Akron, Ohio - November 13, 2003 - Thousands of lives are lost and millions of people are injured each year in highway accidents. Roadway Express and the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) have partnered to create an educational video entitled, "Sharing the Road Safely with Commercial Vehicles," in an effort to inform drivers of highway safety. Both Roadway Express and the OSHP believe that if drivers learn the facts and take personal responsibility, both cars and trucks can share the road safely.
"Sharing the Road Safely with Commercial Vehicles" is intended to provide highway safety facts to passenger-car drivers, who have been found to be the cause of the vast majority of accidents between cars and trucks. Most accidents occur because drivers fail to stay in their lane or run off the road, drive too fast for the conditions, fail to obey signs or signals, don't yield to the right of way, or are not paying attention.
The video shares the following safety tips:
Copies of "Sharing the Road Safely with Commercial Vehicles" will be distributed to law enforcement agencies to use in drivers' education programs as well as to Roadway Express drivers who make presentations to the public.
Roadway Express and OSHP have worked together for more than six years to communicate the "share the road" message to the public. Roadway Express drivers work with the OSHP to train every cadet class in the safe and proper way for troopers to stop commercial vehicles. In 2001, the partners developed their first joint-effort video: "How to Safely Stop a Commercial Vehicle," which was intended to increase the safety of law enforcement officers when pulling over commercial vehicles.
