During the latter stage of my high school stint, during which only about eight or nine lads from the sixth and seventh forms actually drove a car to school, they showed a safety film in the hall which had a title like 'Speed Kills'.
It was all about how the misuse of speed, and the inability to adopt the habits of care and attention, could be very deadly out there on the roads.
Roads which were occupied by about a third of the number of cars there are on them today, and cars which possessed about a third of the horsepower of those out there today.
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It showed a couple of crash scenes which were unsettling, and we'd cast a glimpse at the lads we knew had cars.