Safety Belts for Dummies or People

[@Thinker669]

I worn seat belts on 2 car accidents I had. It saved my life.

[@Kisakeen]

My mom got in a car crash (I believe 1970) when she was a kid up front hlwith her mom standing on the console of the car, they had the right away and a guy ran a stop sign and t boned them going over or at 40mhp in a neighborhood. Mom and her mom wasn't wearing a seat beat and git ejected out of the car and their car land on top of them but was held up by the fence, a resident of neighborhood and milkman was talking and saw the accident, the neighbor called 911 amd the milkman help my mom, her mom and her siblings out, the milkman dislodge a waffer cookie out of my mom thoart took off his shirt and laid it over mom and her mom so the grass and dirt wouldnt get into their wounds on their heads. And helped get the rest of the kids out, i only know about this story due to all the my aints ralking about it, one of them still have seizures due to that crash. The guy who hit them got arrested due to all the neighbors telling the police that he is the same guy that always run that stop sign. Lucky everyone lived that wreck

[@whattheheck1000]

4:44 - I'm glad my car was built 15,061 days after it became Federally mandated in the United States for windshields to stay in place in a frontal crash. That date was January 1, 1970 by the way. However, it was still legal for vans to have pop-out windshields after that date, and many cars built in Europe after then still had pop-out tempered glass windshields, but they were largely phased out in Europe by 1980 or so. But I'm in the USA and don't have a van, so 15,061 days it is! By the way, one of the great things about today is that even most junkyard hoopties have airbags, anti-lock brakes, crumple zones, side impact door beams, and many other safety features that few if any cars had in 1970. July 25, 2020 12:08 am

[@meganclark2631]

I show this movie to my students in drivers ed! They love it

[@lukenader]

And it's still so real

[@lukenader]

I'm watching this because, I texted a gif with the dummies in it. And remembered them from a commercial. I start watching this for the nostalgia of it, and thinking back... this winter I just had an accident when I slid on black ice and hit a telephone pole. I wasn't wearing my seatbelt, but I was very lucky that the airbags went off. I'm thinking when watching this video how lucky I am. And that this video is hilarious, but so true and this actually resonates ✌️😋

[@martykeaton182]

There're plenty more to check out as well. Like the video titled on here, Crash Test Dummies Safety Video. Even the ones I put on my Drivers playlist.

[@Xanatos21]

It's interesting that you say that because that's also what my Driver's Ed instructor did for us (Mr. Ninnis' School of Driving circa 2004). I remember all of us laughing at the end when the Crash Dummies were singing that rap song of theirs, lol.

[@shannonmccurdy9507]

@@lukenaderwhere you ok?

[@bougiellama4266]

*Fun fact* my mom is the one that hits the ball and the one that tells the kid to buckle up

[@ellacarlson5794]

That’s so funny, my dad is the one that was told to buckle up and threw the pitch

[@bougiellama4266]

@@ellacarlson5794 omg that’s so funny 😂

[@drewski1535]

I was looking for this still an awesome way to get an important message out to everyone I remember this in kindergarten 1,2 and 3rd grade still an amazing classic

[@whattheheck1000]

4:10-5:11 - I'm glad cars are much safer than that now. These crash tests were conducted in winter 1981-1982 in Germany. The cars were much older - early 1970s for the gold BMW and late 1960s/early 1970s for the white Mercedes. The cars in the first crash test looked newer - mid-late 1970s. The second and third crash tests looked painful. Look at the violent movement of the neck - and look at the steering wheel at 4:42. No amount of money would get me to crash a car into a tree at 25-30 mph with THAT in front of me. That's metal and wood. Airbags would have stabilized the head of the driver. Then again, my 2011 Honda Accord's steering wheel isn't the softest thing either, but it has an airbag in it so it's a moot point. By the standards that modern vehicles were designed to, those crashes aren't very severe. The crash into the tree looked about 27 mph. Modern cars are designed to take a similar crash at 40 with little to no injury to the occupants. 27 is less than half the kinetic energy. The Mercedes going into the back of the blue car was probably something like 50 mph, but 50 into a stationary vehicle is roughly equivalent to 25 into a barrier. Modern cars are designed to take a similar crash at 35 into a barrier, again 25 is about half the kinetic energy. Would I do those crashes for television to show the benefits of car safety (assuming the pay was right) in a car like my 2011 Accord? Without a second thought. Even many 1990s cars would be safe enough, assuming they had at least a driver airbag. I'd even trust a mid 1980s version of the Mercedes (with a driver airbag) as long as the safety features all were in order. February 28, 2018 12:44 am

[@kingvegeta9]

From safety belts to catching predators, he does it all.

[@vinniedelibero3622]

I saw this in middle school. It was hilarious at the end when they sing that rap song and Garfield as a crash test dummy.

[@neilsandwich7423]

Watched this in Drivers Ed today and Im hella meeming this boi

[@matthewvittetoe2317]

Ok Neil

[@lukenader]

Classic Neil

[@sophiafullerton]

They showed us this video paired with one about drunk driving every year when I was in elementary school. I didn't realize how old the video was at the time. Nearly twenty years old when I first saw it!

[@KingRoseArchives]

Good to know people saw it. I also produced the drunk driving video. A long time ago.

[@DeadRaymanWalking]

I remember seeing this along with the one about drunk driving, too...except for in my 8th grade health class.

[@chasechildress2720]

@@KingRoseArchives where you the same guy who was in the dealer training video for the 92,93 Buick roadmaster, and roadmaster limited ,also the roadmaster estate wagon.

[@silverslash7276]

After this line of work, Vince and Larry began working with Treyarc in their Call of Duty games, posing as stunt doubles for Klaus in Cold War zombies. They fit the role so well, they'll be returning and reprising the role for BO6.

[@sophiafullerton]

So weird to not see airbags in this video...

[@JUMALATION1]

JESUS F*CKING CHRIST. It is so unbelievable that some people actually thought "meh, why do I need a safety belt, it's for pussies". I had (HAD!) a relative that used a small weight to make it seem like he had fastened his seat belt if the police stopped him. Why go through all that trouble instead of just fastening it

[@djabroni_brochacho4644]

Ok the crash test driver looked like he was having fun

[@Henners]

Do you still have this on a VHS? I do a VHS podcast and I'm looking for as many crash dummie PSA's as I can find because I loved them in the 80s and 90s

[@roberttorquati5186]

Compile them all on a DVD disk and I'll buy them from you.

[@coreysownyoutube582]

I used to watch this at health class since elementary school

[@mostbecauseybyybelhafez2029]

thank you for telling us what happens if you don’t wear a seatbelt thank you so much

[@therealhardrock]

So does anyone else recognize Garfield's voice?

[@colourslynn8380]

Meeeeeeee I thought the same thing 😂

[@DeadRaymanWalking]

I did when watching this video in 8th grade, as well as a classmate.

[@narragansettboy9993]

I wasn't. I was too busy focusing on how the Crash Dummy in the grey jumpsuit sounds like Homer Simpson.

[@nikkisixx986]

And he voiced Peter venkman from real Ghostbusters cartoon

[@pennysanchez7656]

It's none other than Lorenzo Music

[@justthatnoodle]

i came only for the song at the end because i was intrigued after watching a minecraft video took me a couple searches but here i am

[@toonevanthefirstchannel5851]

Taken from the commercials of “Little Miss Dotty” on Nick jr in 2004

[@lukenader]

6:41 that drive home after the time out with the crew!

[@lukenader]

Hold up 7:25 they're still cheering for a crash ✋...... Lol it's a victory they weren't injured. I was expecting him pulling up safe at home 😅

[@cking509]

It'll never catch on.

[@Playroblox555w]

All I hear from blue shirt dummy is Garfield

[@brianheistan9859]

Is it me or does one of these dummies sound like Venkman from Real Ghostbusters

[@DeadRaymanWalking]

That's the late great Lorenzo Music doing one of the dummies voices. He was also the voice of Garfield.

[@marklawrence2053]

One of them sound like Garfield!!!!

[@rubythekingjt]

6 Ads in 1, 10 minute video.

[@whattheheck1000]

4:43 - I want a bit more than a Nixon-era seat belt to keep me from FLYING out the car. December 5, 2017 2:32 am

[@KingRoseArchives]

It was a battle to get the car companies to put those in the cars. But it paved the way for better solutions. Change is often incremental. Air bags and crush zones and numerous other safety features all had to be fought for. Fights worth fighting but long hard struggles to make sure enforceable regulations were in place. Another example of why government regulations are important for people. Corporations deride these regulations as tying their hands and interfering with freedom when in fact they are insuring our safety. They are lifesaving protections.

[@whattheheck1000]

I agree. Seat belts are very important. The windshield flying out of that car was very dangerous though. Had that seat belt failed he may have been thrown out of the car, and it's less dangerous to hit a windshield than to be ejected. IIRC the USA banned windshields that flew out in 1976 on cars when they introduced "windshield retention" (FMVSS 212) standards that required windshields to stay in place in a 30 mph frontal crash. Trucks, vans and SUVs got longer, I think to about 1990 before that standard applied to them. That BMW looked to be an early '70s model, not to mention it was a European spec model. There was an idea going around in the '60s and '70s that an ejecting windshield was safer because there would be no windshield to hit. Of course, this idea was completely stupid because seat belt use rates at the time were low, and even with a seat belt on you risk injury from debris if the windshield is ejected. IIRC it was mostly European cars that used this idea, and (with a few exceptions) they ditched it around the mid 1970s. I know that some vehicles that could get away with it used it for longer, I think the Volkswagen van was one vehicle with an ejecting windshield through at least 1988. Being a van it was still legal for it to have an ejecting windshield at that time. Most trucks, vans and SUVs complied with the windshield retention standard even in the late 1970s. Ironically, the VW van was safer than most other '80s vans... except for the windshield. January 3, 2018 11:52 am

[@lukenader]

9:09 got eeemm!

[@lukenader]

9:19 "sup dad" I'm dead

[@bougiellama4266]

Fun fact the girl that tells him to buckle up is my mom

[@javielalvarez5459]

I really hope they bring those duo back in CGI!

[@mauriciorabiella2398]

why?

[@Gryzeus]

Who's the host of this? He gives me Chris Hansen vibes.

[@kingvegeta9]

It's him

[@AwfulSkill]

I'm only here cause of TimeDeo lol

[@drewski1535]

I just received Vince and Larry dummies in the mail the incredible crash dummies still my favorite toys now waiting on the red crash car (You can learn a lot from a dummy buckle your safety belt)

[@codytaylor2663]

0:02 5:29

[@codytaylor2663]

9:40

[@alexluft5742]

0:35 Rick Mears

[@voop1006]

i (kinda) came from timedeo

[@thomasplouffe1363]

i watched this in grade 3

[@heavymetalmadness666]

Knew some people the burned to death because they could not get the seat belt off.

[@xientau9028]

Do you know if they would have survived the initial impact if they hadn't been wearing them?