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Jawdropping road safety ad with dark twist goes viral

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  • 18 Jul 2017
Jawdropping road safety ad with dark twist goes viral
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A road safety ad from South Africa has resurfaced and gone viral on YouTube after luring you in with a funny stream of clips, before a terrifying point is made at the end.

It starts out looking innocent enough - clips of people walking and texting on their phones bump into people and object while completely distracted.  

One smashes her phone across the road after bumping into a fellow pedestrian. Another trips and falls into a pond. Others walk straight into poles, doors, and bus shelters because they’re too engrossed in their phones to pay attention to their surroundings. It’s hard to not laugh at these people making fools of themselves.

Woman walks into a door

A woman walks straight into a glass.

It Can Wait Campaign
Man trips over crates after texting

A man trips into a pile of crates after texting while driving.

It Can Wait Campaign
Man falls down stairs

A man fell down the stairs because he was texting while walking.

It Can Wait Campaign

The message ‘you can’t even text and walk’ pops up on the screen, and then suddenly we’re in a car with a driver, who is looking down at a phone, at the second she is involved in a horrible collision which causes the car to roll leaving the woman dangling upside down from her seat. It’s graphic, and a stark contrast to goofy opening scenes.

RELATED: This surprising group of Aussies is the worst when it comes to checking phones and driving

A final message asks why, then, do we text and drive? 

You can't even text and walk

As part of the #itcanwait campaign, the video makes an important message about the dangers of texting while driving. Since 2009 mobile phone users have been texting more than calling, 

It may seem a trivial thing to glance down at the phone while driving, to check your map or to see who just messaged.  Some would consider it simply multi-tasking. But as the creators of the #itcanwait campaign explain, ‘the concept of multi-tasking is a dangerous myth.’ 

RELATED: Mum pleads guilty to causing crash that killed her son when she checked her phone while driving

‘As the National Safety Council points out, brain activity in the areas that process moving images decreases by over 33% when we are talking on our phone. This means that we effectively become partially blind when we use our cell-phone while driving. 

‘There is no call, and certainly no text message, so important that it is worth a human life: it can wait.’

RELATED: Driver crashes car into a river after looking away to check map on phone

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