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Operation Lifesaver returning to DeKalb
Published November 6, 2009
Carter Roberts is on a mission to help save lives.
Roberts works with Norfolk Southern Railway and is a volunteer with Operation Lifesaver, an organization that promotes awareness at railroad crossings. He will be in Collinsville on Monday from 2-4 p.m. handing out pamphlets at railroad crossings.
It’s the second effort this year in DeKalb County. Operation Lifesaver came to Fort Payne in April.
“We are going to spend a couple of hours stopping motorists and giving them information that could save their lives at railroad crossings,” Roberts said.
Roberts said there is about 4,500 miles of train track in Alabama and about 6,000 crossings.
Roberts said Alabama is almost always in the top 15 states for train accidents each year.
“We were No. 8 last year,” Roberts said. “People who are used to trains tend to get complacent.”
Even though some crossings in Collinsville don’t have flashing lights and cross arms, Roberts said most accidents happen at the crossing that do have the arms and lights.
“It is a problem with people going around the downed, cross arms,” Roberts said. “Unfortunately, we see it a lot.”
Roberts said hundreds of pamphlets will be handed out to motorists in both English and Spanish, and he hopes it will raise awareness at railroad crossings.
“We want them to take them home and read them,” Roberts said. “There is information in there that can save their lives.”
Roberts said the organization started in 1972 and since that time, railroad-crossing accidents have decreased by 80 percent.
“It’s been a successful organization and is in all 50 states,” Roberts said. “The organization is getting the word out, and the more people know about it the more they will be alert at crossings.”
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