INFAMOUS DRIVER’S EDUCATION SCARE FILM HIGHWAY OF AGONY 61704

Support Our Channel : One of the all time most infamous of the highway safety scare film genre, HIGHWAY OF AGONY was made by Highway Safety Films of Mansfield, Ohio. This was the filmmaking arm of the Highway Safety Commission, an organization responsible for haunting the dreams of an entire generation of young drivers. In this era, when safety belts were not mandatory and air bags were yet a distant dream, and things like disc brakes and powered steering had yet to be widely adopted, America’s highways were the scene of daily carnage. Part of the problem, as you can see in the film, was the fact that the automobiles of the 1940s-60s were not built to survive accidents. Filled with white sheet covered corpses and bloodied, mangled survivors, and images of shattered steel and torn rubber, “Highway of Agony“ remains a chilling reminder that speed and inattention -- can kill. While the film is full of various accident footage -- all of it shockin
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