History Film / OnlyStwpdCowzTxtNDrive

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* OhCrap: Emma survives the initial collision as she and Cow exchange looks. Emma turns around ... and barely has time to register this look as the third car involved in the accident crashes into the passenger-side door, the impact of which kills her. [[note]](In the UK, the passenger side door is on the left side, as opposed to the driver being on the left in the United States and Canada.)[[/note]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Lucky Luke'', an educational film that Gwent Police made in the 1980s, in which a boy causes a terrible accident while joyriding. In the United States, one candidate could be ''Joy Ride: An Auto Theft'', a 1976 driver's education movie also about a deadly accident while four teenagers are joyriding in a stolen vehicle.

* PleaseWakeUp: During the crash scene, a little girl – a passenger in one of the cars involved in the accident, where both of her parents were killed – who asks one of the first witnesses on the scene "Why won't Mommy and Daddy wake up?"

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Jules' and Emma's respective sets of parents lose their daughters in the crash.

''Only Stwpd Cowz … '' – similar in format to the American Series/AfterschoolSpecial – tells the fictional story of Cassie "Cow" Cowan, 17, causing a deadly accident on a highway near [[UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} Tredegar, South Wales]]. Four people, including two passengers in her vehicle, are killed in the collision. The movie was shown in many British, and eventually American, high schools to counter the growing trend of drivers who text while behind the wheel. Special effects were used to create a realistically horrific crash scene, which takes up four minutes of the film.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Lucky Luke'', an educational film that Gwent Police made in the 1980s, in which a boy causes a terrible accident while joyriding.
* TeenPregnancy: A lot of drama is milked from the fact that Jules had just found out she was pregnant.

Jules and Emma, both 17, are killed in the collision, along with the two parents of a baby and his older sister in the Mondeo, while the lone driver of the Fiesta is seriously injured. Cow is paralyzed in the crash – at one point, she nearly dies but is resuscitated – but will eventually recover. Much of the rest of the film deals with the consequences of Cow's actions – the grief-hardened parents of Cow's friends planning their funerals, the revelation that Cow was breathalyzed just minutes before the accident (although Cow was sober) and the entire Tredegar community ostracizing the Cowans for causing a tragedy.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Cow was eventually sentenced to seven years in prison for what's called "death by dangerous driving" (the apparent British equivalent of the United States' vehicular homicide). Also, the parents unsuccessfully tried to sue Cow and her family for damages.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: For a movie that is supposed to be targeted to teen-agers and shown in schools, there is a surprising number of [[Main/ClusterFBomb f-bombs]] and at least one instance where the girls [[Main/FlippingTheBird uses the middle finger]] at Jules' ex-boyfriend (in a scene set at a drive-thru of a fast-food restaurant). After the crash, Cow is called a "horrid bitch" by a complete stranger, who visits her hospital room just to verbally assault her. Then again, British television and schools may not be as restricted by censorship laws as the U.S.

Cow's attention focused on typing a response, the car drifts over the center line of the highway and into the path of an oncoming car. Cow sees it ... TOO LATE, CRASH!!!!

Jules and Emma, both 17, are killed in the collision, along with the two parents of a baby and his older sister. Cow is paralyzed in the crash – at one point, she nearly dies but is resuscitated – but will eventually recover. Much of the rest of the film deals with the consequences of Cow's actions – the grief-hardened parents of Cow's friends planning their funerals, the revelation that Cow was breathalyzed just minutes before the accident (although Cow was sober) and the entire Tredegar community ostracizing the Cowans for causing a tragedy.

* TitleDrop: Cow says the film's longer title to herself when she finally realizes the consequences of heactions.

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Because of the car crash, the second act focuses on the Cassie being operated on, while Emma's and Jules' parents learn of the deaths of their daughters.

* GetOut: Mr. Williams [Emma's father] kicking Cow's parents out of his house when they try to offer their condolences. Williams, who is in a grief- and alcohol-fueled state of rage when he sees the Cowans, says he does not want their sympathy before he insults them and tells them to never come near their family again or he'll kill them.

''Only Stwpd Cowz … '' – similar in format to the American Series/AfterschoolSpecial – tells the fictional story of Cassie "Cow" Cowan, 17, causing a deadly accident on a highway near Tredegar, South Wales. Four people, including two passengers in her vehicle, are killed in the collision. The movie was shown in many British, and eventually American, high schools to counter the growing trend of drivers who text while behind the wheel. Special effects were used to create a realistically horrific crash scene, which takes up four minutes of the film.