Time’s up for drug drivers in new Motor Accident Commission campaign via KWP! Adelaide
A new integrated campaign via KWP! Advertising for the Motor Accident Commission of South Australia (MAC), aims to reduce the incidence of drug driving on South Australian roads.
The campaign is appearing on television, radio, online, out-of-home and on MAC’s network of roadside billboards throughout regional South Australia.
MAC General Manager of Road Safety, Michael Cornish says the frequency of fatal crashes where drivers and riders are testing positive to illegal drugs is on the rise. Says Cornish, “Around 24% of those killed in road crashes over the last two years returned a positive test. Drug driver detection rates are also on the rise with positive results being returned in around 9% of tests compared with 2.5% in 2008.”
MAC is the voice of road safety in South Australia and while they do not condone the use of illegal drugs, they see a compelling need to provide information around the length of time drugs stay in your system and can be detected by police drug driving tests.
“We’re certainly not saying it’s okay to take drugs but people are taking drugs and we just want them to stay off the road. For their sake and the sake of all road users,” adds Cornish.
Says KWP! Account Director, Tristan Glover: “By educating the public about how long drugs stay in the system, we can hopefully stop people from drug driving and prevent drug related fatalities on our roads.”
Agency: KWP! Advertising, Adelaide
Creative Director: James Rickard
Creative Team: Corey Swaffer, Michael Gagliardi
Account Team: Tristan Glover, Carmel Alfano
Strategist: David O’Loughlin
Agency Producer: Georgina Toole
Director: Grant Lovering
Producer: Lincoln Wogan
Production House: Resin
Sound Studio: Final Sound (Craig Conway), Mattrixx (Matt McKenzie-Smith)
Retouching and 3D: Limehouse creative
Head of Art: Fiona Beauchamp
Finished Artists: Nigel Wapper, Dan Parsons
Client Team: Richard Blackwell, Julia George
7 Comments
If you were involved in making this ad.
People are losing their licenses and getting criminal records for doing drugs days before they actually drive.
These laws are criminal.
they want their really soft hitting ad campaign back.
and forget 5 hours…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-02/man-caught-drug-driving-days-after-smoking-cannabis-acquitted/7133628
Dust of our old cannes reels we have a tv ad to make!
https://vimeo.com/40519656
Surely this is a step in the right direction
it’s an educate to motivate message
NSW doesn’t have a policy of informing people about the length of time a drug remains psycho-active for and thus continues with the police state revenue raising model… education Is the ONLY answer IMHO
as for the creativity, well, this doesn’t set any new bars for mine, but I’ll leave the vitriol for the naysayers
This is as bad as working for a tobacco company. KWP, have some morals and drop these fascist liars as a client. The tests don’t work, the laws are bullshit and you are supporting the whole thing. Shame on you.
Given the comments the education isn’t working well.. The original aids ad made more sense at least. Made better too obviously
A very silly analogy.