Search Results for "road safety"

A primer on bicycle safety for beginning bike riders. Stresses that a bicycle is a vehicle and is subject to all the same rules and traffic regulations as the automobile.

Investigating deadly truck accidents and the fight over measures that could save lives.

A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.

They were 27 and 35 years old. They were both killed in the same spot, within the same month. The same botched work killed them. Eighteen people are called to provide an answer to a simple question: Why don't we do what we should? The answer might lie in the missing piece - the unknown story of the pothole, a trademark of Greek roads infrastructure.

Richard Massingham gives a comic demonstration of how to cross the road.

Shot with a big cowboy nod to the Western genre, this road safety film shows the danger of speeding on an unknown country road at night.

Colin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.

In a Swedish village, situated in a rural idyll, a father, mother and little daughter are preparing breakfast on a Sunday morning. The family is looking forward to the boat trip that is to follow. The little girl's thoughts are already completely on the water. But there is no sugar in the house, so the mother sends her little daughter to the neighbor across the street to quickly get some. Two villages further on, a young man is filling up his car with gas so that he can drive to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend. In their convertible, the young people feel blithe and free on the country road and race towards the village where the little girl is just crossing the street with the sugar to return home.

A journalist, investigating traffic violations in a city, comes across mysterious happenings and lands herself in a dangerous situation.

Produced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, this safety film discusses the dangers small or compact cars face on the road compared to large, luxury vehicles despite their growing popularity with consumers.

In the new world of high-speed highway driving, there are a host of new dangers to take into account.

A road safety lesson using puppets and animation kindergarten age children.

Stop Look and Listen is a 1967 sort comedy film written, directed by and starring Len Janson and Chuck Menville. It was mostly filmed in Griffith Park in pixilation [stop-motion photography].The film generates comedy by contrasting the safe and dangerous styles of two drivers who drive in the way made famous by Harold Lloyd: by sitting in the street and seeming to move their bodies as though they were automobiles. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Live Action.

“The Mystery Crash” discusses the dangers of drinking and driving especially as it pertains to the seemingly harmless “social drinker.” This film was produced by Jack Lieb Productions Inc, Chicago and sponsored by the National Safety Council. It is part of a series of films, with each episode describing a different element of driving and road safety.

"Help Is..." is a Canadian traffic safety film that encourages drivers to take first aid classes to be prepared for potential emergency situations.

This film shows the dangers of driving commercial trucks professionally as part of driver’s education. It displays various truck drivers; some cautious and others fatally dangerous.

A motorcycle safety film

Mickey and his friends take a close look at important street safety situations and tips.

This film instructs American Telephone & Telegraph Co. truck drivers on how to be safe drivers. It deals with motor vehicle safety and shows locations where most accidents occur. Concentration, control, and courtesy are higlighted as key components in defensive driving techniques and encourages each driver to accept responsibility for the safety of others as well as himself.

Three young commuter cyclists set out to bike from San Francisco to Orlando, interviewing crash victims, urban planners, activists and law enforcement to investigate what makes the U.S the most dangerous developed country for cyclists. Shot on location, the trio travel to each interview by bicycle, with cameras, tripods and microphones strapped to their front-racks. Carrying the stories of fellow cyclists killed on American roads, SPOKE is an adventure-tale that looks to empower users of the humble bicycle.

Short film about safe street crossing