most of these vehicles are driven by Asians and do not get stopped by the police. I would like to say before the brickbats start flying that I am not being racist. Just pointing out the facts.

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and the children in the back have not, it does make you think what happened, frightening:whatthe:

We seem to be in a age where kids are no longer under the control of their parents. Rather then risk a tantrum they just give in. Hence kids glued to TV, computers wearing seriously overprices shoes and clothes.

And also an age where people are proud to be ignorant of science and in their severely limited minds, the kids are safe in the back far from that nasty windscreen.

Just for the record, assume car stops very quickly from 30. Those unbelted in the front hit with windscreen after the car has slowed by 10 mph, the car is at 20 mph, they are at 30 mph so smack the screen at 10 mph. That's going to hurt.

The kids in the back are still at 30 mph and rapidly approaching the windscreen, by the time they get there the car has now slowed by 20 mph, so the car is doing 10 mph the kids still at 30 mph so they hit the windscreen at 20 mph. End of kids.
 

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