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ROADS SAFETY CAMPAIGNS * USA
* Ohio patrol targets big-rig/auto spacing
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is waging a statewide campaign aimed at cutting down on fatal and serious-injury accidents between big rigs and smaller vehicles
Columbus, OH,USA -The Trucker -20 Aug 2007: -- ... Lt. Robert D. Warner, a spokesman for the OSHP’s Licensing and Commercial Standards at Columbus, Ohio, said on Aug. 15 that statistics show some 70 percent of all such accidents “are caused by a non-commercial motor vehicle driver"... Warner noted that “based on provisional statistics through May of this year, there were 58 commercial vehicle-related crashes resulting in 62 deaths in Ohio. Of those, 81 percent were the fault of the non-CMV driver. Violations including excessive speeding, improper lane changing, and not leaving sufficient space around a CMV will be strictly enforced,” stressed... Warner said: "Troopers are placed in the troublesome corridors to aggressively enforce crash-causing violations of non-CMVs driving near CMVs”... Those corridors in Hamilton and Franklin counties are be supplemented by troopers from the OSHP’s motorcycle units. Aviation resources are also used in conjunction with officers on the ground...
* Anti-drunk driving campaign preceded by advertising blitz
Arlington,VA,USA -The Trucker -20 Aug 2007: -- The message is clear: if you drive drunk, you’ll be arrested and prosecuted... State highway safety and law enforcement agencies nationwide are waging war against drunk driving and their efforts are being highlighted with a massive advertising blitz... To underscore the importance, representatives of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), gathered outside the Arlington County Courthouse in Virginia on Aug. 20... The enforcement crackdown, known as “Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest,” includes sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols as well as an $11 million national television and radio campaign. The timing of the crackdown, which will span the last weeks of summer vacation and include the Labor Day holiday weekend, is a heavy travel time and period of increased drunk driving fatalities and injuries...
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