Distracted Driver Film

A police department produced a film for teenagers in Wales, and an excerpt on the Internet has been viewed more than four million of times. In the video, made for $20,000, a driver’s cellphone distracts her and her car drifts into oncoming traffic. Several cars crash and by the end, her friends have been killed. The film’s director, Peter Watkins-Hughes, said, young people encouraged him to make it violent and truthful. American safety advocates, concerned about the dangers of texting while driving, have enjoyed a boost from an unlikely source: the chief constable of Gwent, a small county in Wales. The Gwent police department produced a film on the subject to be shown in Welsh schools this fall. And with zero promotion by the police, a gory, explicit four-minute excerpt from the film went viral, and has been viewed millions of times. (Tred Films via The New York Times)

Question: Did you see one of those gory crash films of yore that were designed to scare high schoolers into driving more carefully? Did it work in your case?