INFAMOUS 1959 OHIO STATE PATROL DRIVER SAFETY FILM “SIGNAL 30” XD47844

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Produced by Richard Wayman and narrated by Wayne Byers, “Signal 30“ is one of the most notorious driver’s education films ever produced. The title of the film is derived from a police code, referring to a fatal traffic accident. The film is comprised of actual, often gruesome footage taken immediately after the automobile accidents had occurred. The hope was that young drivers who saw the film, would literally be scared into taking a more cautious approach to driving. The film was made by the Highway Safety Foundation of Mansfield, Ohio. The film opens with the Ohio State Patrol logo (:06). The scene shows a car accident as a man hangs out from the passenger door (:24). A note informs viewers that the scenes captured are not staged though they had been filmed under adverse conditions (:48). A state highway patrol officer answers a call (1:08) over an accident resulting in two deaths. The officer calls for backup (1:35). The film is presented by the State Highway Patrol (1:59). It is narrated by Wayne C. Byers (2:22) who informs viewers the meaning of the code ‘Signal 30’ (2:25). Ohio’s winter landscape is pictured in the background as the police car arrives on scene (2:49). The first accident involves a double ‘signal 30’ (2:53). A truck moving cattle down the expressway collided with a passenger car of seven (3:09). The passenger car is pictured smashed (3:24). The passenger car driver ignored a stop sign (3:45) causing the accident. The same area where the accident had occurred is filmed (3:58) as cars fly past the stop sign (4:01). State highway patrolmen (4:18) work with model cars to demonstrate an accident. Patrolmen undergo physical trainings (4:30). A patrolman conducts checks on vehicles for safety factors (5:09); this is known as ‘spot checking’. Due to ignorance over speed limits, a collision occurred (5:56) resulting in two deaths as a truck driver flew 20 miles over the limit. The charred body of one of the drivers is removed (6:53). A passenger from another accident is viewed in a white stretcher injured though not seriously (7:29). The driver is shown standing, hardly affected from the accident (7:34). The driver’s vehicle had skidded after losing control, hitting an embankment, rolling through a fence and landing into a series of mailboxes (7:56). A post is seen driven through the center of the vehicle (8:16). The next accident involves a railroad crossing and a pickup truck (8:35). One farmer perished in this accident (8:47) as the gasoline tank exploded. The wreck is pictured piled against a rail car (8:56). Officers and emergency responders dig to pull out the farmer’s charred remains (9:34). A body sits jammed under a flipped vehicle (9:46). Many accidents involve a violation of a traffic rule (9:51). Men are pictured carefully lifting the vehicle from off the body here (10:13). Miraculously the man suffers only from serious and not fatal injuries (10:30). Ambulance lights are viewed flashing on a highway at night (11:06). The responding state patrol vehicle is zoomed in on (11:16). A seventeen-year-old boy is seen (11:21) pinned under a red convertible. Another body (11:43) receives medical treatment on the side of the road. Scenes from another accident show a man pinned between his car door and tree stumps (14:16). The man is loaded into a stretcher (14:58). Another driver; a football player, was killed in an accident caused by speeding (15:19). The car is smashed against a tree (15:43). Another accident caused by speeding (17:00). The female passenger survived, though the driver did not (17:16). A recording is heard of the woman in pain over her injuries (17:22). A hard-topped convertible is pictured flipped over (18:26). The wreckage from this accident had to be shoveled to the junkyard (18:51). A truck carrying thousands of pounds of steel pipe is seen (19:34) as the rig went out of control while going around a curve. The driver’s body is pictured mangled in the front seat (20:32). Two cars are viewed after a collision resulting in three deaths (21:27). Four women perish after the driver of one of the vehicles blows through a stop sign (22:37). The bodies are loaded into the ambulance (23:38). An officer arrives at the home of a woman whom he had previously delivered the news of her husband’s death to (24:47). She sadly tells the officer how her life has changed forever (25:51). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit