A Safe Ride On Your School Bus (1970)

Year Published: 1970

Description:

A classic 16mm reel that hits close to home for me. True story: in the winter of 1972 I survived a terrible school bus accident. It was in one of these very buses shown in the film, where every kid in every seat faced a solid steel bar that ran across the back of the seat in front of them, and of course no seat belts or anything like that. Well, one afternoon the school got dismissed early due to a blizzard, and on the ride home the bus collided head on with a PA State snowplow, which was basically a Mac dump truck loaded with salt with a 6' high steel plow mounted on the front, and through the collision the bus went airborne, rolled over, and landed on its side down an embankment in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the blizzard. Exiting the bus were stunned kids with missing rows of teeth, broken noses, busted arms, and all the like. As with every other crash I have been in (always as a passenger) I was completely unharmed due to my lightning fast natural reflexes, but the fact remains - those buses were never safe. They depended on the fallacy that no one would ever dare hit a school bus, and that no school bus would ever crash into anything. Well, they did. A lot. And that's what happened to me! Enjoy!!!
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Complete Record: A classic 16mm reel that hits close to home for me. True story: in the winter of 1972 I survived a terrible school bus accident. It was in one of these very buses shown in the film, where every kid in every seat faced a solid steel bar that ran across the back of the seat in front of them, and of course no seat belts or anything like that. Well, one afternoon the school got dismissed early due to a blizzard, and on the ride home the bus collided head on with a PA State snowplow, which was basically a Mac dump truck loaded with salt with a 6' high steel plow mounted on the front, and through the collision the bus went airborne, rolled over, and landed on its side down an embankment in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the blizzard. Exiting the bus were stunned kids with missing rows of teeth, broken noses, busted arms, and all the like. As with every other crash I have been in (always as a passenger) I was completely unharmed due to my lightning fast natural reflexes, but the fact remains - those buses were never safe. They depended on the fallacy that no one would ever dare hit a school bus, and that no school bus would ever crash into anything. Well, they did. A lot. And that's what happened to me! Enjoy!!! More about color correction on these films - https://youtu.be/OFlHP2XZADU Join Team FranLab!!!! Become a patron and help support my YouTube Channel on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/frantone #School #70's #film - Intro Music by Fran Blanche - Fran's Science Blog - http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings.html FranArt Website - http://www.contourcorsets.com