Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "PeriscopeFilm" channel.

  1. These scenes were mostly filmed by a young man with a film camera that started going out on calls with a highway officer. He often helped with recovery. When the police dept. Saw the films, they asked him to make them for police training purposes. I read about this in a book on mental health films. He must have had nerves of steel. Later, he added sound and the horrible audio of people screaming their last breath in agony was used in several films. Sometimes you see the same footage used in different movies like this but it is all real, unfortunately. People have not changed much. There were good and bad drivers, reckless kids and safe ones. One thing to remember is that a lot of people passed their ten and twenty year old cars to kids, so in the 50s and 60s, there were cars on the road from the thirties. In some rural areas, people were still driving model Ts! Tests done on old cars with crash test dummies found that fatalities were significantly higher than in the shock absorbing cars of today. Even though there was usually considerably more bulk in the older cars, it was unforgiving steel and your body would take the shock. Most people did not wear seatbelts and there were no shoulder straps. No 911, no paramedics. All those people pulling victims out of cars were compromising neck and back injuries. They had no choice, but believe me, as far as medicine goes, THESE are the good old days!
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