Will Bloody Texting PSA Get The Message To Teens?

[jason]

Texting behind the wheel qualifies as irresponsible and completely stupid. There's even a word for it: intexicated. But is a gory British public service announcement going to reach kids who believe they are immortal?

Be warned: the four-minute PSA is extremely graphic, showing not only the realistic bloody injuries of three pretty teenage girls, but also an unresponsive infant in a car seat and a preschooler asking her unconscious and bleeding parents to wake up.

Mike Stout, director of the division of traffic safety for the Illinois Department of Transportation, said that he doesn't know if this kind of message would deter teens from texting behind the wheel -- and he wouldn't take the risk of trying to find out.

"This is way too gory," Stout told ParentDish. "...sometimes you have to push the envelope, but if you put this on TV, you'd have no control over who your audience was. Younger kids could see it, and I know some teens that it wouldn't affect at all."

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Will Bloody Texting PSA Get The Message To Teens? - ParentDish




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[Ashlar2006]

I watched a special on this very subject . It had people who lost family members to people who were not only texting but just talking on a cell phone while driving . I was run off the road into the grass medium by a man who swerved into my lane while dialing his cell phone driving down the highway , and he was a local cop in his squad car . I called his higher ups to complain and was told to mind my own buisness .