TAC - Beach Road (Australia)

[wuzzlevideos]

@randymatsunaga That's interesting. It would have to be the same Jesse Spencer, I think. Neighbours is, I think, filmed in Melbourne, and the TAC is obviously based in Victoria so it'd be same region. Good find!

[nukehumvee]

I remember a similar ad campaign in my country for DnD. The campaign consists of localised versions of Girlfriend, Beach Road and Joey (I Killed My Brother). But in this version the driver drives fast and drunk. Feels kinda awesome how TAC campaigns can have huge influence.

[wuzzlevideos]

@nukehumvee Where are you from?

[nukehumvee]

@wuzzlevideos Malaysia...

[nukehumvee]

@nukehumvee Don't say lame jokes like we live on trees and stuff. We're smart enough to know if anyone trolls about us.

[nukehumvee]

@nukehumvee By the way, while the narrators speak in Malay, the other people actually speak English.

[Seattlecarnut]

Although the video is fiction, I think it shows what can really happen if one is reckless in his or her driving.

[Seattlecarnut]

It just makes me cry watching her crying over her son. It could've been my nephew or niece.

[1RadicalOne]

Ek = 1/2(mv^2). And for you idiots lacking the brainpower to know what that means - those of you likely to be the killers here - that means hitting someone at 90 kph is equivalent to dropping your car on them from ELEVEN STORIES IN THE AIR.

[AugerMartel]

It may just be me, but while a couple of the later TAC videos are unintentionally hilarious, this one is no laughing matter. No BSing around, just a painful message and it really hits home.

I was a young kid when I first saw this ad on T.V and even today, it still has the same impact. That ambulance officer hits the mark with his speech.

They should remake this ad with the same dialog and show it on TV and to everyone taking their liscence test.

[Dohey]

everyone drives at 80 on beach road in melbourne its pretty fucked. most of the time if your doing the speed limit youll have some asshole up your ass which makes an accident more likely

[wuzzlevideos]

@Dohey Oh wow, is it actually called Beach Road? I just assumed it was a road near the beach. I'm from the UK so I have no idea :)

[jckangerski]

Aqui no Brasil muitos morrem nas estradas, cerca de 50000 por ano, e mesmo assim pouco se fala sobre segurança nas estradas. É uma cultura pobre infelizmente.

Gostei muito dos vídeos são bem produzidos. Uma pena não termos aqui.

Here in Brazil many die on the roads, about 50,000 per year, yet little is said about road safety. It is unfortunately a poor crop.

I really enjoyed the videos are well produced.

[racsonia]

The Newest one that has just come out like a day ago to me is the most touching and scary it is a culmination of most of theTAC ads and Wuzzle please post it

[wuzzlevideos]

Do you mean the retrospective of the past 20 years? It's first day was tonight I think, there was a media release on the TAC website. I'll try and post it but it's on the TAC website anyway, a 5 and a 3 minute version.

[electrogeek77]

Tacky tuxedos kill.

[Arkiv75]

is that ad a fiction or a real scene ?

[wuzzlevideos]

Fiction.

[c2105026]

I recall this ad, it was shown in nsw in '92-93. I recall it vividly, it freaked me out actually and i am 26 now. it especially hit home because the little boy was my age at the time so it could have been me or my classmates with a tube down his throat.

[tjfaust]

The first (or second) TAC ad. For those overseas, TAC government compulsory injury insurer has made a difference to the road toll, coming from the 80s of over 1,000 per 3 million, to this year looking at around the 300 mark for a pop of 4 million. The lowest in the world per head of population. Paul the paramedic was a mate and passed away overseas in 2006. I always think of him at Christmas. But "non Aussies", search the TAC ads here. They have a brilliant campaign each year.

[wuzzlevideos]

Thanks so much for posting this, and sorry to hear about Paul. Whenever I see this, I get the impression that he really cares about the message he's giving, and he's not just some lucky paramedic that they pick to go on TV.

If you don't mind me asking, how did he die?

[tjfaust]

believe it was a stroke (CVA)while working with an O/S Ambulance service. He did care and was a funny man.

[wuzzlevideos]

That's terrible :(

RIP, Paul. Thanks in part to you, lives are being saved daily!

[tigorbear]

I just did a little research and the commercial was shown in 1990, which means I was only 11!!! It was always at the back of my mind coz it was so real. I'm just so wrapped to have found it and viewed it again. Its certainly a powerful commercial if 18 years later I still remembered what happened in it and how emotive it was!

[tigorbear]

wow oh wow! do u have any idea how long i have 'remembered' this commerical...I must have been about 12 when I first caught a glimpse of it, and its stuck on me every since. I'm now 29, with children of my own, and I still remembered the commerical with the woman screaming over your dead child and saying at the end "Bring my Jamie back!"...and I just found it again! Wow. Definitely a powerful commerical if I've remembered it all these years!!!

[yNeville]

if the driver was doing 110km/h instead, he would have missed the kid completely.

[Taxistudd]

um why would the RTA be posting a speed limit of 60 around a populated area with a beach? it seems to me the person/s designating speed limits is the real criminal in all these cases of supposed 'speeding' incidents

[sebbonl]

Damn... And I thought we had some graphic ads in Holland.

[wuzzlevideos]

Any chance you could post some? Do you mean road safety ads specifically or other topics? I'd love to see some from Holland.

[sebbonl]

I'll see what I can do. :)

[ilikemilkdoyou]

Man, those are intense. I'm worried about being unsafe now and I don't even drive.

[rolla16]

-shudder- i remember this from when i was little. particularly the abmo driver at the end.

[wuzzlevideos]

You do? Any chance you can give me a year for when it was first broadcast? I have next to no information about these older TAC ads.

[rolla16]

i'll show my dad. he probably has a better idea of what year it was. i think i was about 5? so that was 1990? 1991?

[deadthevideo]

The TAC corporate site states that the ad was first shown in 1989.

[mechsta1980]

Wow, I can remember this commercial when I was a youngster, and it really shook me up then, and it still does. I seem to remember it got pulled off the air in NSW because of a huge number of complaints.

[wuzzlevideos]

NSW? Surely Victoria, being a TAC advert? Or was it used in a few states?

[mechsta1980]

Yeh, NSW had it, I dunno about anywhere else.

[deadthevideo]

Didn't NSW take the ad off the air following complaints that it was too distressing? I could be wrong but I read that somewhere.

[wuzzlevideos]

I'm afraid I have no idea, I'm in the UK and was only seven in 1989 :)

[ginogrz]

They should have some of these commercials in America, so many stupid drivers.

[nuovomondo82]

more like stupid pedestrians

[wuzzlevideos]

Which is fine if you're going the speed limit, but if you're going too fast, you haven't got time to slow down and you aren't in control of your car.

[kdoply]

It's really amazing how we don't have PSAs this powerful in America. Keep up the good work, Wuzzle.

[whizkidforte]

Now that's what I call a disturbing anti-speeding ad!