# Remember this 1960’s drivers’ safety PSA?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** commercials-ads\
**Created:** [May 15, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184 "2021-05-15T20:01:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184/1 "2021-05-15T20:01:25Z")

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POV through the windshield driving on a highway:

Voiceover “Guess who (man’s name/woman’s name ran into the other day?”

-Head-on collision into another car with two passengers-

“(different man’s name/woman’s name)”

I remember it from among similar PSAs as significant for two features of the Silent Generation: their excellent “sick” comedy (Lenny Bruce, Nichols & May); and how married couples comprised the essential social unit (e.g. “Newhart’s Sam and Janet evening”) of their era.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184/2 "2021-05-15T20:52:08Z")

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I think they were Sam and Gladys and Hank and Marilyn. Anybody remember differently?

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184/3 "2025-04-20T19:06:42Z")

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I think this was from Ireland’s Department of Environment (DOE) or the UK’s THINK! campaign (not sure) but I cannot find a video of the one you are describing. The Irish ones were [pretty gruesome](https://youtu.be/Wv1rKHGeMRk) (to the point of being banned till late at night so kids couldn’t watch them).

**NOTE:** The linked video above is upsetting. Watch at your own risk.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184/4 "2025-04-21T03:47:12Z")

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I switched it off in less than ten seconds. I could see where it was headed immediately.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184/5 "2025-04-21T08:41:58Z")

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I don;t remember the names but I do remember the commercial.

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184/6 "2025-04-21T16:23:55Z")

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Thanks for the vote of confidence @Baker

[This memory-hole excavation took almost nine years to solve,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ready-to-go-z-12-hows-your-perlinger-fu/633203/11) but eventually bore fruit.

Now if I could find that old Alka Seltzer commercial with Mike Kellin getting queasy after eating “Beef-o-Rancho”

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184/7 "2025-04-22T04:21:35Z")

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Well, someone on the Dope once helped me find out what episode of Lost in Space was playing on June 8, 1966