- Anvilicious: The film and ones like it of that era are not subtle about what unsafe driving can lead to. Many commenters, particularly those who viewed them as part of their own driver's education, seem to take a "some anvils need to be dropped" view and have expressed a desire for a modern take on the concept.
- Nightmare Fuel: Plenty of it:
- The goriest of the scenes included a fiery collision on a narrow state highway between two loaded semitrailer trucks, where both drivers are killed (their charred bodies are shown being removed) and a truck driver — on a late-night run trying to make deadline on a load of 20 tons (40,000 pounds) of steel pipe — crushed against the steering wheel and dashboard of his truck by the load, which had shifted after he apparently fell asleep behind the wheel and drove off the road note .
- Although no death was involved, there is also footage of several cars not only failing to stop for a stop sign but not even slowing down at an intersection where a deadly wreck had just happened; once, one of the cars clears the intersection mere seconds before oncoming traffic passes through the intersection, and a few minutes later, several pre-adolescent boys are shown riding their bikes and failing to stop for the stop sign, again barely avoiding traffic that had the right-of-way.
- Tear Jerker:
- The final story (after the 12 accident vignettes are shown) has a patrol officer interviewing the widow of an accident victim from about a year earlier, talking about how her life changed after her husband was killed in an accident.
- The death of the young truck driver can also qualify for some due to the sad music played over the footage.
- Values Resonance: As gruesome and Anvilicious as the film is, and with the safer design of modern cars, its message about the importance of safe driving is still a very important one.
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