LTSA - Same Day (New Zealand)

[VioletYoshi]

The woman was so over acting

[mikeshearer1250]

I can remember watching this when I was little.

[omfg823]

was the speeding, at fault car, a police car? looks like it from the lights on the roof.

[wuzzlevideos]

@omfg823 I'm fairly sure it's a roof rack, not a light bar. There's no way they'd have a police car for the crash!

[davorunner]

I was just thinking that the way they did this ad it would've been a lot clearer if the same people they were following from the start were the ones that were in the wrong. That's why so many got confused. Either way the meaning of if you speed you run the risk of killing people is clear.

[Matr0nMalice]

Should feel so wrong clicking 'like' considering what it's trying to portrait, but as the acting is cheeseball to the Nth degree... no pangs of guilt.

[wordhappyHazel]

At home we used to rip this off when it came on. I would be David's wife and Dad would be David, his crying getting more surreal and bizarre each time the ad came on... Oh, the memories. Recently at a friend's birthday party I was chatting with a guy and we totally remebered this ad and ripped it off; hilarious. Legendary, indeed!

[wuzzlevideos]

@wordhappyHazel You are incredibly odd :) I'm glad it brought you such joy!

[wordhappyHazel]

@wuzzlevideos I know. But look at the environment I was raised in! XD Thanks for posting this!

[Crispysmith123]

Me and my friends still make reference to this ad all these years later. "Don't say sorry to me... say sorry to his kids!" and "Michael-aah!-"

When you're a kid, this type of stuff creeps you out. As an adult, it's sort of corny.

I knew I'd find it here.

[BCJEntertainment247]

Would be upsetting if the acting didn't suck.

[moksheebs]

Ok I think I get it.

David was kicking his VTEC while Michael (I persume) was all fine.

David's car rammed Michael's, killing Michael and his wife.

Michael's kids are now orphaned, while David gets a wheelchair, a notice, and a forever's supply of Guilt(tm).

[girlofgaga63]

126k? That sounds pretty bad, but then again I'm american and I'm not sure how fast that is since I pnly know m/ph

[ajdocumentary]

@girlofgaga63 roughly 90.6mph

[girlofgaga63]

@ajdocumentary HOLY SHIT! No wonder those people died

[ajdocumentary]

@girlofgaga63 guess where i live? I live in a place where we have the most expensive road but one of the highest road accident prone area. cars here sometimes travel at 100-120mph. watching these vids running at those speeds which is standard here makes me want to stop driving.

[TTYLPYT]

@girlofgaga63 its roughly 80m/ph i think

[girlofgaga63]

So the kids lived but their parents die? 

[moksheebs]

@girlofgaga63 yep. Michael and his wife died on scene.

[Mistoballin]

"You were doing 126 K!" **Dramatic spin**

[bucjo813]

It's amazing that people don't get this ad. I would have first seen this when I was about 8 and I got it.

[XxGirlyNinjaXx]

i don't get this at all when she "its the same day" , if anyone does, please tell me cuz ive watched this like 3times.

[wuzzlevideos]

@XxGirlyNinjaXx What is so hard to understand about this? He's in hospital after the crash. He drove into the family. He got a speed camera fine the same day. It's symbolic. His girlfriend or wife tells him it happened on the same day and he finally realises what he's done and breaks down in tears.

[FIrcoal]

@wuzzlevideos What's may be hard to understand for others but for sure was for me is that from an American point of view where we drive on the right side of the road it looks like when at the crash the one at fault is the family driving because the other car is on the right side of the road. However one has to note that they're supposed to be on the left. On first watch it was hard to get, but now that I see it. It makes much more sense.

[wuzzlevideos]

@XxGirlyNinjaXx And besides, did "don't say sorry to me, say sorry to his kids!" not give it away?

[theycallmehighc]

@XxGirlyNinjaXx

I'm pretty sure she's pointing out that the fine is for a day when he was speeding at 125kph and it happens to be the same day he crashed and killed those people. So she now has evidence that it was his fault...i think. But, like you, i questiond it too.

[historybuff5341]

@XxGirlyNinjaXx The thing is, the fine revealed that he was speeding. Since it was on the same day, it implies that the reasopn he hit the family's car was because he was speeding. he could have prevented the death of the father.

[wuzzlevideos]

@historybuff5341 Exactly. Why does everything have to be so explicitly laid out. Are the viewing public really so stupid that they can't make these connections by themselves!?

[XxGirlyNinjaXx]

@XxGirlyNinjaXx ahh yea i know what this video is about..lol

[ometta7]

I just started cracking up when he began blubbering at the end. lol

[1RadicalOne]

I smiled too, but a vicious sort of "Ohh, I love how he feels now" smile. The sort of emotion that goes with the knowledge that he will have to live with that for the rest of his life.

Like that time (real story) a family in Texas was holding an infant in their lap, got into a crash (speeding was involved), ultimately reducing the baby's IQ to low 70s and making them a quadriplegic. The only consolation there is that the parents will have to live with that for life.

[5blacksmith5]

Is that a police car? O.o'

[RaneDuPre]

Well I watched this twice and I stil don't get it - same day as WHAT? And if she means the accident, how the hell do THEY know about it?? This ad...okay.

[wuzzlevideos]

@RaneDuPre *Sigh* ok. The guy that hits the family in the car IS the guy in the hospital that receives the speeding fine. Getting the fine and his wife realising it was on the same day he hit the family is purely a symbolic thing to happen, it's not really integral to the story. The story is that he was going too fast, couldn't control it, and drifted across to hit them. Getting a fine is an extra kick in the nuts.

[RaneDuPre]

@wuzzlevideos I think I will say, unecessary drama in a commercial :/

[wuzzlevideos]

@RaneDuPre I don't think you really understand the point, then. We're dealing with an emotive subject here, life and death. Sometimes people need shocking.

[Ravenya03]

I grew up in NZ, and my god, we had the most terrifying PSA adverts of all time. The crazy American teenager breaking eggs in her kitchen doesn't even begin to compare with how kiwi kids were traumatized.

Does anyone else remember the one about the girl who was playing with her dolls and started reenacted the abuse she suffered? "Eat your peas, Molly! You ungrateful little bitch!" 

[timmydownawell]

Does anyone remember a 1970s ad for seatbelts... showed a chick in the passenger seat with the voiceover saying something like "in a few moments this woman's life will change forever. She'll have two broken legs... but that's not so bad. She'll need 73 stiches to her face... but that's not so bad. What's bad is that this will be the last thing she will ever see" (cut to car crashing into a truck) "...she will be blind". That was pretty confronting stuff, especially for us young kiddies!

[Sailorsega]

Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU! for uploading this bit of kiwi hstory.

[threnx]

Why is she opening and reading his mail? Isn't that a crime?

[NKOWlifelight]

@threnx looks like she's his wife.

[sacrednic]

You can get the fridge magnet with the words "It's the same day david" from Iko Iko, Wellington.

[JordanianPride80]

the family guy was driving in the wrong lane wasn't he ? so he'll probably also die even if he hit a stand still car...he should get 70% of the blame

[sevnstrings]

@JordanianPride80

No, the ad is from New Zealand. We drive on the left here.

[Sailorsega]

@JordanianPride80 No he was on the left hand side of the road. That's the correct side.

[Pawsz]

nicholas! xD

[FrozenFirestorm]

I do not really understand what happened

[alexshepherd]

The speed camera flash isn't of the Dad driving the family - it's of the presumably-bullish David driving his Ford Falcon. That's potentially a bit confusing, could've done with a bit more footage of the Falcon and David driving.

Somehow there was no visibility at all for either driver (perhaps avoidable if headlights were turned on for daytime driving) and neither driver appears to have made any effort to avoid the other. Sadly, that's quite plausible. And a head-on smash is the most deadly.

[jcbeckettnz]

@FrozenFirestorm : The speed camera fine offence data was the same day he had the accident.

[SteveVithal]

"Don't say sorry to me, say sorry to his kids."

I've been saying that for years not remembering where it came from. Does anyone know year this is?

[Sailorsega]

@SteveVithal early 90's I think. Sorry I can't be more help.

[teaniwa]

omg i remember this ad when i was little! haha and going to school and trying to repeat the whole ad hahaha with the IT WAS THE SAME DAY DAVID!!! hahaha

[barakost]

i dont get it.

[piflover]

About five minutes before the driver (now in a wheelchair) crashed, which killed the driver of the other car, he went by a speed camera. Now he has received a massive fine for being caught speeding on the day of the crash.

[barakost]

i see now, thanks...

[ChristianThomas777]

does anyone remember Pio doing a spoof of this ad?

[bigbenlorax]

Sure do! "And the award for te best drinking and driving ad goes to... David. But, unfortunately he's at another award ceremony tonight... on the same day david [cuts to live link of David apologising] "I'm so sorry" "Don't say sorrry... etc Brilliant.

[electrogeek77]

That sounds HILARIOUS!

[Sailorsega]

@ChristianThomas777 didn't he do like five or six of them?

[IVmidable]

I remember seeing this ad on TV when I was little. Scared the complete hell out of me...

[smallvictoriesD1]

this video could have done with the bugger dog. Too late now :(

[LorenzoJThomson]

Been wanting to see this for ages!

[tanz83]

Wohoo @ re-upload. Thanks Wuzzlevids!!

[ArjeeBhajee]

thanks a bunch for re-uploading this too.

[gerryono]

shut those bastards up

[hereandthere42]

deeply sad....thanks for posting as always.

[spacetrig]

thanks for re-uploading! love it

[ILoveES33]

Thought I remembered this. . . Thanks for readding!