American reacts to Australia TAC ads (20 years)
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I loved the ad that asked the bloke "what was an acceptable number of deaths on the road" and then they had THAT number of HIS family walk out. The ACCEPTABLE number suddenly changed when represented by loved ones. That was a good ad. 😢
Life isnt meant to be safe
The correct number is zero.
@@mickvonbornemann3824 Oughtn't we strive to be safe though? Yes, in this intrinsically unsafe existence, safety is not and can not be guaranteed. Though I do appreciate that as a society, most of us endeavour to comply with the social contracts, thus letting many more of us survive (especially on Highways . . and me on my motorbike 🏍).
Best road safety ad ever.
@@mickvonbornemann3824 people aren't meant to die on the road.
My husband was on his bike and only doing 40 km p.h. when someone cut in front of him and caused him to fall. He slid on his front for about 5 metres. He was wearing helmet, shorts, steel cap boots, armoured gloves and an armoured jacket. He tore up the jacket and shredded his boots and gloves but they protected him and he only ended up with a sprained wrist and some minor grazes. The toes of his boots kept his legs relatively safe, but only by luck. He learned his lesson and has never again ridden without leg protection. He either wears leather pants or armoured jeans.
This! I’m glad your husband was relatively uninjured!
Very glad he is ok, and good on him for taking his riding gear seriously.
I've seen a lot of hospital patients after they've come off a motorbike, and the difference in their injuries is astounding based on what they were wearing.
I have to really restrain myself these days when I see people riding around in a t-shirt and shorts.
Those armoured bike jackets and gloves are amazing, 2 words that should never be said together are bike and accident, glad he was o.k.
@@mikelonghurst1107 I love the helmets without the chin guard and people who wear thongs. Basically death wish or seriously maimed for life. I feel sorry for how hot the correct gear is but safety is far more important
They make gear with Kevlar, don't they? Also, I'm glad your man is alright 😊
Long time Aussie motorcyclist here (40+ years of riding). The proper gear is as follows:
Full leathers, i.e. leather pants and jacket _specifically designed for motorcycling;_
Proper reinforced steel-capped motorcycle boots;
Sturdy, well-padded gauntlets, and of course;
A good quality full-face helmet _with the chin strap fastened._ That strap is there for a very good reason.
Now - the WRONG gear: Old jeans or shorts, cheap and flimsy running shoes, and a tee-shirt leaving you bare-armed. When I see people riding like that - and I do - I shudder. I've seen what severe road-rash does to human flesh - skin scoured away to reveal raw meat, or even bone. You really don't want that...
There's a saying in biking circles: Dress for the slide, not for the ride. You may feel warm in the summer, but it's better to have sweat come out of you instead of blood.
Seeing a guy with tank top, shorts & thongs (flip-flops) on a bike makes me shudder, & I'm not even a rider. But hey, at least they have a helmet. 🤷😵🚑
@@jasonh.8754 Yep. It's funny how they seem to think that a helmet will protect their entire body somehow 🙄
Proper gear does not necessarily mean full leathers. I've known a number of guys who wouldn't wear gear because it is too hot in summer, so ride in T-shirt and shorts. Not me, I survived a slide in Kevlar Jeans and light weight summer jacket, leather motorcycle boots and leather gloves, helmet of course. Only minor grazes and a bruised knee . The Kevlar Jeans and jacket did a great job of holding together, not even torn. Replaced all gear anyway.
The point I'm trying to make is if it's too hot and that is what is holding you back from riding in proper protective gear then get more suitable gear. There is never an excuse not to
My best friend was just driving along normally through the suburbs doing the speed limit (50kms an hour in residential suburbs) when a three year old ran out in front of him. Despite slamming on the brakes he hit the little kid who had escaped his house and ran out on the road... the results were abhorrent and the little guy is now a vegetable, can't walk talk or communicate. My best friend refuses to drive now, he doesn't have a licence and takes public transport... and when we drink together he always cries, he just can't get over the images he saw in that moment. It has honestly destroyed his life, and he was doing everything by the law at the time...breaks my heart to see him suffer for the rest of his life for something he literally had no control over. :(
poor guy! That's what makes these ads so powerful, they're real! They show the long term consequences of road accidents. Shame it's not possible to have laws that stop all accidents, I'm betting your friend would have followed them if we had them & not be in the position he's in now. How terrible for him, doing everything right, but still feeling like he did everything wrong & whole life now of "what if?"
Everyones' nightmare. Poor guy.
@@mehere8038 he has 2 little babies...crushes his heart how things turned out. I cry with him, he's literally the kindest soul... :(
My sister had a kid run out of school and bounce off the side of her car. Fortunately no injuries, but they gave sis a nice cup of tea.
@@manna6618 poor guy, I can't even imagine what it would be like for him. Has he had his babies since the incident, or did he have them when it happened? I'm not sure which would be worse, if having at the time, it would be impossible to think of anything but his own kids experiencing that I would think & just horrible, if having since, I guess that's a good sign that he's managing to continue with some sort of life, but I can't even imagine the guilt & distress looking at his own perfect children & knowing what happened to the child he hit. Not his fault, but that doesn't make it feel ok, does it.
I'm glad he has you to cry with, that's probably a really bit thing in coping with something like that, having someone willing to listen & just be there & respect his feelings & need to let it all out
Australian road safety ads can be quite graphic, and we have some of the strictest road rules in the world, but that’s about keeping people safe.
Some people don't approve of the graphic ads. I say, they should keep them like that. Some people need the reminder of what a car accident really looks like. I can say for sure that those ads stuck with me even years later.
Much better see a constructed example of what can go wrong if you're careless, than to be careless and witness it firsthand.
With the way many Australians behave on the roads, we need them.
It's a big country
Life isn’t meant to be safe.
Ryan, if these ads have had a positive impact on you through their shock value, they have done their job.
The ads do nothing to cut the death toll. And if you’re too stupid to see that then so be it. It’s revenue and control
I was going add to this. Crap
@@phase3ute
You don’t know that. 🤷 These ads might help save someone’s life. No matter how edgy and cool you think it is to be a keyboard rebel.
@@phase3uteif you're too stupid to drink and drive... live (or die) with the consequences.
@@phase3utethe time period these ads were from were designed to make you aware of the consequences of these actions through the shock and awe they have. The ads were not meant to reduce the death toll directly but shock drivers that drive that way into being more aware of what can and most likely will happen if they continue to
Your reaction to these ads are exactly what they’re intended to do. Shock, and “oh hell i’m gonna be careful from now on. 😳”
Yes Australia has stricter road rules.
Enforced speed limits, Compulsory wearing of a helmet, Compulsory wearing of seatbelts,
Not being able to touch your phone,
Random alcohol & drug testing,
And that’s not counting the laws regarding babies & children (car seats, booster seats & front seat)
I’m so proud that we take the safety of EVERYONE seriously!
And in relation to what he said about holidays being crazy, double demerit points during every holiday, so drive 10km over the speed limit with you & a passenger not wearing seat belts & you lose your licence.
Our fines are hundreds to thousands of dollars too
In Victoria we do not have double demerit points on certain holidays. Maybe we should. @@mehere8038
@mehere8038 especially in south Australia fines can be brutal
@@Gypsycat19 what are the fines there?
Worst one in NSW is using someone else's disabled parking permit to park in a disabled parking space, that's a $1,100 fine (2 part fine, first for using another person's permit & then permit is confiscated & then you are fined for parking in a disabled space without a permit) 1 demerit point too, so as to target the BMW drivers who don't give a dam about how much it costs to park in the most convenient place
1986 nurse walked me out to the car with new born !!! no rules no seatbelts, hasn't always been so strick and crowded
Comparisons are always easier to make when it is done per 100,000. Road fatalities in Australia,5.3 per 100,000, in the US, 12.6 per 100,000.
Fark 😮
On what timeline though?
Per day, week, year?
In the case of this statistic, annually.
Thankyou lol
Also impossible to get run over if you’re in the cbd where the average car speed is almost walking speed lol
@@gaeshows1938 Tell that to the dead and injured, Bourke Street victims.
The most thought provoking one was the “how many deaths in road accidents would you say is acceptable?” One where the guy answers like 100 or something and the interviewer calls out 100 people and they’re all his extended family and the interviewer is like “this is what 100 people looks like”
"70 maybe?"
0 is the only acceptable answer for that question. How can you put a price on human life?
This one always fucks me up (working as intended)
@@Centarion64 You know we cease to evolve as a species if all children reach breeding age - IOW life isn’t meant to be safe. Besides there’s already too many people
That hit home to me too.
We had an iconic slogan coined by the TAC from the late 80's. A very deep, husky voice saying: *"If you drink, then drive... you're a bloody idiot"*
Then there was another almost as iconic one in the 90s. That same deep, husky voice saying: *"Don't fool yourself... speed kills"*
Of course, it didn't take long for the sketch comedy and satire shows of the day to edit these two together and roast their targets of ridicule with: *"Don't fool yourself... you're a bloody idiot"*
I was just a little fella and quoting the "bloody idiot" ad was a cheeky way to get away with swearing 😂
I was born in 88. I was still saying in the 90s coz I remember they brought it back because it was the most know accident slogan in Australia. And they stickers and it was on the radio. They would use it on TV shows occasionally quoting it as a joke but at the same time being serious. That's how big it became
In 1970 the state of Victoria had a campaign run by our Herald-Sun newspaper “Declare War on 1034” which was the number of deaths on Victoria’s states roads for the year alone, this was 53 years ago so if you compare that number to the 2021 number of a similar amount for the whole of Australia as you pointed out and if you multiply the number of vehicles on Australia’s roads probably 400 percent and with the millions added to our population since 1970 the current number has dramatically dropped, the 1034 lives lost on our states roads in 1970 spurred our state government to bring in a law to make the wearing of seat belts mandatory and as a matter of fact Victoria was the first place in the Western World to legislate for this! Also the advent of Random Breath testing and other measures all have had quite a significant impact of reducing the country’s road toll, as per motorcyclists safety clothing we have mandatory crash helmets since the 1950’s in Victoria and as far as clothing goes Kevlar reinforced jeans and jackets play a big part in survivability and as per myself I will not get on my motorcycle and ride irrespective of the weather without boots, jacket and gloves at the very least, I cannot believe that as you say some motorcyclists in the US don’t wear a helmet! well to me that is insane I mean how much do you value your life? I do see younger idiots here in summer time just wearing a helmet but with shorts a T shirt and sneakers or thongs on, I always cringe when I see this as my wife being a nurse has told me some horror stories with the maiming of many a motorcyclist when she worked in hospitals E R department
The 70’s is when Victoria rolled out the ‘Lucky Phil’ drink driving ads.
Not Herald-Sun, was the Sun News Pictorial.
Don't try be be vain and wear an open face helmet. I've seen what it looks like when people use their face as brakes on bitumen leaving their face hanging off their chin.
Victoria was the first in the world to mandate helmets for pushbikes too I think
@@basilpunton5702well wacko the diddo mate!
I still remember the "Greg! The stop sign!" ad - and the brilliant TISM song that it inspired
The true word out on the streets is produced by the TAC
This is the comment I was looking for
Hey Ryan. The TAC is a 'no-fault' insurance scheme owned by the Victorian Government. This means if you are injured in a transport accident in Victoria you can make a TAC claim to help pay for the treatment and support you need, even if the accident was your fault.
TAC also covers 80% of your wages whie you are off work due to a road accident ...
My cousin was badly injured in a hit and run ... she lived in the country but had to go to a city hospital ... TAC even paid for her mother to stay in a hotel to be with her while she was being treated!!
TAC = Traffic Accident Commision
TAC = Transport Accident Commission
My husband worked in civilian service at a German ER when an injured motorcyclist was brought in. He wore just jeans when the accident happend and it was completely gone on parts of his legs. Also the skin and part of the flesh down to the bone.
At the edges of the wounds the jeans fabric was melted into the skin due to the heat from the friction on the road.
Motorcyclist should always wear special leather clothes to prevent injuries like that.
Chain mesh jeans are for this
ouch! Another comment btw mentioned that in Australia at least, there is apparently now kevlar incorporated denim as a protective clothing option
It doesn’t always have to be leather. I always wear Kevlar and synthetic armour, which - touch wood - has yet to be used in an accident but I’ll never ride without it.
Leathers are outdated. Still better than jeans, but goddamn the Kevlar stuff is expensive. I've spent about 2 grand on my protective gear and I still ride wearing leather pants that an old bike mate lent me because the Kevlar get is so bloody pricey. You're looking at 300-500 bucks for a pair of pants, it's bloody ridiculous.
Wow-My then boyfriend & I wore shorts & t-shirts in Alice Springs in 1982. We were 17 & 21.
"Graham" is a piece of artwork by artis Patricia Piccinini. Her artwork is based around "mutations" as a result of problematic social norms and culture, it represents concerns surrounding bio-ethics and helps visualize future dystopias. I remember seeing her work on display at my local art gallery when I was about 13, it really stuck with me.
Project Graham is a lifelike figure depicting what a human would look like if the species evolved to survive car crashes. Created as part of a road safety campaign for the Transport Accident Commission, it was meant to symbolize the vulnerability of human bodies in such accidents.
I love her work she is one of my favourite artists
I'm still not sold on the effectiveness. Reminds me of the laughing stock of the (?NSW) "Sloth" anti drug ad. Aimed at teens, but missed the mark.
Our speed limit in school zones is 40km, during school start/finish times, and house areas are almost always only 50km. They dropped the limit from 60km years ago, since then the number of deaths per years has dropped significantly.
Depends on your area, some places are 60/70kmh near suburbs specifically in Geraldton where I’m from and from my suburb.
School zones are 25 kph here in SA
@@karenwadwell6007 schools zones in Western Australia are 40kmh
@@SoggyToast506 I didn't know that
@@karenwadwell6007 that's very slow, but if it saves lives it's worth it
In Oz, we dont dance around a subject.
amerricans do when they shoot someone dead
Haha, no we do not haha
@@amiemarieart you must be american i bet you do with your fck wit gun laws
@@Mediawatcher2023 ummm nope! I'm Australian?? We are passionate about subjects and don't "sugar coat" anything, hence why our gun laws here in Australia work very well.
@@amiemarieart yes they do but not in america as ryan dosnt understand
The Tired Drivers ads are brilliant, including the signs on the side of the roads. My Mate from Ireland was shocked at our ads, but we drive long distances often and most of us have been tired to the point of not being able to stay awake for even five seconds. There is only one option then and we have places that we can pull over especially during holidays.
The ad that was recommended needs to be seen to believe... Even if you don't air this because of the sound track , you wont be the same after watching it, it is a epic in your face ad on drink driving. The song by REM "Everybody Hurts" really drives it home...(pardon the pun) have the tissues handy. TRIGGER WARNING for those that lost those on the roads,,, This five minute retrospective of road safety campaigns is a compilation of 20 year of TAC ads. The montage features iconic scenes and images from commercials that have helped change the way we drive, to the song Everybody Hurts by REM. ua-cam.com/video/Z2mf8DtWWd8/v-deo.html
Couldn't agree more. Without doubt one of the most impactful ads in the world!
Bloody hell mate😭 I've seen some shockers but haven't seen this one.
Talk about a kick in the guts. Literally made me cry 😱
Ryan could probably react with the ad muted, the visuals alone have an impact to drive (ignore the pun) the point across
@@datwistyman I've watched this off and on over many years still kicks me in the guts and the tears fall... pretty powerful ad indeed...
Damn should have taken the advice for tissues seriously
Not sure if it's been mentioned in a previous comment, but that second ad, the "Auntie Shirley" one, is the shortened cut. There is an extended one where the family leaves a family event, like a bbq or something, they pass a police vehicle and the dad gets nervous, they pass without issue and he sighs in relief, and then it is pretty much where you caught the rest of it.
Yeah there are 30 60 and extended versions. The full thing is chilling! ua-cam.com/video/Nnt0LA1axAY/v-deo.htmlsi=Mjfnw6HQJ-8zMzbX
Great vid because you have still raised awareness. Thankyou Ryan
The add that stuck with me was the one where the little girl answers the door expecting her dad to be home from work and it’s the police who tells the family that he died on the road. I’ll never forget it
The 15 PG means parental guidance for viewers under 15...due to the content.
No, I think it just means 15 seconds (15"), there is a few longer copies of that same speeding grey falcon ad I've seen on TV that also provide more context/detail. Also parental guidance is 13 here, not 15 (PG13) AFAIK.
I think the 15" meant 15 seconds - the OP used the " symbol which is an abbreviation for an arcsecond (1/3600th of a degree) which is not the same thing as the unit of time.
The 15" definitely means 15 seconds. The 30 second version is here ua-cam.com/video/nSqqC_ngJ1o/v-deo.html
Theres a 6sec one (for YT), multiple 15 sec PG ones, a 30sec PG and M; and a 60 sec MA one.
PG, M and MA are TV ratings (which is why the 6sec YT ad doesnt have one)
I may/may not have repeated binged then to know this....
The "think about us" ad was also at a time when we (in Victoria) were losing a lot of our first responders to the psychological traumas caused by attending fatal traffic accidents.
The other side of this is our universal health care - reducing accidents reduces demand on our system.
We forget about the Police and Ambos who see those horrors at the site of an accident. I feel for them and their families.
I was in a car accident back in 1995 and still dealing with the aftermath.
Most police, ambulance, and fire fighters end up with PTSD and more mental health issues from the traumatic events
In South Australia where I live the road deaths tally is 105 so far for the year. It’s considerably higher than usual. Only approx 60 this time last year.
In Australia we have had serious issues with death tolls on the road, and our PSA’s are serious, and they will make you cry. During school holidays punishments are often doubled or tripled for road offences.
Don’t be a bloody idiot, don’t drink and drive.
I loved the "bloody idiot" ads.
@@nataliecarrington2550 me too :) The little finger ones too :)
I should point out that TAC is limited to the state of Victoria hence the lower stats, other states have similar ads
NSW "pinkie" ad is a classic ua-cam.com/video/5hWxU_ICoHM/v-deo.html
In Australia they tell you to wear leathers when riding a motorbike, leather boots, leather pants with padding, leather jacket, leather gloves & most important your helmet. The leathers protect your body better then denim. Also we have an ad where the driver is distracted, over the speed limit & collides with a school girl crossing the road on a crossing. It’s pretty horrific to see. Thanks for sharing your thoughts & story ♥️😊
The TAC is the Victorian “Transport Accident Commission” and amongst other things, they produce driving safety adverts. The couple of adverts you have watched are only a small part of the full footage. Eg the family in the speeding car pass someone else getting a ticket, they pass a truck and also miss a turnoff, and as their attention is diverted the accident occurs. Helmets in Australia are compulsory, but protective clothings isn’t. Riders should be covered from top to bottom with boots, leather jacket, leather pants and gloves, etc. Regarding speed impacts, my mother was 13 when hit by a car and suffered a fractured skull with ongoing issues, so I do agree with safer driving limits in built up areas, but bring the speed limit down form 60 kph to 40 ~ 30 kph in many locations is ridiculous and places all of the responsibility on the drivers and almost nothing on the pedestrians.
is that the one where the driver is worried about their speedo reading and crashes the car because they were not looking at the road while driving ?
The most hard hitting TAC ads I remember are the one with the lady in the wheelchair struggling to say the line "I wouldnt be like this now if I had never gotten in that car" and "so this is Christmas".
The TAC generally alternates between shock ads and less graphic ones because too many of either tends to stop having the right impact on behaviour.
I always told my children, when they passed their driving test, that it’s better to be 20 minutes late in this world rather than 60 years too early in the next one.
TAC (Traffic Accident Commission) usually release ad campaigns in a series of short ads which tell a story.
I was watching your reactions the other day and literally had the same thought that you should watch TAC ads. Older ones are the best, through the 80s and 90s. Especially at the time when we had less gore in movies and TV they were a big deal. New Zealand followed our lead and had some great ads too.
Ryan, the brutally direct PSA's were pioneered in Australia, so drink driving, smoking, drugs, etc... in the early 2010's the ads took a sarcastic dark humorous twist, like the one you think is about skin cancer or water safety at the beach, but no it's about school truancy and adult literacy. - it was a group of teens running down the beach, then they start exploding, pan back to the sign on the fence they passed, "Warning: Mine Field".
I think the Grim Reaper AIDS ads were the first weren't they? They look incredibly tame today, but I'm old enough to remember the hysteria when they first aired. I never got to see them when they first aired, cause my parents basically stopped me watching any tv in fear of me seeing them & I think others did the same & pretty quickly they limited them to only being shown after kids bedtimes. There were pictures with that campaign too, I saw those, went over my head tbh
@@mehere8038 I remember the Grim reaper AIDS ad, scared the crap out of me going from watching Thomas the tank engine to some unstoppable thing that is going to kill everyone even the blonde girl that looked like my cousin. It's on YT. It's also gets a mention in Hilltop Hoods song fifty in five "Grim reaper with a bowling ball". Absolutely one of my top 3 ads
@@coolhandluke1503 I've gotta say "what were they thinking?" to put that on during Thomas the Tank Engine!!!!! I mean how is that possibly useful? Even if they were oblivious to the trauma they were causing little kids, why on earth would you waste money airing it during that show? What are the little kids going to do in response to seeing it? Are they going to stop sharing needles with their heroin?????
I never realised it was shown in such obvious kids tv shows, that's insane! Should have stuck with "do the right thing" & "have a go" ads there.
@@mehere8038 and @coolhadluke1503 that was at the time when Television had the beginnings of the "C" rating, when it was otherwise "G", "PG" or "AO"... now these are "P", "C" and "G" collectively a greater "G" as Preschoolers, Children and General; "PG", "M" and "MA"; and the edited form of "R" to become "MA"....
I wanna add the pioneering shock PSA ads to the Australian inventions page now to share that with the world, but have no idea how to cite that & confirm we were the inventor. Anyone have any ideas on how to do that?
(I like adding stuff like this when I learn it, cause some countries add the most ridiculous crap & try to claim credit for being "the best" & creator of EVERYTHING, while we don't tend to, so our contributions to the world tend to get severely underplayed)
Gotta love Aussie ads they always pack a punch....old or new..yes people complain so some ads only shown for a month the archived then couple years later they bring them back a Ryan.greetings from sth Australia 🇦🇺 👍 🦘🐪🪃
This was a graphic series of adverts by Transport Accident Commission (TAC), our road injuries insurer in Victoria Australia. They were amazingly successful at reducing road trauma, injuries and deaths. It was part of a multi-pronged strategy which saw the road toll in our state reduce steadily across the ten or so years of the campaign.
My brother is an Aussie cop…attached to traffic and I was an ICU nurse. Believe us when we say that’s exactly what happens and these ads are so necessary
Bikers also have whole solid back pads to protect your back when you fall. Some of them are in-built into Leather riding Jackets. Strong boots, kneepads built into strong leather trousers. Helmets are compulsory.
In some states, teens around the age for driver's licence are taken to places like fair grounds with a stand, and there are demonstrations of accidents and the impact
For the second one its, when it says “the lucky ones get caught” it means the luck ones referring to certain drivers going over the speed limit, they get caught by the police and get fined and couple hundred bucks. The unlucky ones don’t get caught by police and could end up dead from the car losing control and going off the road.
Hope that helps if your confused.
As a longtime motorcyclist ,50 years started at 6 .
AGAT , all the gear all the time.
even 3k to the shop.
Me too. That ad is why.
GRAHAM - Project Graham (also Graham and Meet Graham) is a lifelike figure depicting what a human would look like if the species evolved to survive car crashes. Created as part of a road safety campaign for the Transport Accident Commission (TAC), it was meant to symbolize the vulnerability of human bodies in such accidents.
The 1987 AIDS ad with the Grim Reaper was the Best.
Fun fact: i met graham on his tour of Australia for school so we saw all the graham videos and what diagrams they had for the museum. He is more impactful in person
I can’t remember if it was an Australian or New Zealand ad but it was about some guy speeding and another guy pulls out on to the road but doesn’t see him and suddenly everything pauses, they both hop out the car and the guy that made the mistake of not noticing the other guy that happened to be speeding basically starts begging the speeder to not hit him, he’s got his son in the back, he made a mistake, he’s sorry. And the speeding dude just replies with “there’s nothing I can do, I’m sorry.” Something along those lines.
It’s a very powerful ad because it plays on the emotional aspect but more importantly, it shows something that ads like these tend to not mention and that is OTHERS make mistakes too. If you change your behaviour, you can better account for others mistakes. If the guy in the ad hadn’t been speeding, he could’ve stopped in time.
Seeing the motorcycle ads always puts the wind up me a bit as all of my brothers rode at some point in their lives, along with many family friends. My eldest and the youngest brothers were both big into road bikes. My eldest was into Suzuki Katanas, the youngest had a Honda CB900F Bol D'or as his first bike (before the legislation change to restrict the size of the engine capacity relative to the rider's experience). He could lift the front wheel of that thing for the full length of our street. We lived on the side of a hill, so the driveway was downhill and the road was uphill, and about a kilometre and a half to the main road, he'd pick it up and go like the clappers... mostly to piss off the neighbour across the street (nasty piece of work who hated everyone in the street because most of us were public housing and she owned hers...loooong story...) and for the fun of it...😏 where was I...oh yeah, donor cycles... the boys always wore the best safety gear they could get hold of. After hearing horror stories from mum's best friend who was an operating theatre nursing sister and a survivor of a pretty bad motorcycle accident herself, they always wore the gear rain hail or shine. My youngest son is also a rider and won't leave the house without all of the gear on. It has saved his life on the three occasions he has been involved in crashes, none of which were his fault but would still have been a whole lot nastier if he was squidding.
If you're going to spend a 4 or 5k on a bike, spend another k or so on good gear that'll keep all ya squishy bits together and where they're supposed to be...😏
🙃🐨🇦🇺
I've spent about 2 grand on my gear and still have more to get. Shits expensive.
Folk in the medical profession will sometimes refer to motorcyclists as "organ donors". They don't write that down anymore after their nicknames for various patients were exposed to the public. Proper attirei while riding is essential because car drivers rarely look out for motorcyclists.
As someone who has lost family and friends to drinking and driving, I would be happy to see the privelege of a driver's licence removed permanently for anyone who does it. Same goes for drugged and driving.
In my hospital the term "donorcycles" is used...
problem with permanent removal is it would likely result in illegal driving without a licence, so mandatory breath testing in car devices is more effective in stopping those people getting behind the wheel drunk
Bikes can move around so fast and be completely hidden in blind spots, especially behind newer SUVs with large rear pillars. They often seem to come completely out of nowhere. Having the headlight on makes them much more visible.
When some of these ads were released, there would be a public service announcement due to the shock value of some of them, so that children and others could be prepared by their parents. The TAC did a great job with them.
The 10km less ad was filmed on Somers Pde, Altona. Dragon Temple Restaurant is still there. As is the milkbar/newsagent, the laundry, the fish and chips and bakery. If you look on Google maps, there is even a pedestrian about to step out from between two cars EXACTLY where the 60km/h guy steps out in front of the fish and chips.
I watched the add with the guy getting hit carry the pizza being filmed. it was filmed at the shops at the end of my street. It took an entire day to film about 15 seconds of footage. about 10 cars and dozens of dummies were used.
I remember I had to watch almost two hours of TAC commercials straight, choose one. Dissect, analysis and interpret it as a school assignment in year 11. I am still traumatised by it.
Sadly, this year the road toll is higher than its been in too long. The TAC needs to bring back these ads.
I made both my kids watch the TAC ad’s before they got their L’s. I watched them as a teenager and the impact remains to this day. Both of my kids are very careful and pay attention when behind the wheel so no regrets showing them. I rewatch the TAC Christmas compilation before every long trip as a reminder and it has saved my life more than once.
I noticed the road toll is going up considerably this year and it’s heartbreaking, I feel like every time I turn on the news there’s been another fatal accident. we need to be showing these ads again, teach this generation they way we were- shock works! A road toll of 1200 is 1200 too many.
It blew my mind that "Katie, Bend your knee" was re-released in 2020
Unfortunately cars are getting heavier and heavier, so while crashes are just as low, pedestrians are far less likely to survive. Energy is proportional to mass after all..
The public awareness ads in the 80s about AIDS were pretty good. With the driving ones, I do wish more people would take them seriously. I get so annoyed when the local community pages have posts warning people where speed traps are and booze busses. And then to make themselves feel better they crap on about it all being about revenue raising and its not because the government sets rules to keep us safe. Morons.
A few years ago, my husband and I were driving home to our home in rural Queensland when we came across a motorcyclist wandering around the side of the road after obviously losing control of his bike. He was bloody and dazed and we were trying to get him to sit down and wait for the ambulance. But he wouldn't sit down, he was insistent on trying to find his big toe, which was no longer where it should have been on his foot.
His big toe may have been a red flesh like streak on the road surface. The road is like a cheesegrater at high speeds.
I have come off my motorcycle once, ambulance was called. The ambulance medic wasn't sure whonthey were looking for. At the time, I was upset at writing off an expensive helmet after just two weeks. An afternoon in hospital and no bodymor head injuries. I couldn't recall what had happened so possible concussion and give a ride into the hospital.
The amazing thing with the ad where the pedestrian is hit, it was 30 years ago! The production for the time is amazing.
I watched the add with the guy getting hit carry the pizza being filmed. it was filmed at the shops at the end of my street. It took an entire day to film about 15 seconds of footage. about 10 cars and dozens of dummies were used.
The “pictures of you” ad with the song matched to photos of the deceased and family was a hard hitter.
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The everybody Hurts campaign is based around the the death of a speeding driver in (i think) 2010. Interviews with passengers, the GF, the family and friends, and other people affected by his death. The campaign was bookended by a clip from Channel 7 news on his death, and the Eulogy at the Funeral.
America has almost 3 times the fatalities from road accidents when you account for population, which surprised me, as you guys appear to have better roads than us.
thats school shootings americans dont care
I understand that they don't have booze buses, a 0.08% alcohol limit (ours is 0.05%), and I understand their speeding laws aren't enforced as rigidly as they are here. In Victoria, 3km/h over the limit will earn you a ticket.
@@briancampbell179 only 3km thats insane
@@Mediawatcher2023 Nope, that's what a limit is.
@@user-xi6nk4xs4s do you know how fast 3km is from zero not much
For Motorcycle safety, you wear leathers. Jacket, Leggings, gloves, helmet and boots. All designed so that if one drops and slides over a road surface which acts like very course grinding surface the grinding doesn't act on the rider's body.
Watch them again and then again Ryan. Stay safe🙂
Road deaths have significantly decreased over the years for a combination of reasons, police random breath testing, having a designated driver when going out with s group of friends, change of attitudes by ads and peer pressure to do the right thing and catch an user or taxi as well as reduced speed limits in built up areas to 50 klm in suburban streets and 40klm past schools. Australians are pretty good at accepting the need for all these laws, it helps everyone. TAC is transport accident commission and they are a government arm related to covering costs related to road accidents cheers Robyne
The biggest reason why the toll had dropped.Is the safety features built in to the cars. Air bags, crumple zones. ABS, Traction control, collapsible steering columns, better tyres,
Not in south Australia they aren't
As an ex-biker. Wear leathers .... boots, pants, jackets, gloves ! It saved me on a few occasions.
I'm with ya
The best ones were when the dad went out and padded all around the outside of the car with lounge seat cushions, spare thin mattresses and stuffed toys. He did this for his daughter's car when she first got her licence.
The most iconic TAC ad is the one with the lady doing physiotherapy and the healthcare practitioner says "bend your knee, Katie".
That last ad reminded me of my brothers death. He wasn’t a pedestrian but was driving his motorcycle to work when a drunk driver ran a red light and my brother hit the windshield, dying almost instantly with fatal damage to his body.
This is why I drive within the speed limit and always leave 2 car lengths between myself and the car ahead, and why I am always focused, alert and checking around me.
Good, but 2 seconds is better.
Australian here. These ads did their job for me. I refuse to speed, refuse to move my car until all passengers have their seatbelts on, and refuse to touch my phone while my car is turned on. Anything the ads don't scare into you should be covered by your friend being killed when HIS friend decides to show off and flip the car three times through a busy intersection at peak hour.
Whatever you think is more important than watching the road and checking your speed, it's not.
The lucky ones: the dashes means seconds. There are longer versions of those ads. 30, 45, 60 and 90 secs.
The 90 second cinema version is chilling.
Err, I linked to the 90 second version and now it seems to not be here?
I live on an island off the Queensland coast. The speed limit is 60 klms per hour to protect the wildlife. Another island has a speed limit of 40klms. You get used to it.
7:12 Doctor Who Zygon lookin’ dude lol
😀😀😀😀😀The correct term is leathers, pants and jacket boots for protection
helmet gloves. Goggles or sunnies which are the only optional items 💜💜💜💜💜
for when you ride.
The 15" refers to it being a 15 second version of the ad. There would be a 30 second standard version that gives you more info, then after that has been broadcast for a whinge they'll start showing the short version to remind people of it.
I'm in Queensland, Australia. In suburbs and towns now, in residential areas, the limit is 50kms/hr. For this reason.
Around school zones, during 7--9:30 and 2:30-4 the limit is 40.
Apparently though, for emergency doctors, if you want to learn how to deal with MVAs, Australia is the place.
Stabbings, London or South Africa. Gunshots NY or Chicago etc. But car accidents, with our wide open places and so far to travel, its Australia.
The current South Australian one is "Yeah, I Drink and Drive, I'm a Selfish Prick"
The motorcycle clothing one is truely relevant. I wear protective boots, Kevlar jeans, helmet (full face), jacket and gloves when riding. The boots saved my ankle in a relatively minor accident. The outer leather got cut through but the inner protection stopped it going further. I still ended up with ligament damage due to ankle being pinned whilst rolling, but that was it. No cuts or scrapes anywhere. If I wore running shoes, like some idiots, it would have been a different story. Wear the protective gear regardless of whether it is a short or long ride.
Hi, Australian here. My Son rides a motorbike, he wears protective gear every time. Helmet, motorcycle pants, Jacket and boots. The pants jackets both have special plates built into them that doesn't degrade the way jeans and normal leather jackets do if they come off and are dragged along the ground. They also have protection at the ribs and back.
The last video with the guy getting hit carrying the pizza I watched in the early internet days and it had a huge affect on me. I had no idea it was an ad and thought someone just happened to record this guy getting annihilated on the road. It didn't have any of the ad related content before or after so there wasn't any context. There isn't a time when crossing the street, even today, that I don't think about it. Although it was intended for drivers to slow down, it had great affect on this pedestrian! 😄
Im an Aussie and I have never before seen or heard of this Graham dude, so I am as perplexed as you are
I came off my bicycle when I was in high school, coming down a hill and hit a patch of gravel. Momentum kept me going the same direction, but gravity meant I nearly ended up taking a dirt nap; 20-odd years later I still have scars from it, and I've had a couple of pieces of gravel that were DEEP in my skin finally make their way out over the past 5 years. That was at probably 20-25k/h. I can't imagine NOT wearing proper protective gear when on a motorbike. I have a few friends who are motorbike riders, and one of them always says "spills are a matter of WHEN, not IF." Her philosophy is to make sure that she's taken as many precautions as possible so that when she does come off her bike, she can walk away from it.
Dress for the slide.Not for the ride.
The second advert, you are watching the shortened version. They have missed 2 or 3 cops who were either busy or didn’t see them speeding due to larger vehicles being in the way. Several times it shows their speedometer being higher than the limit.
the 15" means it is a 15 second long ad (15' would be 15 minutes). The letter after are the rating PG is parental guidance (ie recommended for 12years+) M is mature (recommended 15 years +) this would align with rating of the TV program they could be shown during, so kid friendly programing wouldn't get the more graphic ads.
The best TAC ads were from the 90s. They were the really shocking ones that stuck with everyone for their entire lives. Seeing people not wearing seatbelts getting thrown through windscreens, it's pretty traumatic, but damn powerful.
Well, our TAC ads certainly worked on you.
In the holiday season you can also loose double demerits as a deterrent to speeding and drink driving.
Motorcycle riding gear has a number of different options.
There's the traditional leather which some purists say is the only safe gear to wear (and which is not correct), there's heavy duty synthetic gear which is designed to be slippery when heated by friction, so you slide rather than roll and theres my preferred option which is "regular" clothing that has reinforced linings, often using Kevlar and the like.
They almost always have stiff padding in the knees, buttock, elbows and spine.
I unfortunately "tested" my gear out years ago. Not even the slightest bit of damage to my zip up hoddie (looks like a normal hoodie, until you feel the pads and see the Kevlar labels inside it).
My elbow however wasn't as lucky, it took the full weight of me and my bike and was badly dislocated (despite the thick elbow pad).
I am still unable to straighten my arm fully and am frequently in pain from it (either do to reaching for ornlifting something, or just random aches and pains).
Fortunately, I can still ride and the accident hasnt dampened my love for two wheels.
Oh, and the accident was at slow speed and caused by loose stones in an intersection. In hindsight, if I straightened up and rode up the kerb, I could have kept it upright with only some embarrassment.
Trying to continue the turn after I regained control / traction left me not enough road to complete the turn.
The TAC is the Traffic Accident Commission- it’s basically insurance. If you have an accident on a Victorian road, the TAC looks after your healthcare and rehabilitation. It’s in their interest to prevent injury. That’s why they are so full on with their advertising.
TAC is the Victorian Transport Accident Commission. Their ads worked very well.
These are really good, Ryan, you should watch more of them - there are some even more shocking ones!
My brother was wearing full riding leathers, proper motorcycle boots and a helmet when he was hit by a car. His helmet saved his brain and his leathers and boots saved his body. The leathers got shredded and he had full gravel rash. A couple of weeks in hospital but he walked out.
You have really selected the mild TAC adverts, some of them are very extreme and many time have shocked me and made me jump, they have impact that is for sure.
Ryan, as a motorbike rider, I always had steel capped boots, leather jacket with kevlar patches on my leather jeans and on the elbows and back of the jacket. Managed to survive two crashes with little injuries.
My health teacher showed us these videos at school during class, it was like a month or two ago.
Those clips were tame compared to others that have aired on our tele here in Aus. and our local speeds are at 50 kmh/30mph in built up areas with main roads at 60 to 70kmh/40-45 mph depending on the zone. Open highway is 100 kmh or 60 mph in Victoria. Speed limits change per state and for the most part everyone ignores the ads and drive at the posted speed.... most people but not all.
There were two campaigns. One slogan was "don't fool yourself, speed kills." The other was "if you drink and drive, you're a bloody idiot." So us Aussies combined the two and said "don't fool yourself, you're a bloody idiot."
"Graham" was a project between an artist, the TAC and a bunch of anatomy experts to build a sculpture of a human who could survive high speed impacts.
In the suburbs of Perth, Australia, the speed limit is 50 kilometres. On main roads it's mainly 70 kilometres
9:50 & that reaction is why they made them that way.
Transport Accident Commission (TAC) - strong ads in Australia many years ago.
Protective gear for a motorcycle rider is boots - proper motorcycle boots, kevlar jeans, gloves, helmet and a leather or armoured jacket.
I was around when random breath testing started with “booze buses” in the 1980s. The drinking culture and the driving culture were dangerous and deeply ingrained over generations. People enjoyed taking their powerful cars out for long drives, and of course if you live in the country and want to go out on the town for a night, driving home was expected. So these ads had to be powerful and not beat around the bush. There was a point that I personally thought they went too far but I guess some people have to be thoroughly shocked into being sensible.
A saying among motorcyclists is, Dress for the slide, not the ride. you can buy Kevlar lined and padded jeans for riding if your too cool for leather.