dupe of: http://www.videosift.com/video/Very-haunting-but-effective-road-safety-ad

"As a parent this sends chills down my back..."

As it should, I've always thought that British road safety adverts where very effective, such things need to be so graphic and so moving because people need to remember that they are driving large metal boxes which tread such a fine line between a nice mode of transport to a object that kills people. And this is only compounded by the fact that there are so many cars on the road.

MarineGunrock is wrong about everything he said except possibly that this might be a technically legal checkpoint. Clearly, the people were seized and searched without a warrant issued with probably cause. And the 4th Amendment has EVERYTHING to do with being able to go where you want without fear of being stopped by the police; the Supreme Court decided in Katz v. US that the 4th Amendment protects people, not places, whenever there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.

But the supreme court has also carved out an exception for drunk driving and road safety checkpoints in Michigan State Police v. Sitz, where the checkpoint relates to issues pertaining to safe use of the roads on which the stopped motorist was driving. This is to be distinguished from City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, where the Supreme Court ruled checkpoints unrelated to road safety are NOT constitutional; that is, where the checkpoint is just a fishing expedition to attempt to gather evidence of ordinary criminal wrongdoing, such as pirated music videos, unlicensed software, drugs, etc.

So this may fall into the category of a legal checkpoint from a federal 4th amendment point of view, but only if the specific State (or D of C) has not augmented protections over those decided by the Supreme Court.
Certainly the point that the Police State is coming via the gradual encroachment on and erosion of civil liberties is well taken, and is the main thrust of this video. I sincerely feel that people that don't like the American Constitution and don't value the inalienable rights that it protects and that so many have fought for in so many wars in the last 200 years (even if a majority want to deny them) should move to a country where it is legal to just stop people on the street without suspicion or cause.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'road safety, czech, car, accident, cell phone' to 'road safety, czech, car, accident, cell phone, ZAPLATIS' - edited by doogle

^some french government's road safety initiative, official site here:
http://www.securiteroutiere.gouv.fr/

I drive high all the time.... easy as pie. A lot easier than talking on a cell... or eating fast food. But why take away freedom for nothing? Road safety is important, but not at the expense of freedom. What people should really do is rally to get rid of the no-fault insurance system so people can sue for car accidents in tort law. Than we will all think twice about the real expense of getting into accidents, right where it counts, in our wallets. Cause we all know thats where people feel it the most. This criminal bullshit for making mistakes on the road is ridiculous...especially when no one is hurt but the driver.

I don't even think this point was correctly made on the video which is a bit of a let down, but saying "We want a minimum <anything> per day/week/month/year!" is basically saying that you specifically DON'T want to eradicate road safety.

I *demand* that 10 people run a red light every single day. What, people have stopped running red lights? OK, let's trick them into running red lights.

Forget road safety for a few minutes, this is everything that's wrong with today's society.

It's a fake, but funnily made by The Danish Road Safety Council, as you can see their url is the same name the network logo shows on the upper left.

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