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"Branden J -Reading the Manual" (intakelake)
05/21/2015 at 19:55 • Filed to: None

Really cheap! With an interesting back story! (They were in a “fatal motor vehicle accident”)

So, there were originally off this car, right here:

Which as you can seen was involved in a “DUI crash.” I happened to get these rims because I was on the crew helping do moulage that day. If you don’t know what moulage is, it is the art of doing injury makeup, and is actually quite interesting. For the past 3 DUI crash events I’ve assisted with, my job has been to make one of the high schoolers involved look dead. Here’s a sample of my latest handiwork:

He had several pieces of glass in his forehead, a basal skull fracture (indicated by blood in the ears), a massive neck laceration with a huge piece of glass in it, and a large gash in his abdomen. (I made his mother cry, that’s usually how I can tell if it looks real enough or not)

Overall the event went good, they stage the crash, and the students come out, watching their fellow classmates bleed and scream in agony as they wait around 15 minutes for emergency crews to arrive. (15 mins is the average response time in rural areas) They listen to the kid pictured above scream and breathe his last breaths, as his friends plead with him to wake up. Emergency crews cut the car to pieces and pry the other 3 survivors out, leaving him there because he can’t be saved, one of the survivors is flown out by helicopter (yes they actually land one and put them in it, it’s awesome), while the other two leave in ambulances, and finally, the coroner arrives and declares him dead on arrival, and places him in a body bag as his mom comes rushing in, scrwaming and crying, having to be held back by law enforcement and the coroner, finally the students leave as they file past their friend, “dead” on the gourney to say their last goodbyes, as his “obituary” is read over the loudspeaker. Overall it is an extemely powerful event and if all the work I’ve done on any one has managed to save even one person from a similar fate, I would consider it a success. Here’s some other pictures of the event:

DISCUSSION (13)

Bandit > Branden J -Reading the Manual
05/21/2015 at 20:31

Oh, hey, check this out. I helped film this video of the production when I was in high school.

Branden J -Reading the Manual > Bandit
05/21/2015 at 20:34

Mock accidents are a powerful thing, if everything was as it should be there would be one at a very high school, it’s something that teenagers need to see, they need to at least experience a little bit of it before they learn the hard way.

Rainbow > Branden J -Reading the Manual
05/21/2015 at 20:44

For a few years a while ago, a rest area in SC just past the GA border would display real cars involved in real fatal accidents due to DUI, speeding, tiredness, etc. (this was too early for texting to be a thing)

It was pretty damned powerful to know that somebody actually died in there.

TheHondaBro > Branden J -Reading the Manual
05/21/2015 at 20:45

My HS did that. One year they had a riced Civic on campus that looked like it had crashed.

Branden J -Reading the Manual > Rainbow
05/21/2015 at 20:46

The last event I was at before this one was at my school, it was really hard to watch with it being my close friends instead of strangers.

Sam > Rainbow
05/21/2015 at 21:20

One of the junkyards by me occasionally has cars that were obviously involved in fatal accidents. We don’t go there very often.

Rainbow > Sam
05/21/2015 at 21:26

I’ve seen one that was caked in blood all over the inside before. It was... Not a pleasant sight.

Sam > Rainbow
05/21/2015 at 21:29

Honestly it isn’t the blood that gets me, it’s mostly the ones that are crumpled to the point that you know the occupant(s) were crushed. It just freaks me out.

Rainbow > Sam
05/21/2015 at 21:34

I saw a minivan like that. In the back, there were two fishing poles. One looked pretty fancy. The other was a little Spider-Man one.

I still don’t know how to react to seeing that.

NoahthePorscheGuy > Branden J -Reading the Manual
05/21/2015 at 22:07

this was kind of horrifying to see because a near-bye highschool just had 2 seniors die in a accident and the whole community is mourning.

Branden J -Reading the Manual > NoahthePorscheGuy
05/21/2015 at 22:15

I’m sorry for the loss, my cousin died at 17 in an accident quite a few years ago, that’s partly why I do this, it’s a shame to see lives ended so soon.

SALfan > Branden J -Reading the Manual
05/21/2015 at 23:19

When I was in my early teens, my cousin (in his late 20’s) was killed in an auto accident; he was driving drunk and going way too fast for conditions. The next day my father took my brothers and me to see what remained of his truck. I can still remember how badly the truck was mangled and how bloody it was, even after over 40 years. Very powerful message, especially since he was family and we were around him from time to time.

LJK0916 > Branden J -Reading the Manual
05/22/2015 at 02:03

We did one of these my senior year and freaked the whole school and all the parents out. We sourced an identical car to mine and another students at a tow lot and smashed them into one another so the damage would match. We had a very real looking wreck.