Danger of death videos of the 90s

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Anyone remember?

Made me terrified as a child 🤣

The one about half cooked sausages on a Bbq.
The one about seatbelts needing fastened.
The one about not climbing pylons.
The one about smoking.
The one about crossing the roads.
The one about STDs.
The one about drugs.

All in primary school.

All with the message "IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL DIE"

I still daren't walk through a field with a pylon in it 😂 though it never stopped me smoking at 13.

Oh well.

I spent a large part of the 80s and 90s thinking that quicksand was going to feature more heavily in my life than it actually does 🤣

I remember being shown videos in school of what to do if you get caught in quicksand and assumed it was pretty common.

Yes, me too! I'm actually, in some ways, quite disappointed that I'm now in my early 40s and have never experienced a near-death incident involving quicksand.

Fear is a useful teacher.

The one with the ball going into the sub station scare the shit out of me!

Also one about being electrocuted on the trains!

They're all on YouTube. I watched them recently lol

The falling in a grain silo, kid getting foot trapped in railway track..... The nuclear ones - take your door off it's hinges and hide under it, threads

This one is terrifying. From the early 70s. Points out to children not to jump into flooded quarries.

Do kids still get these (an updated version)?

Flying kites into overhead wires and getting zapped...I'm still really careful about where I fly kites!

I immediately thought of the train tracks one. Clunk click seatbelts - scary but that campaign really did change things in terms of wearing seatbelts. Unlike in the US which is why they had to bring air bags into cars. There was one in more recent years “Sally knew her killer” about the teenager who didn’t belt up in the back when Mum did an emergency stop.

The Finishing Line (1977). Absolutely terrifying. Adults cheering children on as they hold a sports day on the railway line, with casualties galore.

The electricity pylons one was awful, it stayed in my head for years. I assume kids had less to occupy them back then so chose to climb pylons for fun 🤔

I remember the Green Cross Code videos fondly though

@WeDontShutUpAboutBruno I had this same thought this week. I really thought quicksand was going to feature heavily in my adult life.

I was a teen in the 90s and don’t remember any of these! Not sure if my school didn’t show them or if I just tuned out…

Oh yes!! Pylons and train tracks. And a particular one that I always remember is avoiding sticking your head out of the window of a moving train. Terrifying!

Yes to:

• quicksand


• randomly being set on fire - remember “stop, drop, roll”


• not sticking your head out of a train lest it hits a telegraph pole and gets knocked off


• definitely not trespassing on the rails!

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These used to give me nightmares 😱
particularly remember the silo one and dangers of playing on a building site..(didn’t stop me though 😂)
Threads was terrifying 😱
The AIDS advert was prolific in the late 80’s

Ditto. The ball in sub station rings a bell, but why would that be a necessary ad?

the link isn't working, I'd be interested to see these ads.

i remember "click clunk, put seatbelt on" but that wasn't scary.

Oh, and never saw anything about quicksand - London school though.

One about wearing rings on your fingers when playing sports… particularly graphic pictures of the skin peeled up the finger from the ring 😳

These weren't shown at school: they were shown between children's programmes in the afternoons between 4 and 5.45pm. In about the Mid 70s the tone changed to 'Green Cross Man' and Charlie says' but before then they really were the stuff of nightmares. Hence, duly terrified, children played out all day every day, fully aware that water, strangers, traffic and electricity were all things that were not to be trifled with.

I don't remember being shown any of these in the '90s except possibly one on fireworks but it wasn't graphic. I do remember being given the Roald Dahl railway safety books though. And being taken to an interactive safety event where various scenarios were set up.

I remember the pylon one and there was a train one where for some reason his laces gets caught on the railway line and he's trying to get his shoe and a train comes. I was about 5, talk about traumatised 🤣. Late 80s, I never played on railway lines or pylons though, so job done 😅.

...and trains 🙂

My DH remembers this one. Also 'Apache' about countryside/farm horrors. Both on YouTube.
Loved the Green Cross Code man. Anybody else remember The Tufty Club?