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Motorway Fog was a short animated Public Information Film which was first shown in the UK in 1970.

It was made for the Central Office of Information by Richard Taylor Cartoons, an independent company that produced a number of animated PIFs in the 1970s and 1980s, including the legendary Charley Says series and Protect and Survive.

It begins with a man feeding a large joint of meat to a crate full of hungry alligators. As he does so he is dragged in by the creatures, only to be eaten and spat out as a pile of bones.

The voiceover says:

"If a man, with dangerous animals to feed, went about it like this... You would not be surprised at the results."

The action then switches to a fog-bound motorway, where cars are speeding into the distance. There is a squeal of tyres as they crash unseen in the gloom, followed by the wail of an ambulance siren as wreckage is strewn around the carriageway.

The voiceover continues:

"Then why on earth when it's foggy do you drive down the motorway like this, straight into situations you can't see? After all, it may not just be your neck!"

This cartoon was shown on British television over an astonishingly long period, even when taking into account that PIFs from the 1970s were often shown well into the 1980s. ITV had a habit of showing it in the early hours of their schedules during 1996, and it appeared on BBC1 after the late night weather as late as March 1999, giving it a life span of some 29 years.

Motorway Fog is available on Charley Says... Volume 1, which was released by Network DVD in 2001.