Title: Street Racing: Fast, Furious & Deadly (KIDS
AND CARS, PART 3)
Producer: Adam Wilkenfeld
Feed: CWKN # 29, July 18, 2001
Stations: CWK
Time: 1:44
Status: Final
Suggested Lead: THE MOVIE “THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS” WAS A BOX
OFFICE HIT. BUT AS YOUNG PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TEST THEIR CAR’S LIMITS …
MANY WIND UP SERIOUSLY HURT, OR WORSE. STREET RACING IS THE FOCUS IN PART THREE
OF OUR CONNECTING WITH KIDS SERIES, “KIDS AND CARS.”
<<PKG>>
NATS: "I got one. This is my third one, in the past year”
NARR: THESE TICKETS ARE A BADGE OF HONOR …
NATS: (burning rubber)
NARR: … AND THE ULTIMATE
ADRENALINE RUSH SEEMS WORTH THE ULTIMATE
RISK …
NATS: (mustang does donut)
SUPER: Rashard/Street Racer (:22)
“I know, anything can happen, nobody’s promised anything. You can be
here one second, and gone the next. It’s just that when I get behind the
wheel, and I know that I’m racing, I’m willing to die and I’m willing
to accept that.”
NATS: “Well it’s your standard 95 V-Tech Prelude, 2.2 liter, 4 cylinder.”
NATS: “I’ve got the five point racing harnesses”
NATS: “And then I put a hybrid T3T4 Turbo with an F-MAX kit”
NATS: “I mean when you hear something start up and you hear it rumble, it
just kinda gets your blood boiling a little bit, and you are just like Ahh.”
NARR: BUT… THE FASTER THE CAR, THE MORE LETHAL THE
WEAPON.
AMONG TEENS WHO DRIVE, THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IS CAR ACCIDENTS.
SUPER: Curtis Potts/Age 20(:57)
“One of my buddies, I don’t know if he’s out of the hospital yet,
but he was going down Serling Highlands uh, I’m not going to say the speed,
but he was coming around it, and uh, he just went right for the tree. He said,
(slaps hands together)"
NARR: WITH ADJUSTMENTS UNDER THE HOOD … AND NITROUS
OXIDE IN THE TRUNK, THESE KIDS TRANSFORM ORDINARY CARS INTO RACING
MACHINES.
SUPER: Len Pagano/Safe America Foundation (1:18)
“Whether it’s a mother or a father, I think they need to be involved
in every step of that transformation. So they don’t just say well, they're
just goofing around in the garage, and leaving the young adult driver to kind
of explore on his or her own.”
NARR: AND REMIND THEM, HE SAYS, THAT THE MOST DANGEROUS
THING IN THEIR LIVES IS… A CAR.
NATS: “What’s up buddy, how you doing?”
NARR: I’M STACEY DEWITT CONNECTING WITH KIDS.
SUGGESTED TAG: EXPERTS SAY, IT’S IMPORTANT
FOR PARENTS TO TALK TO KIDS ABOUT DRIVING SAFETY … EVEN BEFORE TEENS LEARN
TO DRIVE. FOR MORE ON THAT, LOG ON TO (LOCAL URL) AND CLICK THE CONNECTING WITH
KIDS ICON.