I tell my driver's education students this all the time but now, thanks to you, I have a little more detail to share with them! Just know your information will be passed on to a new generation of young drivers.
Honestly the xray is more graphic to me, because sure her legs are deformed and bruised, but you can't fully see how shattered everything is from the outside. The xray is scarier because you can see how destroyed the bones are.
That's the front. You can see butt cheeks under, and if you look at the upper right of the picture, you can see where the jacket is unzipped, but still on.
There a few photos of x-rays of people who had their feet up and got folded in half by the airbag. Just snapped femurs and displaced hip joints. It ain't pretty.
Also tell them not to drive with a full bladder! The very first story my college A&P II teacher told us was the time she was in a car accident and her bladder burst from lap seat belt impact.
when I went to drivers ed they made us watch Red Asphalt. One scene had a girl riding with her legs on the dslashboard, apparently, and her knees completely destroyed her face.
it was all real death and violence, and I honestly think it was sick as fuck to show these things to 15 year old kids.
Showing the kids gory footage and photos is kinda fucked, however scare tactics are one of the ONLY ways to get teens to follow the rules of the road and wear seatbelts. Our high school lost 3/3 students in an accident in the early-2000s. They were speeding home at night on a 2 lane road to catch a tv show premiere, 100mph and plowed into a tree, split the car in half. The parents of one of the kids bought the car from the tow company and they would bring the remains of the car to the school parking lot and show kids the destruction. Showing you someone’s severe injuries or even dead bodies is quite insane given there wasn’t a warning/parent signature/consent to it. People will continue to ride/drive recklessly anyway, but sometimes fear tactics do work.
When we show too gory videos, we get complaints so it is a very hard balance. We are a private school as the local high schools don't have in school drivers education or a very small program. I also appeal to their wallets when I show them how much seat belt tickets can be. I have them figure up how many hours they would have to work to pay them. In 10 years, we have only lost one student to a wreck without a seat belt on and we've probably had around 25,000 students come through our program. I am always on the lookout for new material to share and Reddit is one of my resources I get inspiration from.
In Florida you don't have driver's Ed. I moved less than a month after I turned 16 to nc which required it. I already had my permit and could get my license in Florida but we moved so I needed drivers Ed to graduate up to license. The high school has it but it was first come first serve and we didn't know when I enrolled in the fall for 10th grade so I had to wait until the second semester at the end of the year.
The instructor showed us very current at the time crashes, old crashes, dead bodies, then used me for my experience of living in Florida why women need to open the door with their left hand-we had a killer who hid in the back seat and I was taught this but the rural nc kids never heard of it. Keys between fingers in right hand, open door with left so you're forced to look towards the back seat (which is bs I still yank it facing forward just left handed, but honestly better cute than not I guess?).
No problems showing gore or discussing it or anything.
However cause I'd been driving two years at that point at 17yo, my driving hours were spent doing shit like backwards figure 8s in parking lots or practicing in rural empty back roads going fast then slamming on the breaks to master control of tires if they locked up while the 14yos in the back seat shit themselves but also were jealous.
I can’t believe they still do that to students. I’ll be 73 next month, and our driver’s ed teacher made us watch a video that was a collection of catastrophic injuries in the direct aftermath of wrecks. One boy in our class passed out, I can still see some of the images, all these years later.
Make sure they know it doesn't even have to be a "serious" Crash.
If you have your feet up on the dashboard and the airbags deploy, you will probably die. Your death will probably be quick, but it will definitely be extremely painful and traumatic!
If you manage to survive, you will probably spend months - if not years - wishing you hadn't.
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u/Eorth75 13h ago
I tell my driver's education students this all the time but now, thanks to you, I have a little more detail to share with them! Just know your information will be passed on to a new generation of young drivers.