Although he says that “the mission is harder now,” a man at the core of a seminal media campaign more than two decades ago doesn’t see why a repeat performance, altered to better accommodate 21st century changes in the viewing audience and its habits, can’t work once again. The man at center stage in…
Ohio is one of the busiest states in the country when it comes to the transportation of varied goods across its roads and interstates. Commercial truckers literally log scores of millions of miles hauling cargo through towns and cities, down highways, through tunnels and across bridges, with loads being destined for locations throughout the…
Notwithstanding good-faith attempts by management at a construction workplace to make the environment as safe as possible, and regardless of how many rules are promulgated by safety regulators to guard against construction accidents, industrial worksites always harbor the potential for danger and workers’ injuries. That sad reality was firmly underscored earlier this month when…
If you’re the type of Ohio motorist who always buckles up and never needs reminding to do so, good for you. If you’re not, you might soon get reminded. And ticketed. And acquainted once again with that catch phrase that issues annually at just about this time nationally each year: Click it or ticket….
“Remember, trees don’t move.” That is less advice than it is something to simply keep firmly in mind for the driver of any motorized vehicle. In car accidents, drivers almost always lose when an immobile object is involved. And if that is true for vehicles offering enclosure protection, it is even more the case…
Every time a dire outcome ensues on an Ohio or other state roadway from a commercial truck accident resulting in the injury or death of a driver or passengers of a smaller vehicle, a number of national safety advocacy groups are noting the fact and keeping a close tally. Such groups, which include the…
Many health and safety advocates will willingly subscribe to the notion that more Americans walking and riding bikes equates to a cumulatively healthier populace. The only problem with that idea in much of Ohio and elsewhere across the United States is that, compared to a number of other nations, venturing outside the house in…
The above headline is, unfortunately, far from hyperbole. The sad and simple fact is that, notwithstanding the strong and persistent efforts of safety regulators, law enforcement departments, school officials and a host of other groups, teen motorists continue to text while driving. And the number of those doing so just keeps going up and…
The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) was founded in 1924 and is the now the world’s largest motorcycling advocacy group in the world. The association has more than 300,000 members and a motorcycle Hall of Fame in Pickering, near Columbus. The AMA is especially busy every year around this time, when it preaches the virtues…