RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Wheels of Tragedy (1963)

Before reality TV, we watched movies like this in school, in which the officers of The Ohio Highway Patrol prepare for accidents and share the re-enactments of how these ones happened, as well as the gruesome and gory aftermath of the real vehicular mayhem that ensued.

Directed by Richard Wayman, who also made Signal 30 and Mechanized Death, and written by Bill Bradley and Charles C. McCue, who also appear in the film as the highway patrol. That’s not typecasting, as they were actual cops.

If you think this is funny with the badly acted lead-ups, get ready to be shocked into silence. There are accidents with people stuck face first in windshields and no one asked for a release to ask them if they wanted filmed. Neither did the girl who drowned when two boys listened to rock and roll and drove into a ditch and then the water.

They showed these movies to get us to drive better. I never wanted to drive at all after seeing them,

You can watch this on YouTube.

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