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"Safe Kids Walk This Way"

By Scott Sarvay
June 18, 2010 Updated Oct 15, 2009 at 4:25 PM EST FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - Between 1999 and 2006, 128 Indiana students were killed walking to school, according to officials with "the Safe Kids Walk This Way" program. To help ensure another student isn't injured or killed while walking on the street, St. Charles Borromeo school officials and Fed-Ex volunteers are teaming up to teach more than 700 students safety skills that could save their lives. Teachers emphasized the importance of wearing reflective clothing and identifying pedestrian hazards. Fed-Ex officials say with more than 75,000 trucks on the road each day, they want students to remember one safety skill above all. FedEx Express Operations Manager Terry Burns says, “There are blind spots on our vehicles. We are really enforcing the fact that, make sure our driver sees you. And, teaching them the blind spots around the vehicles.” And those blind spots are problems for all vehicles, not just those trucks, so it is important to stay in the view of all vehicles.
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