Summary

NJ State Motor Vehicle Commissioner Harold Hoffman introduces various car wreck scenarios

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 7108
Clip SR004176_02_01.mov
Date 1/1/1934
Title NJ State Motor Vehicle Commissioner Harold Hoffman introduces various car wreck scenarios
Description Title card: "RECKLESS DRIVING! Motor Vehicle Commissioner Hoffman of New Jersey gives vivid warning" / MCU Harold Giles Hoffman, Motor Vehicle Commissioner, New Jersey / MLS two cars (Model A types) collide after one veers into oncoming lane on two way street, two others avoid accident / MLS elevated view of car making wide turn and pulling into oncoming traffic, sideswiping another car and sending across curb and median / CU caution light / MLS car fails to heed light and t-bones another car / LS car tries to weave in and out of traffic, ends up causing a three car accident and damaged telephone pole / MLS gates close at RR crossing in foreground and cars pull up to them / MS engine of speeding train / VS car drives thru crossing gate, breaking it / VS passengers scramble out of car and out of the way just before train collides with car / VS truck makes wide turn and hits car, sending it over the curb and thru a fence / MS man jumps out of car speeding toward camera thru tall grass / LS now empty car speeds over side of cliff and crashes its way down to lower ground / Note: exact day not known
Personality Harold Hoffman
Country United States
Province/State New Jersey
City Trenton

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