USA Today article touts Operation Lifesaver ProDriver Challenge

WASHINGTON, DC, August 12, 2011 – USA Today highlights Operation Lifesaver’s newest education tool for professional drivers, the ProDriver Challenge, in a story on recent deadly collisions between big trucks and trains. The article, which calls the ProDriver Challenge an “online safety video game,” features quotes from truck drivers who have found this tool useful in preparing them for encountering crossings on the road.

The article also quotes Marmie Edwards, Operation Lifesaver, Inc. vice president of communications, who explains that, in the ProDriver Challenge’s simulated driving environment, “drivers are exposed to worst-case scenarios that require quick thinking and critical decision-making.”

Operation Lifesaver hopes to reach 100,000 drivers in the program’s first year, with the goal of reducing deadly truck-train crashes.

About Operation Lifesaver

Operation Lifesaver, Inc. is a national, non-profit safety education group whose goal is to eliminate deaths and injuries at railroad crossings and along railroad rights of way. Operation Lifesaver has programs in all 50 states, with trained and certified presenters who provide free safety talks to community groups, school bus drivers, truck drivers and student drivers to raise awareness around railroad tracks and trains. For more information, and to request a free safety presentation, visit www.oli.org.     

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