Safer In Car Belts Aka Demonstration Crashes For Proof (1962)

Title reads: “Safer in Car Belts“. Alexandra Palace, London. Demonstration crashes for proof. Traffic in the centre of London. Travel shot from car at speed going along road. C/U driver at wheel. Travel shot at speed from car going along an arterial road. C/U driver at wheel. Travel shot from car at speed, the car draws up quickly at traffic lights behind another car. C/U traffic lights going green. Travel shot from car at speed. Panning C/U car’s wheels skidding. C/U driver ducking and laying over steering wheel. C/U from car as it crashes into lamppost. C/U smashed windscreen, driver flops over steering wheel. Various shots smashed up car. M/S policeman and other pushing car over, pan to broken glass in road. M/S Mr. Leather-Barrow’s car which was involved in collision with lorry. Mr. Leather-Barrow escaped with his life owing to safety belts. C/U smashed car. Panning C/U car driving at speed, it stops very sharply to demonstrate new type of safety belt. The driver opens the ca