UK Public Information Film - Motorway Safety - Hard Shoulders

[@nigelpargeter9388]

Ooh, Betty, you've been articulated!

[@davidlewis492]

How far did you fall Nigel?

[@Polemicist0]

Well, I never ever knew that the English actress, Michele Dotrice, actually ended her acting career, by being tragically hit by a passing articulated lorry on a motorway.

[@angelacooper2661]

What happened to Frank and Baby Jessica?

[@stuart121972]

Ohh Betty! Don’t change drivers on the motorway.

[@adudefromtheukvideos]

“DON’T STOP FOR ONE BIT, NOT EVEN TO DO A BIG SHIT” is what I would’ve gone with, people remember rhymes.

[@christopherwaring8285]

BETTY DID A WHOOPSIE IN HER KNICKERS WHEN SHE SAW THE HGV COMMING TOWARDS HER

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@MajorT0m]

I was going to tell you it didn't scan right, but the more the saying repeated in my head the more I was laughing at the slightly stoned cadence.

[@chriswaring5565]

OOH! BETTY DID A WHOOPSY ON THE HARD SHOULDER!!!

[@MrGoneTroppo]

Smart motorways - another genius idea, there is no bloody hard shoulder!

[@djgoldthing7166]

What a great idea. A safe place to pull over when you break down. We could spend a few billion converting our smart motorways to this great futuristic idea. It will be worth it.

[@MajorT0m]

Ludicrous isn't it. Even worse when it's the ordinary folk like you and I that can see this and not the people planning these schemes. Scary really.

[@ForestKicks]

Wow the news of the £1000 fine certainly shocked her didn't it

[@wisteela]

Yeah, she even farted like a lorry horn.

[@salfordricuk3959]

Imagine her face now, when she realised there wasn't a hard shoulder to break down in

[@ScreenBlaster13]

Even Frank Spencer wouldn't be that stupid.

[@christopherwaring8285]

OH YES HE WOULD!

[@cryptogee172]

😂

[@JasonFelminghamLee]

I can imagine the drivers rubbernecking. "Oh look there's a film crew, and there's the actress Michelle Dotrice!

[@wisteela]

Think once. Think twice. Think don't pitch a tent on the hard shoulder.

[@jaycee330]

Or in your trousers.

[@Wesumatex2020]

Love the narrator’s voice

[@neilpower60]

Patrick Allen, the voice of doom in Protect and Survive

[@Wesumatex2020]

Neil Power Cool 😎

[@SuperTed19021]

@@neilpower60 *"Tugs" also.*

[@richardbarrettguitar1228]

Somebody at Highways England didn’t see this in time....

[@fretboardmaster70]

Betty and The Urban Spaceman

[@stephensimpson4022]

That final clip looks like she’s about to be attacked by a pterodactyl!

[@frankmurphyburr3598]

oooh betty, there's a truck

[@speakfreeley4473]

Motorways are even more dangerous thanks to the introduction of "smart" motorways.

[@goldheartbadge]

Isn't that Neil Innes playing the husband? "Here it is - Junction 14!"

[@goldheartbadge]

@104123743357912885880 - I've since discovered that it is indeed the Bonzos/Rutles frontman. This PIF could well have been a scene from a BBC Bank Holiday special entitled 'Ron and Betty'. Former Rutle Ron Nasty is now living quietly in the Thames Valley with his new wife Betty and their two children: Ron's son Dieter, by ex-wife Chastity Hitler (whom Ron had proved in court to be an unfit mother), and Betty's daughter Jessica, from her marriage to Frank Spencer. It seems the four of them can do no wrong...but one afternoon, in Bank Holiday traffic on the M1, Betty's poor map-reading skills prove disastrous.

[@frankmurphyburr3598]

that's the urban spaceman alright

[@chriswaring5565]

IT WAS NEIL INNESS

[@kinder7]

Hey you! Yes you!

[@clarissamcpigeon7857]

This definitely isn't the late 80s. The cars and fashions are too dated, I think this is more like 1978 or so.

[@speakfreeley4473]

Very early 1980s. Remember first seeing this within weeks after Channel 4 came on air in 1982.

[@waveali5620]

Freeze frames endings most likely 70s. They loved using them back then.

[@jeanette8606]

@@speakfreeley4473 the Ford Cortina was still being made up until 1982 until it was replaced by the Sierra a year later so seeing loads of Cortina’s 1982 would be right.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@speakfreeley4473 Early 1980s, there's a Mark 5 Cortina in the advert. Not a good advert for a new car either, it's overheating.

[@speakfreeley4473]

@@jeanette8606 Indeed! After the coming of the Sierra any Cortinas still unregistered would have been flogged at giveaway prices.

[@n136h]

Poor Betty

[@ToastedAlmond98]

Sounds like it could be Patrick Allen doing the voice-over here, though I could be wrong...

[@briggsfartblender788]

Yes it is.

[@tealwashablemarker8886]

@@briggsfartblender788 finally the answer

[@andrewescalona8447]

THERE SHOULD BE A PIF WITH FRANK SPENCER

[@speakfreeley4473]

Makes sense! Whatever he did on TV & film he pretty much did all his own stunts.

[@tendrosstoodross2976]

Ooh Betty!

[@ianwatkins9602]

Ooh Betty...

[@sbabyskid-bx2xk]

Wouldn’t that car that’s about to hit her come from behind 🤔 (correction!) if you look at the thumbnail the internal door side is facing away from her, shes stood at the front of the car facing the back and pulling the door towards her. Who the fuck opens a car like that tough 🤔

[@speakfreeley4473]

Would be if it was Frank Spencer driving, seeking revenge for Betty leaving him.

[@sbabyskid-bx2xk]

100 Subs With No Videos? I’m from the U.K. I understand if you did that on a regular road a car from the other side would be coming towards you but she’s on the motorway there’s a barrier plus she’s pulled up on the hard shoulder so the only traffic coming towards her is traveling in the same direction so would hit her from behind

[@sbabyskid-bx2xk]

100 Subs With No Videos? Oh shit I just watched it back she walks round the front of the car and opens the door awkwardly. I thought she walked round the back of the car to get in

[@v00n2000]

Neil Innes as the bloke?

[@andydavid2257]

Should have frank spencer with betty in the ad oh betty been knocked a truck caal an aberlance betty 999

[@chriswaring5565]

PATRICK ALLEN NARATED THIS AD AND DID THE PROTECT AND SURVIVE VIDEO OOH! BETTYS SPLATTERED ACROSS THE MOTORWAY!!!!

[@andynixon2820]

Looks like Michelle dotrice .

[@danw1374]

Thats because it is her.

[@Hillzy_Eighty7]

@@danw1374 Well WAS her before she was hit by a truck

[@Drobium77]

I bet every single person on here has pretended to break down, on the hard shoulder , just to go for a piss??

[@danw1374]

Yep 😂

[@rachel7000rf]

slight issue- How could the woman face the lorry/van that was about to hit her? the traffic is going the wrong way!

[@danw1374]

rachel fleming I dont know which country you're from but here in the UK we drive on the left hand side.

[@Roadent1241]

It's not? You can see the traffic going towards and past her (from the right side of the screen to the left), and the traffic behind the barrier on the other side going left to right. That's how we drive in the UK.

[@SRDhain]

You're right. This is a continuity error. She walked towards the driver's side door , and then it cut to her walking towards the passenger side door, with the car facing TOWARDS the traffic flow. The giveaway is the door opening towards the camera. Funny, but memorable.

[@MajorT0m]

No no no NO! The traffic you're seeing is on the other carriageway! She is opening the driver's door and is about to get collected by a lorry travelling in her, ie the carriageway closer to the camera's, direction 👍

[@alisonmullins5202]

Sam you got to pay my new glassass

[@alisonmullins5202]

You did bake my glassass

[@girlsundpanzerundrailwaysg8580]

Does anyone else notice that old British cars are really similar to Soviet cars

[@ChrisHenniker]

Methinks it is.

[@reddyreddy2618]

To be fair, she seemed like a right nag, so probably for the best.

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

late 70s more like...judging by the quick glimpse of a Mark 1 Ford Granada

[@racelox]

She goes to the driver's side and then in the next shot she's opening the passenger door, the car is facing oncoming traffic...I'm confused.

[@ste1bro]

Thanks to the tight camera angle, it's a bit of an optical illusion. It's still the driver's side, the car is still facing the right way. But I was initially confused too!

[@MajorT0m]

That 'oncoming' traffic is in the other carriageway.