I was a huge fan of Grizzly Tales for greuesome kids on Citv as a kid so I really liked these adverts as they taught children the consequences of their errors and did it in a matter of fact blunt way.
@@pikachuhutch234 It's important to remember not all kids are the same. Every child is going to have their own personal interests, taste in entertainment and levels of courage. Some children, believe it or not, genuinely love the adrenaline of being scared. Why d'you think Goosebumps is a hit with kids?
Did anyone else have like a work booklet based on these adverts in like year 4? Having to write about road safety with these kids staring at you was terrifying
These ads were responsible for so many nightmares. I'm convinced they're the reason why i still stop look & listen even when the roads are completely empty. IDK if schools still show these or not, but they 100% should be.
I remember watching these when I was in Year 3 (Yes I am British) and they were terrifying, the one with The Light Vest is the one I remember the most and is why I almost never go out at Night fearing I’d become what happened to the Girl
I remember having Think! come into school and I was thinking " yeah ! Last time they gave us hedgehog keyrings, i love Think! " And then they show us these and give us little booklets about dead children, genuinely traumatic
And i have a reason why the boi aint dead Ghosts have NO medic stuff (unless is like a wheelchair and they die in it ) ghosts with that type of injuries just deal with them
I remember seeing these when I was a kid. I used to light heartedly think that these kids were only severely injured; only now, watching these 16 years later as a man do I realise how truly dark these are, with the idea that these kids sadly snuffed it in the accidents that we're seeing in these videos.
I think this advert terrified alot of kids but was very effective. It's the advert where the car rolls over the kids that still torments me and the breaking bone sounds. Saved a hell of a lot of kids from getting ran over though.
Anyone’s teacher let them play the game for this? You had to put the words “stop look and listen” into a slot machine and if you got it wrong some car would rocket into a kid and you had to get the furthest
These ads used to absolutely scare the shit out of me as a kid. Not really because I was scared of being hit by a car, since I was pretty well educated on road safety and never went anywhere without my parents anyway, but because I was terrified of the bleak palette of the ads and the creepy Burton-esque designs of the kids.
i remember seeing these ads on tv when i was like 7, they always played at around autum and i would always change the channel when they came on cuz id become scared as hell
I remember seeing this advert on the TV when I was 8 and had my vacation on London with my mom and brothers. I was so traumatized thinking that I had to watch something like that before going to bed.
these adverts fucking traumatised me. they showed these to us when they'd just come out (i think i was in year 1 but im not sure) and i used to have nightmares about the children in them. they instilled this fear into me about roads that i still have now as an 18 year old girl, coming up 19. honestly idk if these adverts helped me in the long term, bc they didnt teach me to be responsible around roads - they taught me to be afraid of them. as another comment said - i much prefer the hedgehog approach.
Not to mention the ableism in this advert just because someone has a temporary or permanent disability doesn’t mean they can’t have fun with other kids which this video implys
@@GarnachoEmpire712 this is such a good point, and it connects to a wider point of ableism in psas - a lot of them use disability as a scare or imply that being disabled is the worst thing ever when it's really not!
they made us watch this at school, then we had to play the game, then go home and do the homework about it, then while you were watching cartoons it would pop up again during the adverts...
I was 7 when this came out. I’m 22 now and still think about it occasionally. Scarred my brain. I do remember a game someone made as a parody, you had to try launch the boy with a car and get him as far as possible. It was pretty messed up
so glad i was 14 when these came out so i grew up with the hedghogs, the second and third one were horific . i completly forgot how bad they were. i think i kind of blocked them out. i never forgot the hedghogs though. probably helped that in primary school we were given reflective hedgehog stuff to wear.. the firework safety videos always scared me though, still do. i have been very scared of fireworks, including sparklers (i think it started with being scared of sparklers) since a young age, we now know i am autistic and i developed ptsd which did not help. i have never stopped watching kids tv (yes im 28 but i still love kids tv) and thinking about it this is the last road safety video i saw. i hope there is still road safty stuff in schools but i still live in the same street as my old primary school and i was in school the last time i saw a kid with a reflector
These would play when the afternoons would start to get dark and it was close to Halloween and they were so freaky. I was about 8. Afterwards trapped on cbbc would play and the whole vibe was just spoooky 😂
These ads never taught me about road safety, I was to scared by the thought of the kids being dead (yeah Ik, I never realised they were alive) and thought they were ghosts watching other kids playing. Shit scared me as a 6 year old
This still scares me to this day I can drive and I still am scared of this happening but I am happy I learn this from a ad as this could be so much worse
These traumatised me as a kid I swear. I was so scared of cars man
well i guess they were effective then
When will Think! Suspend operations of their companies.
@@pikachuhutch234 shut up and get back in your pokeball
These were the adverts that made us say our final goodbyes to the hedgehogs…
Still have this fear of cars and I’m 20 now 😭😭
My sister found these adverts so distressing that she was afraid to go to the cinema in case one of the adverts turned out to be one of these shorts.
this was literally what i did when i was younger i was shown these when i was 4 and hated seeing them in the cinema
I saw it before toy story 3 and was scared
I watched this is year 3 or 2 this shit was terrifying
We done it in year 2 it was traumatising.
Same I watched it for school
Omg same it still scares me
@@garymerrett4171same I'm still scared of this
SAME
I was a huge fan of Grizzly Tales for greuesome kids on Citv as a kid so I really liked these adverts as they taught children the consequences of their errors and did it in a matter of fact blunt way.
Aaron brown why are happy at something so horrifying. Seriously did your parents think this was a good idea?
@@pikachuhutch234 You could argue that being scared has its benefits (like an adrenaline rush).
@@worthybutter2004 Or a Cigarette.
@@pikachuhutch234 It's important to remember not all kids are the same. Every child is going to have their own personal interests, taste in entertainment and levels of courage. Some children, believe it or not, genuinely love the adrenaline of being scared. Why d'you think Goosebumps is a hit with kids?
@@worthybutter2004 For that Slappy Puppet.
Did anyone else have like a work booklet based on these adverts in like year 4? Having to write about road safety with these kids staring at you was terrifying
yes yes yes!
@@OfficialRoses OMG REALLY? I kinda thought they were some weird fever dream I made up glad to know they were real 😂
Yeah, though sometimes I wonder how real that memory was.
i just drew in mine haha
Yes I remember
These are clever but I prefer the hedgehog approach.
What's that?
@@tombstonerforever9374 theres a hedgehog that sings staying alive
Definitely better than the governments newest scheme of screw it lets do it hope the cars stop
These ads were responsible for so many nightmares. I'm convinced they're the reason why i still stop look & listen even when the roads are completely empty. IDK if schools still show these or not, but they 100% should be.
Props to the creators of this, it has always stuck in my mind and I always check multiple times while crossing
Thanks primary school for the trauma
Yep thanks!
These did their job, even as an adult some of these slogans cross my mind when I think about crossing the road. I forget they even came from here
I remember watching these when I was in Year 3 (Yes I am British) and they were terrifying, the one with The Light Vest is the one I remember the most and is why I almost never go out at Night fearing I’d become what happened to the Girl
I remember right when these came in. One weekend I'm enjoying the happy tune of hedgehogs singing about road safety and then next day depression
These frightened me so badly, I became too scared to even turn on the TV for fear of them airing.
Man I'm 22 now and these still freak me out
As dark as this was, I admire how THINK! handled this with that Road Safety isn't a joke.
swear down i didn’t cross roads without my mam for literal years after i saw this ad for the first time 😭
I remember having Think! come into school and I was thinking " yeah ! Last time they gave us hedgehog keyrings, i love Think! "
And then they show us these and give us little booklets about dead children, genuinely traumatic
Do you still have the keyrings?
I love these adverts - so dark. Are they all dead? Ghosts forever looking back on their mistakes... Like Grave of the Fireflies (1988).
Nope they are just depressed they cant do what they want
well in the girl they said corpse, so she's the only one dead...
Ye
And i have a reason why the boi aint dead Ghosts have NO medic stuff (unless is like a wheelchair and they die in it ) ghosts with that type of injuries just deal with them
Honestly these ads were terrifying but I’m so glad they showed us them because this is such an important message
To be fair I used to think this was sort of creepy as a kid but it's definitely very mild compared to the PSAs from the 70s and 80s lmao
But the 70s had Charly Says!
I remember seeing these when I was a kid. I used to light heartedly think that these kids were only severely injured; only now, watching these 16 years later as a man do I realise how truly dark these are, with the idea that these kids sadly snuffed it in the accidents that we're seeing in these videos.
I was in year 1 or 2 when this out, this traumatised my class. So many memories remembered
I GREW UP ON THESE IVE BEEN LOOKIBG FOR THEM FOREVER
Same
SAME
Samme
Same
I think this advert terrified alot of kids but was very effective.
It's the advert where the car rolls over the kids that still torments me and the breaking bone sounds. Saved a hell of a lot of kids from getting ran over though.
Anyone’s teacher let them play the game for this? You had to put the words “stop look and listen” into a slot machine and if you got it wrong some car would rocket into a kid and you had to get the furthest
omg yes what was it called
holy shit yes , I’ve been looking for this for weeks
@@The_Doctor_Goose i still can’t find it :( i think i did at one point but it was gone from the website
@@ruby-annette that's what I was thinking, I found screenshots of the games and links to them but I guess they've taken it down nowadays
@@The_Doctor_Goose I found the game and I've got it up and running. I found it on the wayback machine.
Screw these ads dude, gave me so many nightmares
My friend told me he had to watch these in school, I wish I had his teachers, I'd like to be traumatized by tiny children getting hit by cars
lmao we watched these at my school in year two and we played the minigames 😂😭
You really dont lmao. When i was nine i would close my eyes and see their faces and it was c r e e p y a f
this is a certified hood classic
These ads used to absolutely scare the shit out of me as a kid. Not really because I was scared of being hit by a car, since I was pretty well educated on road safety and never went anywhere without my parents anyway, but because I was terrified of the bleak palette of the ads and the creepy Burton-esque designs of the kids.
I remember these adverts I never really understood them back when I was two years old but now looking back at them I now understand what they were for
I love how it rhymes
Yeah that's right kids, after a kid you know gets injured, don't befriend or hang out with them, let them wallow in their regrets!
wow I remember this as a kid used to creep me out so much back in the day
Its been more than a decade and I just realised they rhyme, was too busy crying my eyes out when first seeing them to notice that
Teachers in my school had to comfort kids crying after being shown these in assembly. Scary but definitely effective
Why tf did we have to watch these as kids
Scary as they were we had to learn how important it was to make sure we were very careful when crossing the road
i remember seeing these ads on tv when i was like 7, they always played at around autum and i would always change the channel when they came on cuz id become scared as hell
I remember seeing this advert on the TV when I was 8 and had my vacation on London with my mom and brothers. I was so traumatized thinking that I had to watch something like that before going to bed.
This shit scarred me as a 5 year old, now I outright refuse to cross at bends
these adverts fucking traumatised me. they showed these to us when they'd just come out (i think i was in year 1 but im not sure) and i used to have nightmares about the children in them. they instilled this fear into me about roads that i still have now as an 18 year old girl, coming up 19.
honestly idk if these adverts helped me in the long term, bc they didnt teach me to be responsible around roads - they taught me to be afraid of them. as another comment said - i much prefer the hedgehog approach.
Not to mention the ableism in this advert just because someone has a temporary or permanent disability doesn’t mean they can’t have fun with other kids which this video implys
@@GarnachoEmpire712 this is such a good point, and it connects to a wider point of ableism in psas - a lot of them use disability as a scare or imply that being disabled is the worst thing ever when it's really not!
@@GarnachoEmpire712 bro how pc are you, this is not ableism, the kids got hit by a car of course they can't have fun with broken bones etc.
You can never have fun with a broken leg. It's British Law!
this was shown to me in year 2 and i went home crying that i never wanted to cross a road again
they made us watch this at school, then we had to play the game, then go home and do the homework about it, then while you were watching cartoons it would pop up again during the adverts...
These genuinely entertain me.
Why would you say that the car "drove into her guts"? Why would you do that?
showed us this in year 5 this is fucking terrifying
i was in yr 3 😭
i was in year 2💀
I WATCHED THIS IN RECEPTION AND IM 20 NOW THIS WAS TERRIFYING
i was in reception watching this. shit was traumatising 😭
I watched this is yr 3 and was fine I’m now 14 and finding this shit terrifying
I hope they heal soon
So we can all agree that this shit was traumatic to watch but got the point through
YES
I was 7 when this came out. I’m 22 now and still think about it occasionally. Scarred my brain. I do remember a game someone made as a parody, you had to try launch the boy with a car and get him as far as possible. It was pretty messed up
I remember these posters I was terrified as a child😭
I SAW THIS ONE IN ASSEMBLY ONCE
anyone else remember the different minigames they made out of these adverts?
I saw them adverts before toy story 3 and I was bloody terrified 😭
This used to scare the shit out of me
Who remembers watching the hedgehog videos on road safety 😂
These ones scared me as a kid 😂
Thanks for the 13 year long recurring nightmare
I watched this in primary school and it petrified me bro 😭
okay but the girl couldn't help it, if u saw what she was wearing it looked like a school uniform so technically itsnot her fault .
These ads genuinely traumatised me and I’ve been trying to find them for years
why did they make it so unsettling, then choose to show it kids 😂😂😂
I was 4 when this first aired and I had nightmares for ages. Now its time for my brother to watch this
Tim Burton-esque to the core.
I actually remember seeing this on TV
Remember, it is always the child’s fault. Never the person guiding a ton of steel through a public space. Always the child’s fault.
Bruv when these adverts used to come on the tele I used to run out the room when I was little😂
i could batter them all in a fight
Run em over
Lol
Well yeah, they're already halfway dead
We had these posters in school and i felt aweful about them
THINK! Ignorance kills! ⚠️
Unsettling isn't even the word...
NOSTALGIAAAAA
I was 6 or 7 when I seen those adverts but I thought there was more but I may be thinking wrong
I remember there being more too.
There was a game we also played at school
so glad i was 14 when these came out so i grew up with the hedghogs, the second and third one were horific . i completly forgot how bad they were. i think i kind of blocked them out. i never forgot the hedghogs though. probably helped that in primary school we were given reflective hedgehog stuff to wear.. the firework safety videos always scared me though, still do. i have been very scared of fireworks, including sparklers (i think it started with being scared of sparklers) since a young age, we now know i am autistic and i developed ptsd which did not help. i have never stopped watching kids tv (yes im 28 but i still love kids tv) and thinking about it this is the last road safety video i saw. i hope there is still road safty stuff in schools but i still live in the same street as my old primary school and i was in school the last time i saw a kid with a reflector
All 3 of them were horrific
This ad traumatized the shit out of me as a kid, I wasn’t scared of cars, but of their lifeless eyes
Im never sleeping
These gave me lasting nighmares-
I still get them, i see their stupid faces every damn week
why is this for my school work??
What happened to make them go from look at the funny hedgehog crossing the road safely to YOUR GONNA F***ING SUFFER CHILD
this traumatised me when i watched this w the class in year 3 holy
Whoever thought of these deserves a raise.
this was shown in an assembly when i was around 7 yrs old and i cried.
I’m in year 5 and they showed us this video and I was traumatised💀
As a kid I was not sacred of these ads but as a adult now oh boy it dark as f.
I feek so bad for then ik there onky cartoons but in yr 3 i was so scared
These would play when the afternoons would start to get dark and it was close to Halloween and they were so freaky. I was about 8. Afterwards trapped on cbbc would play and the whole vibe was just spoooky 😂
nah im going back to the hedgehogs
I was forced to watch this in class when I was like 5 I was traumatised
They showed this to me in school
My teacher played this advert in nursery…I had nightmares for months
This traumatized me
this HAUNTS ME
I remember this but its not a clear memory I just remember seeing it
These ads never taught me about road safety, I was to scared by the thought of the kids being dead (yeah Ik, I never realised they were alive) and thought they were ghosts watching other kids playing. Shit scared me as a 6 year old
This still scares me to this day I can drive and I still am scared of this happening but I am happy I learn this from a ad as this could be so much worse
Watched this in like year 1 or 2 and it really scared me. But i suppose that’s why it was effective. It scared kids into being careful around roads.
This gave me PTSD bruh
these actually petrified me as a child
I remember watching this as a kid and being traumatised-