Online 'safety video game' targets truck-train crashes

USA Today Thursday 11th August, 2011

But for Operation Lifesavers Inc., an Alexandria, Va.-based organization that works to prevent collisions on and around railroad tracks, the crash was just a particularly tragic example of an all-too-common occurrence on the nation's roadways: Since the Reno crash, there have been at least four other fatal truck-train collisions across the USA, plus at least two other non-fatal crashes, according to OLI. Now, the group is offering professional drivers a short, online, interactive safety course designed to help them make sound decisions at railroad crossings. Since June 9, about 15,000 truck drivers have taken the ProDriver Safety Challenge (oli.org/ProDriver), OLI spokeswoman Marmie Edwards says. The group hopes to reach 100,000 drivers this year and eventually all professional truckers, who number about 3.5 million, according to the industry group American Trucking Associations.

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