operation lifesaver: education’s role in highway-rail safety helen m. sramek, oli 2008 midstates...
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Operation Lifesaver: Education’s Role in Highway-Rail Safety
Helen M. Sramek, OLI2008 MidStates Highway-Rail
Safety MeetingGrapevine, Texas, May 20, 2008
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Operation Lifesaver
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How time flies! May ‘07
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MidStates represent . . .
• 16 states across the middle of the country
• 34% of U.S. population
• 48% of rail U.S. rail trackage
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Highway Safety
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Highway SafetyStatistics
Motor vehicle crashes Annual U.S. casualties:
< 40,000 deaths < 2 million injuries
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Highway-Rail Safety
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Did You Know?
• Approximately every 2 hours in the U.S., a person or vehicle is hit by a train.
Railroad Safety
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Crossing Incidents 2,742
Crossing Fatalities 339
Crossing Injuries 1,012
Trespass Fatalities 477
Trespass Injuries 396
Preliminary 2007 U.S. Rail Safety Statistics Source: Federal Railroad Administration
The Rail Safety Problem, 2007
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MidStates Safety Improves
Category 2006 2007
Xing Incidents 1,352 1,263 Xing Deaths 188 148 Xing Injuries 528 484 Trespass Deaths
168 147
Trespass Injuries
189 173
Preliminary 2007 U.S. Rail Safety Statistics Source: Federal Railroad Administration
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2007 MidStates Statistics
Category Total % of U.S.
Xing Incidents 1,263 46% Xing Deaths 148 44% Xing Injuries 484 48% Trespass Deaths
147 31%
Trespass Injuries
173 44%
Preliminary 2007 U.S. Rail Safety Statistics Source: Federal Railroad Administration
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Grade Crossing Trends
Successes despite:• Increases in both
number of cars and miles driven per year
• Resurgence in freight rail
• Increase in commuter rail
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Increases in Passenger RailAmerican Public
Transportation Association (APTA) reported that in 2007:
• Light rail ridership increased 6.2%
• Commuter rail ridership increased 5.5 %
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The Human Toll
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Vehicle-Train Collisions: Tragedies that can turn catastrophic
• Disruption to communities: negative impact on traffic, commerce
• Impact on train crews
• The most preventable of crashes: we know where they could occur!
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What’s New“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Sir Francis Bacon
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Student Drivers
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New OL Driver Ed Video: “Look to Live”
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New OL Driver Ed VideoProvides flexibility
and accessibility:
• Web component• Driver education
instructors can incorporate it in their programs
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“Look to Live” Driver Ed Video• Will post segments of
video on
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Professional Drivers
• Truck-trailer rigs in 2007 were involved in 17.6 % of vehicle-train collisions
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OL Presenter’s Guide
• In 2009, we will update our presenter’s guide
• Will include new signage from MUTCD
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Engineering Focus
• Later this year, a subgroup of OLI’s engineering committee will look into quiet zones
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Results“You can't build a reputation
on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford
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Operation Lifesaver – ResultsIn 2007, OL reached:
• More than 3.7 million people via OL state programs, training and events nationwide
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OL Driver EducationIn 2007, OL reached:
• More than 198,000 new drivers in 6,500 Driver Ed presentations
• Nearly 104,000 high school students in 1,130 presentations
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YouTube Generation
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YouTube GenerationOLI objected to 3 videos:
• “Kid Films Himself on Train Tracks”
• “The Most Stupid Stunt of All Time?”
• “Guy Lies Under Train as it Passes”
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YouTube Success!
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Light Rail Education
• OL is now providing its safety training to transit agencies in major metropolitan areas
• Pilot project with Austin Capitol Metro
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OL Safety Messages
Austin Capital Metro’s web page/poster
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New Key Safety Tips pamphlet
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Why OL is Important
• A proven model for collisions, injuries and fatalities
• A success story within the traffic safety community
• Crash statistics support this
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Another Challenge –Pedestrian Rail Trespassing
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Educating the Media• Step up efforts to
reduce trespass incidents
• Media images romanticize dangerous behavior
Local newspaper insert
Readers’ Digest
USA Today
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Operation Lifesaver
Strengthening ties with the engineeringcommunity
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Save the Date!2008
Operation Lifesaver Symposium &
Training Seminars
Cincinnati Marriott at RiverCenter
July 21-23, 2008