About North Carolina Operation Lifesaver
What is Operation Lifesaver?
Operation Lifesaver is a program designed to help save your life at the most dangerous spot on any highway or road -- the highway-rail grade crossing. Operation Lifesaver is an active, continuous public information and education program to help prevent and reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities by improving driver performance at the nation's approximately 270,000 public and private highway-rail grade crossings and on rights-of-way. To achieve its mission, Operation Lifesaver developed a program that emphasizes Education, Engineering and Enforcement activities. These activities are called the "Operation Lifesaver 3-E's."
Operation Lifesaver programs are needed because ...
Our Goal:
To make highway-rail collisions obsolete by encouraging every motorist to...
...LOOK, LISTEN, AND LIVE!
What is Operation Lifesaver?
Operation Lifesaver is a program designed to help save your life at the most dangerous spot on any highway or road -- the highway-rail grade crossing. Operation Lifesaver is an active, continuous public information and education program to help prevent and reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities by improving driver performance at the nation's approximately 270,000 public and private highway-rail grade crossings and on rights-of-way. To achieve its mission, Operation Lifesaver developed a program that emphasizes Education, Engineering and Enforcement activities. These activities are called the "Operation Lifesaver 3-E's."
Operation Lifesaver programs are needed because ...
- Thousands of people are seriously injured and killed in nearly 4,200 highway-rail grade crossing crashes each year.
- A highway-rail at-grade crossing, also know as a highway-rail intersection, presents a particularly hazardous traffic environment for motorists. Some drivers have not yet learned how to respond to the warning signs and devices placed at highway-rail crossings. Often they are unaware that trains cannot stop as quickly as motor vehicles to avoid a collision. Others simply ignore all warning signs because they are "in a hurry" and would rather play "beat the train" than wait. Driver inattention and impatience are the most common factors contributing to motor vehicle/train collisions at highway-rail grade crossings.
- Each year more than 450 people are killed and nearly 500 injured as a result of dangerous and illegal activities on or near railroad tracks.
- It is dangerous, and illegal, to trespass on tracks.
Our Goal:
To make highway-rail collisions obsolete by encouraging every motorist to...
...LOOK, LISTEN, AND LIVE!