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features graphic footage of crashed automobiles and their horrifically injured and dismembered occupants. Despite its gruesome nature, the film later won the National Safety Council Award. It was followed by two sequels, entitled
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was an instant hit. But what his book calls "the first highway safety gore film" did win a National Safety Council Award and the endorsement of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
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success prompted Wayman and friends to start a for-profit production..."
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was the basis for a song of the same name by British band
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Index

Signal 30 (Mad Men)
Inform-Educate-Entertain
social guidance film
Highway Safety Foundation
Mansfield, Ohio
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Red Asphalt
an episode
Mad Men
The Who
The Who Sell Out
John Entwistle's
morbid curiosity
Public Service Broadcasting
Inform-Educate-Entertain
List of American films of 1959
ISBN
0786470771
"School of Wreck"
ISBN
978-1-4766-0657-6
ISBN
978-1-4766-0657-6
Polydor Records
"Public Service Broadcasting (@PSB_HQ) via Twitter"
Archived
Signal 30
YouTube
Signal 30
IMDb

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