Death On The Highway

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  • @trent3872
    @trent38728 ай бұрын

    That cop looking around before he pilfers that wallet😂😂😂

  • @ryancraig2795
    @ryancraig27958 ай бұрын

    The guy talking at the beginning is stiffer than the bodies they hauled away.

  • @andsoitbegins464

    @andsoitbegins464

    Ай бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @alshotrodsandratrods8780
    @alshotrodsandratrods87807 ай бұрын

    I like how the 1953 Plymouth sedan turned into a 1950 Plymouth three window coupe with minor front end damage after the accident and the 1953 Cadillac turned into a 1939 Willys. Those two guys at the desk had a bit of stage fright.

  • @knackerEv

    @knackerEv

    6 ай бұрын

    Quite the narrators they were. Reminds me of growing up going to school in Dallas. Couldn't tell you how many times I had to ask, wott? Ya lost me.

  • @davep153
    @davep1538 ай бұрын

    Love the music that goes with this. No seatbelt for the kid either. Remember dancing and hopping in Grandpa's back seat of Cadillac listening to music on 8track tape😁

  • @MattGuzman-ng2yx

    @MattGuzman-ng2yx

    8 ай бұрын

    No, there were no seatbelts then. Seatbelts were on option not available to all car manufactureres. 😢

  • @miapdx503

    @miapdx503

    8 ай бұрын

    I'm in my 60s, and I remember no seatbelts...we bounced around like pinball. If someone hit the brakes you slammed into the back of the front seats. I got a bloody lip once. It's just the way it was...scary. Also my folks were alcoholics who often drove drunk. It was terrifying, especially in the Rocky Mountains. 😐

  • @yvette8492

    @yvette8492

    8 ай бұрын

    Seat belts became the law in 1969. Just got my first VW.😊

  • @MsKeebe
    @MsKeebe6 ай бұрын

    I think it was mighty smart to double up on some of services. Who knew how brave the town’s milkmen could be at an accident.

  • @philliplozano7326
    @philliplozano73268 ай бұрын

    I remember Drivers Ed. when I was attending Austin Senior High, I remember having to watch "Blood on the Highway", oh man-to-man that was a good one!!

  • @sheepdip6452
    @sheepdip645210 ай бұрын

    Like one of those movies we'd watch in Driver's Ed in high school back in the mid 80s ... along with the driving simulators :)

  • @deliveryguyrx

    @deliveryguyrx

    9 ай бұрын

    Have you seen "The Last Prom"? I consider it a must see.

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    9 ай бұрын

    I never saw that one, but I saw "Wheels of Tragedy" and "Mechanized Death" in my Boy Scout Troop in 1971-2. There were many older Scouts in Troop 5 that year.

  • @trent3872

    @trent3872

    8 ай бұрын

    I remember those simulators lol.

  • @maryowens1872

    @maryowens1872

    8 ай бұрын

    I remember, knock on wood, I can say that I am a very good driver, because of these films in drivers Ed in my high school.

  • @trent3872

    @trent3872

    8 ай бұрын

    @@maryowens1872 We had classroom with the simulators first 6 weeks followed by driving on the road. The teacher would sit in the front right seat and 3 of us would swap out driving. Lol. Good memories.

  • @miapdx503
    @miapdx5038 ай бұрын

    When I was teaching my kids how to drive, I told them to assume that many drivers are impaired. Because they are. Defensive driving saves lives.

  • @meatpopsicle1567
    @meatpopsicle15678 ай бұрын

    All that carnage, and not a seat belt in sight for the next twenty years!

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    8 ай бұрын

    And the automakers fought like hell against it... Even Lee Iacocca resisted SRS for the Chrysler Corporation minivan products until the new designs came out. Got to have that profit... and trade-in incentive selling points...

  • @utjp7077
    @utjp70779 ай бұрын

    That was some crash ... it literally smacked that Cadillac into a Plymouth

  • @jimgriffin9924

    @jimgriffin9924

    8 ай бұрын

    and the Plymouth into something from the 1940s

  • @jimgriffin9924
    @jimgriffin99248 ай бұрын

    The wreck was so bad it completely changed the cars into older vehicles of different makes and models

  • @lebowskiduderino89
    @lebowskiduderino898 ай бұрын

    It turns out that one of the police chiefs was an early version of a robot. Try and guess which one!

  • @danielsmith5023
    @danielsmith50238 ай бұрын

    When I got my licence in outback Australia I was 16 . The Sergeant of police in Marburg QLD stood on the veranda with a cup of tea and said drive around the town for 10 minutes , nobody with me . When I got back He said , you didn't have a smash up , come get your licence young fella .

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    8 ай бұрын

    As a Yank who had to go through a lot of hoops to get there, I must say I admire the Outback and/or Walkabout way of doing things...Shout-out to the land of Michael Hutchins and INXS, the land of Malcom and Angus Young, the land of Footy...Oh What A Feeling!

  • @danielsmith5023

    @danielsmith5023

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Edward-bd8iy hahaha good on ya mate 👍. I have been a professional shooter culling Roos ferrel dogs and Razorbacks pigs for over 30 years . But I also lived in Glendale Arizona for 2 years back in the 90s , and loved it . I drove a truck doing brick deliveries out of Phoenix Arizona . I made a few mates and we use to ride our horses into Mexico every now and again . Great days . You have a good one mate and knock back a couple of tubes for me , I drink xxxx beer myself . It's a Brisbane brew , it's been around since 1888 .

  • @MattGuzman-ng2yx

    @MattGuzman-ng2yx

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@danielsmith5023 Stay Thirsty, Mateys! 🫡😉🍻👍

  • @danielsmith5023

    @danielsmith5023

    8 ай бұрын

    @@MattGuzman-ng2yx bloody oath , there's not enough beer in Queensland to douse my thirst on a hot dusty summers day mate 👍 I recon I have made a few publicans rich in my life .

  • @andypottschmidt696
    @andypottschmidt6969 ай бұрын

    I was wating for Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo to add additional commentary.

  • @P00katube

    @P00katube

    9 ай бұрын

    3:31 Mrs. Daniels: Do You Have The Child Support Payment You Owe Me? 3:39 Hey! That Was Great! I wish we could do it again!!!!

  • @paulzammataro7185

    @paulzammataro7185

    9 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @mitch4527

    @mitch4527

    9 ай бұрын

    Truth!

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    9 ай бұрын

    "Boy, that Mrs. Daniels is loaded for bear..."--Henry Blake

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    8 ай бұрын

    @andypottschmidt696The color commentary they did for the racing scene in that 'biker' flick(the sidecar racers) was legendary, as well as Servo's 'Ode To Creepy Girl'

  • @alterman156channel
    @alterman156channel8 ай бұрын

    Two things to point out here. The driver of the Cadillac was definitely driving while he was intoxicated. He simply abandoned all caution while he was driving in that state. The driver of the Plymouth was in a hurry and also abandoned caution. That was a recipe for a tragic accident that did not need to occur. It is important to driver carefully. This way you're much more likely to avoid an accident. Never drive when one's ability to drive is impaired by alcohol, drugs or a medical condition.

  • @damoshort76

    @damoshort76

    8 ай бұрын

    Thankyou for the sermon

  • @user-kf7nz6pz8l

    @user-kf7nz6pz8l

    8 ай бұрын

    So true. But the accident shown involved at least one totally different car. We can't really see anything but the bottom of the car on it's side. But the other car certainly isn't the '50 Cadillac Coupe DeVille driven by the drunkard. Instead it's a possibly 1950 Plymouth Coupe. So that's a poorly made film. At first I thought that guy at the desk on the left was a cardboard cutout.

  • @jimgriffin9924

    @jimgriffin9924

    8 ай бұрын

    @@user-kf7nz6pz8l at the end you can see the front of the overturned vehicle. It looks like it's from the 1940a. Clearly two junkers pulled from the scrapyard just to create a wreck without actually damaging any cars.

  • @user-kf7nz6pz8l

    @user-kf7nz6pz8l

    8 ай бұрын

    Pretty phony but at least they didn't wreck the Caddy cnvt. I might have seen it wrapped around a telephone pole in another video on '50s wrecked cars.@@jimgriffin9924

  • @michaelcarlos8686

    @michaelcarlos8686

    7 ай бұрын

    I see no evidence in this film the dude was drunk.😂

  • @Floridaredwing25
    @Floridaredwing259 ай бұрын

    Read them que cards buddy!

  • @rongreen8962
    @rongreen89627 ай бұрын

    Dallas and Tarrant Counties were building like crazy in the 1950’s, building some of the most deadly road designs in the world: wide lanes, clear zones, lots of driveways. But this film blames the bottle.

  • @rickhartman8679
    @rickhartman867910 ай бұрын

    Joe's Cadillac was pretty loaded up with accessories.(sun visor, rear Venetian blinds)

  • @arise2945

    @arise2945

    9 ай бұрын

    Continental kit, whip antenna...

  • @admiralcraddock464

    @admiralcraddock464

    9 ай бұрын

    And look at the way it rocked back and forth when in braked hard to a stop.

  • @deliveryguyrx

    @deliveryguyrx

    9 ай бұрын

    Joe was pretty loaded himself,lol.

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    9 ай бұрын

    Joe should have gone over to Larry Tate's place, he almost drank as much as Larry

  • @rickhartman8679

    @rickhartman8679

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Edward-bd8iy Larry could really set em back even at business lunches lol

  • @jenx5870
    @jenx587010 ай бұрын

    I am a bit creeped out that this was recommended to me right after I ran a barely red light in Grand Prairie. Our city street speeds here are like highway speeds. Hmmm.

  • @pegs1659

    @pegs1659

    8 ай бұрын

    Barely ran a red light? Is that like barely pregnant?

  • @TedBronson1918
    @TedBronson19188 ай бұрын

    I remember watching these kinds of films in school. I always thought the narration was as criminally negligent as many of the drivers the films demonstrated. Talk about wooden ! Couldn't they practice delivering their lines a few times ? Anyway, I'd say that they should show videos like this to school kids nowadays except they'd probably get sued for showing the kids the truth and traumatizing them.

  • @MikeLawson-cj4kt

    @MikeLawson-cj4kt

    8 ай бұрын

    The two at the desk sound like graduates of the Evelyn Woodhead Spedriddin' Course.

  • @TedBronson1918

    @TedBronson1918

    8 ай бұрын

    @@MikeLawson-cj4kt haha ! yep !

  • @fbksfrank4

    @fbksfrank4

    6 ай бұрын

    Don’t believe they’re onboard with this idea.

  • @TedBronson1918

    @TedBronson1918

    6 ай бұрын

    @@fbksfrank4 Actually, I bet they are. The thing is they weren't professional actors/narrators. Those cops didn't have the time to go through multiple takes, and they basically just read their lines off a script board and that was it - done.

  • @fbksfrank4

    @fbksfrank4

    6 ай бұрын

    @TedBronson1918 I was thinking about the media, I'm not sure they were behind it...of course they could have just gotten to work and then the boss man rolled in with a special project.

  • @headspace8338
    @headspace83388 ай бұрын

    Ahh..the meat wagon! No aid, just throw you in and hope you survive the trip! 😂

  • @andrefiset3569
    @andrefiset35699 ай бұрын

    Love the introducers.

  • @robertmann7277

    @robertmann7277

    9 ай бұрын

    Why he didn't get an Academy Award is beyond me!!!!

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    9 ай бұрын

    Love the scripts they had on the desk in front of them, your boy view left kept looking at it and then saying the line. Almost as good a delivery as "Atomic Cafe".

  • @patrickmcgrath5411
    @patrickmcgrath54119 ай бұрын

    WHAT A TERRIBLE WAY TO RUIN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CADILLAC 😢

  • @Floridaredwing25

    @Floridaredwing25

    9 ай бұрын

    Notice they never showed the Cadillac? Cost too much to wreck. Just some old junker on its side.

  • @MM3ScubaSteveUSN
    @MM3ScubaSteveUSN8 ай бұрын

    Pretty sad, indeed. Now, due to technology, we have ANOTHER wonderful driving distraction that didn't exist back then - Android and iPhones.

  • @mattwiggins-qt7iw
    @mattwiggins-qt7iw8 ай бұрын

    wow, cool classic cars. wonder what they would be worth today in mint condition.

  • @patrickmcgoldrick8234

    @patrickmcgoldrick8234

    8 ай бұрын

    I'm guessing a mint.

  • @alshotrodsandratrods8780

    @alshotrodsandratrods8780

    7 ай бұрын

    In mint condition the Cadillac would be $50K to $60K at auction. The 53 Plymouth isn't a popular car with collectors so it would be maybe $20K in good condition. (I have a 54 that I got for $3K) After the accident the Plymouth became a 1950 three window coupe. worth around $30K in good condition. The Cadillac became a 1939 Willys. I couldn't tell if it was a sedan or coupe. I don't have any idea what they are worth but the coupes are sought after for drag cars. The sedans are less valuable. After that horrific head on collision the Plymouth only had minor front end damage. The Willys had none.

  • @jw77019
    @jw770199 ай бұрын

    After the accident the drunk’s car went from a 1949 Cadillac to a 1929 something. Of course they wouldn’t crash a new-ish Cadillac.

  • @DrOlds7298

    @DrOlds7298

    9 ай бұрын

    Looks more like a 1951-52 Cadillac,then about a 1939-40 Buick? Plymouth was different,too? Went from a 1953-54 Cambridge to a 1951-52 Business Coupe.

  • @mickhacklin3799
    @mickhacklin37999 ай бұрын

    The ambulance guys covered the victim completely while he was still alive - he was still bleeding so he sure wasn’t dead yet !

  • @PartTimeLaowai

    @PartTimeLaowai

    9 ай бұрын

    Better to be safe than sorry

  • @MattGuzman-ng2yx

    @MattGuzman-ng2yx

    8 ай бұрын

    I thought he had JUST DIED... W/that blood running out of his mouth... 😮

  • @mickhacklin3799

    @mickhacklin3799

    8 ай бұрын

    @@MattGuzman-ng2yx When the blood is still running the heart is still pumping - when the heart stops the blood stops running. THEN he’s dead.

  • @jamesdarcy3902
    @jamesdarcy3902Ай бұрын

    This was the "golden age" of drink driving, no reliable breathalyzers until 1969 and alcohol limit of .15 which was hard to determine. It didn't start to significantly change until the late 80's when the body count got high enough.

  • @muffs55mercury61
    @muffs55mercury619 ай бұрын

    Newest cars I see are 1953, maybe 1954 models. His Cadillac is a '52. Joe really had a serious problem. I've rarely head of someone drinking heavily early in the morning like that. No way did that Plymouth stand a chance in a head on with that 4400 pound Cadillac. Today of course Grand Prairie is overpopulated with 180,000 people.

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    9 ай бұрын

    I used to drink that early... and almost as much. Wild Turkey 101. Fortunately, the LORD took that desire away from me 27 years ago.

  • @MattGuzman-ng2yx

    @MattGuzman-ng2yx

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@Edward-bd8iy It's been 12 since He's done that for me! 📵👍✝️

  • @Edward-bd8iy

    @Edward-bd8iy

    8 ай бұрын

    @@MattGuzman-ng2yx ...and you've done more actual LIVING in the past 12 years than you did all that time before, right? Jesus Christ really does give new life!

  • @jimgriffin9924

    @jimgriffin9924

    8 ай бұрын

    1955 Fords on the car carrier in downtown. Those were the newest. you have to look quick to see them

  • @yourroyalhighness7662
    @yourroyalhighness76628 ай бұрын

    Reminds me of an old instructional film entitled “Smegma on the Dashboard” or something close to that. Ah, those were the days….

  • @02chevyguy

    @02chevyguy

    7 ай бұрын

    😆😁

  • @boataxe4605
    @boataxe46058 ай бұрын

    Homer Simpson - “ It’s funny cause I don’t know him”.

  • @3ppcli
    @3ppcli8 ай бұрын

    2 rules I've had since i received my drivers license 50 years ago. 1) trust no one. 2) expect anything.

  • @eutimiochavez415
    @eutimiochavez4158 ай бұрын

    U didn’t even have to lock ur car back then !

  • @jordancoleman2402
    @jordancoleman24026 ай бұрын

    The guys the beginning 😅 couldn't remember 8 lines and how he looked at every word before he said it 😅😅😅😅😅

  • @christophersanders5007
    @christophersanders50078 ай бұрын

    This film was nothing compared to the old 1950's drivers ed films they used to show us in high school. When I was in high school all the muscle cars from the late 60's and early 70's where being sold off by the original owners as used cars, so there a lot of kids that had really fast cars in those days.

  • @msweaver61

    @msweaver61

    8 ай бұрын

    Those cars were also steel

  • @andrerodriguez7603
    @andrerodriguez76037 ай бұрын

    No wonder those cars had good bumpers back than. Being a stick shift, he popped the clutch leaving the motel, and banged the car in front of him. 😅

  • @michaelleamon2714
    @michaelleamon27148 ай бұрын

    Its amazing how many vehicles back then had BALD tires !!! 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚓🚓🚓🚓

  • @clazza65
    @clazza657 ай бұрын

    2023. People still having crashes and bots presenting it.

  • @user-xr2vl1vq2i
    @user-xr2vl1vq2i7 ай бұрын

    Todays cars wouldn’t stand a fighting chance to those metallic beasts of yesteryear..no competition whatsoever.

  • @johnnycash578
    @johnnycash57814 күн бұрын

    by the time they find a pencil and paper write down the plate and get to a pay phone the guy has already bought and sold the car for a newer one and has two kids lol

  • @stevemartin6144
    @stevemartin61443 күн бұрын

    Was the narrator at the beginning a gas station attendant, the breadman or the diaper service guy? Perhaps that good Samaritan truck driver?

  • @b.wiggins714
    @b.wiggins7147 ай бұрын

    All the fire dept guys were smiling as they carried the kid out on the stretcher - trying to act as if this whole thing was real. 😂

  • @stevenkovler5133
    @stevenkovler51337 ай бұрын

    Kid in the front seat ! No Seat Belt … boy where we stupid back then !

  • @darrylturner2611
    @darrylturner26117 ай бұрын

    No mirrors on the cars? I knew they were doomed!!

  • @eutimiochavez415
    @eutimiochavez4158 ай бұрын

    We watch these movies I. The 50s

  • @occultustactical6138
    @occultustactical61387 ай бұрын

    My dad had a 59 Chevy. During the summer he'd take all of the local neighbor kids to the dairy queen. I would stand on the front seat as a 4 year old. I'm not sure they even had seatbelts??

  • @oldmandan3758

    @oldmandan3758

    Ай бұрын

    They didn't. My first car was a '54 Chevy 4 door. I bought it as a teenager in 1975. No seat belts. I wish I had that car now.

  • @jamesdarcy3902

    @jamesdarcy3902

    Ай бұрын

    There is a crash test on KZread, 1959 Chev Belair vs a 2009 Chef Malibu..........

  • @theresaroda
    @theresaroda8 ай бұрын

    I love the naration at the begining and end. 😂 It was obvious these were real peolpe and not actors.

  • @yourroyalhighness7662
    @yourroyalhighness76628 ай бұрын

    Words fail me.

  • @lebowskiduderino89
    @lebowskiduderino898 ай бұрын

    Also, how would you like to be on diaper detail?

  • @paintnamer6403
    @paintnamer64039 ай бұрын

    Uvalde Const Co. Dallas @6:58

  • @DrOlds7298

    @DrOlds7298

    9 ай бұрын

    Also Texas Bitulithic,now part of Austin Paving & Construction,and Temco Aircraft,which was later part of Ling-Temco-Vaught,then Chance-Vaught,then General Dynamics,then Martin-Marietta....which for many years was about the biggest employer in Grand Prairie?

  • @paulzammataro7185
    @paulzammataro71859 ай бұрын

    No side view mirrors? 😮

  • @jimgriffin9924

    @jimgriffin9924

    8 ай бұрын

    optional back then. And only on the driver's side unless you really paid extra.

  • @aurynaichi7030
    @aurynaichi70308 ай бұрын

    Nice typical re-creation film for educational purposes.

  • @johnfitzgerald2339
    @johnfitzgerald23399 ай бұрын

    @ 11:48 I think that guy is blinking "T-O-U-R-T-U-R-E" in morse-code.

  • @e28forever30

    @e28forever30

    8 ай бұрын

    If he’s illiterate, yes.

  • @stevemartin6144

    @stevemartin6144

    3 күн бұрын

    @@e28forever30 Ha! Priceless comment! Well done!

  • @foxtrotwhiskey874
    @foxtrotwhiskey8749 ай бұрын

    any one know where in Dallas this is?

  • @gphotx

    @gphotx

    9 ай бұрын

    It looks like it was in multiple locations. One shot of the Tower Hotel Courts was at 10108 Harry Hines. bigberthasadventures.com/2020/12/13/tower-hotel-courts-on-harry-hines-in-dallas-texas-part-1/ Grand Prairie State Bank was on Main st. in Grand Prairie. And it was an Irving Fire Truck at the scene.

  • @foxtrotwhiskey874

    @foxtrotwhiskey874

    9 ай бұрын

    @@gphotx thank you.

  • @markward6076

    @markward6076

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes on the western outskirts of Dallas between Dallas and Fort Worth Texas.

  • @DrOlds7298

    @DrOlds7298

    9 ай бұрын

    Wreck looks as if was filmed on the west side of Irving,somewhere around Belt Line Road,or southeast Irving on what is now MacArthur Blvd. Both locations on the southern end are near the Grand Prairie city limits which means at the time both cities might've 'rolled' on it per Mutual Aid.

  • @drpoundsign
    @drpoundsign9 ай бұрын

    Uvalde was Always Cursed!

  • @The1trueking1966

    @The1trueking1966

    2 ай бұрын

    Why?

  • @chrisdaigle3588
    @chrisdaigle35887 ай бұрын

    OHHH jeez, they still can't read a script, like the films in school......two pictures.....BING......two pictures........BING........

  • @tommyplays131
    @tommyplays1314 ай бұрын

    Its fake

  • @The1trueking1966

    @The1trueking1966

    2 ай бұрын

    Prove it

  • @genesauter4755
    @genesauter47559 ай бұрын

    So its a bit old 🤔 reuse them in drivers ed to show what will happen to bad they don't offer drivers ed any more