ATA and National Safety Council to Demo Highway Safety Measures
Share the Road Program Visits Kansas City with Life-saving Highway Safety Tips Though up to 134,000 Vehicles Travel I-70 Through Kansas City Daily, Most Automobile Drivers are Never Taught What They can do to Avoid Initiating an Accident With a Tractor-Trailer Who: Professional truck drivers, the American Trucking Associations (ATA), The Safety & Health Council of Western Missouri and Kansas, the Missouri Highway Patrol, and the Kansas City Police Department. What: A demonstration of highway safety measures will be conducted for local news media, including "ride-alongs" in tractor-trailers, as part of the national Share the Road tour visiting Kansas City, MO. When: Thursday, April 22nd, 10:00 AM Where: SAIA, Inc., 1534 N. Jackson, Kansas City, MO (see driving directions below.) Summary: Professional truck drivers with millions of miles of accident-free driving, ATA, and The Safety & Health Council of Western Missouri and Kansas, will demonstrate safe driving measures key to reducing crashes on Kansas and Missouri highways. The demonstration will include truck ride-alongs for news reporters and photographers, and tips on blind spots, safe-merging techniques, and safe stopping and following distances. This highway safety program is critical for Kansas and Missouri drivers because: * 35% of all truck-involved highway fatalities occur in a truck's blind spots* * Most drivers were never taught how to share the road safely with trucks * Watching this demonstration will help reduce accidents Directions: From Kansas City take I-35 north. Take the Front Street exit before the river and go east. Go left on N. Jackson. The SAIA (formerly Clark Bros.) terminal is 1/2 mile on the left. About Share the Road: Share the Road (www.atasharetheroad.com), is a highway safety program that delivers life-saving messages to hundreds of U.S. cities and reaches millions of motorists annually, designed to educate automobile drivers about sharing the roads safely with trucks. The program is presented by members of America's Road Team, a team of professional truck drivers with millions of miles of accident-free driving on America's highways.
Tractor-trailers provided by SAIA, Werner Enterprises, Inc., and Overnite Transportation.
*Source: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration