Recently I found, in YouTube, the whole set of episodes of a Spanish TV series from my childhood – “La Segunda Oportunidad” (“The Second Chance”). First broadcast in 1978, it dealt with road safety in a rather spectacular way. Each episode (roughly 10 minutes long) would focus on a certain aspect of driving, and illustrated the consequences of disregarding safety norms with rather spectacular accidents (staged for the cameras, of course, but really spectacular nonetheless).
The anchorman would say “this is what happened because <insert bad driving aspect here>. But let us give them a second chance”… Then they would run the footage of the accident backwards, going back in time before the accident, and then show what should have been done.
I remembered that the guy always made a point of saying, at the end: “we can give our protagonists a second chance … but, on the road, you will never have one.” Or words to this effect.
It really was impressive for 10-year old me 
And I was very happy to find that series again! The 1970s music, the 1970s fashions… Well, it felt nostalgic to me
I think that there was something similar on German TV from the 1960s to the 1990s… Was it called “Der 7. Sinn”, or something similar?
Incidentally… Filmed in 1977-1978, no special CGI effects (they didn’t exist at the time), no big trickery – all the crashes in the series were done for real. With the cars being driven by Alain Petit, professional “car wrecker” (cascadeur) who must have been one of the most insane individuals ever.
Let me share with you a couple of videos from this series. First, the credits sequence. VERY spectacular. Combine a very VERY nice Jaguar (or perhaps was it a Daimler? Don’t know) doing 145 kph (roughly 90mph) and hitting a 16-ton boulder head-on, with a voiceover that says: “Man is the only animal that stumbles twice on the same stone. How good would it be, at times, to have a second chance”.
(Trivia: For this series, they used cars that had been impounded by the police and had not been redeemed or sold in auction. This particular car had been brought into Spain by a British national who came to live in Spain, but because it was right-hand drive, at the time it was not allowed to be driven in Spain if you were to have it there permanently. The owner decided it was not worth the expense of readjusting everything and sold it for a song. The producers of the program snapped it up and used it for this amazing sequence. See the 16-ton boulder jump).
La Segunda Oportunidad - Cabecera - YouTube (Credits Sequence)
And now, a whole episode (less than 10 minutes long) about being careful when you drive at night, and why you shouldn’t (a) have a few (or more than a few) drinks beforehand, (b) think of empty avenues as highways, (c) think that traffic lights at night are just for decoration. Obvious, indeed, but it seems that a lot of people don’t get it. This episode has one of the most spectacular car crashes I’ve seen in my life. Poor Citroën DS, we hardly knew ye.
La Segunda Oportunidad - 02 - Mientras la ciudad duerme - YouTube (Episode #2)
Best sentence of this episode: “All that hurry has been left behind, forever. Who was responsible for the crash? Maybe both. It does not matter anymore. The graveyards are full of drivers who were not responsible of the crash they died in.”
Everything in Spanish with quite a bit of talky talk on the part of the narrator and the anchorman, but really, check those out.
Sometimes I think that this kind of TV programming should still be made.