Snowmobile Virtual-Reality Video Aims to Reduce Collisions Between Trains and Winter Off-Road Vehicles
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Operation Lifesaver (OL) today unveiled a new snowmobile-focused virtual-reality (VR) video to raise awareness about how to prevent collisions between trains and winter off-road vehicles. The video immerses viewers in a 3D environment, and gives them the shocking – and hopefully unforgettable – experience of being in a collision with a train. The video is the latest addition to the Look. Listen. Live. campaign first launched by OL last April.
“We produced this video because we heard concerns from our railway partners that snowmobilers were sometimes using railway tracks and rights-of-way as trails — which is both illegal and extremely dangerous — or that they weren’t approaching crossings with sufficient caution,” said
“Snowmobiles can easily become lodged in railway tracks when drivers try to cross the tracks where no crossing exists. These vehicles also tend to have loud engines, and can kick up a lot off snow – and when you’re wearing a helmet, that can mask the sight and sound of an oncoming train.”
According to the
In addition to the video launch, OL’s Saskatchewan Committee today is hosting a snowmobile-train mock collision in
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