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Operation Lifesaver Videos

Unless otherwise indicated, videos and training modules can be purchased by sending a check or money in US dollars, or a purchase order to our authorized vendors:


Elite Promotions
1419 North Belcrest Avenue
Springfield, MO 65802
www.elitepromo.com
oli@elitepromo.com
1-800-720-8516
417-866-8989

Morton Suggestion, Inc.
PO Box 76
Mt. Prospect, IL  60056
1-800-323-0423

All videos are copyrighted and may not be reproduced without permission.
Prices may vary depending on order size.

OL Video List

Jump to videos for

  1. Student Drivers/New Drivers
  2. Professional Drivers/School Bus Drivers
  3. Law Enforcement/Emergency Responders
  4. General Adult
  5. Classroom (K-12)


Student Drivers/New Drivers


Look to Live - Teen Driver Education

Copyright 2008

Six realistic on-the-road scenarios that demonstrate potential risks and what drivers must know to be safe at highway-rail grade crossings.  This versatile education tool also provides students with the opportunity to view signs and signals operating at and near the crossing. Video shot and edited by The Big Picture, Springfield, VA. Web learning tool prepared by Dazzletech of Sterling, VA.

Trauma Doctor segment, shot at LSU Level 1 Trauma Center, talks about what can happen when drivers let their attention drift from the road “for just an instant.”

It can be shown separately or along with the on-the-road segment.

Audience: Ages 14 - 17
Length: Approximately 10 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (video only)
; Training module is being constructed.  It will include a Instructor’s Guide, Student Guide, Safety Quiz and video for $25.

Additional information on Look to Live

Die Hard if You're Dumb - Railroad Safety for Teens
Copyright 1998

Real teenagers helped research, write and produce this MTV-style video prepared by HR Productions. The video increases awareness for this age group of the potential dangers around railroad tracks, crossings, and yards.

Audience: Ages 13 - 18
Length: 15 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (video only); $25.00 (Training module — which includes an Instructor's Guide, Student Notes, Safety Quiz and video)

It's Your Choice: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety for Motorists
Copyright 2000

This video is designed to encourage safe behavior at highway-rail grade crossings and to discourage trespassing around railroad property and tracks.

Audience: Adult drivers, including professional crew drivers, and pedestrians
Length: 9:22 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

Final Answer
Copyright 2000 by Chicago Metra

Railroad safety messages for student and adult drivers, delivered in a game show format.

Audience: Adult and High School (Grades 9-12)
Length: 18:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

 

Professional Drivers/School Bus Drivers


Decide Smart, Arrive Safe
Copyright, 2005

Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Awareness Training for School Bus Drivers.  Produced in cooperation with the pupil transportation industry and U.S. DOT for Operation Lifesaver, Inc.  The purpose of this video is to make school bus drivers aware of the potential dangers that exist at highway-rail grade crossings, and the steps to ensure their own safety as well as the safety of students in their care.  Teaching module (available October 2005) includes Instructor=s Guide, Student Notes, Safety Quiz, and video.

Audience: School bus drivers, Transportation and Education Directors, ect.
Length: 18:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video/DVD)

Your License or Your Life
Copyright 2000

Created as a replacement to Physics 101 after the tragedy at Bourbonnais, working with the Federal Highway Administration and the American Trucking Associations. New federal penalties issued in October 1999 changed the scope of this video and made its message even more meaningful for drivers nationwide. (New penalties can result in a professional driver losing the required Commercial Driving License for a minimum of 60 days and longer for subsequent violations.) Three members of ATA’s America’s Road Team narrate and participate in the video.

Audience: Professional Drivers
Length: 9:35 minutes
Cost: $35.00 Video with Training Module, including materials for Instructor and Driver, plus a Safety Quiz

 

Law Enforcement/Emergency Responders


Roll Call: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety
Copyright 1999

Targeted to law enforcement, this video takes a quick look at the life and death reasons for Operation Lifesaver's long-standing and strong partnership with law enforcement and its importance at highway-rail grade crossings in communities nationwide.

Audience: Law Enforcement
Length: 9:22 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

Emergency Response:Your Safety First
Copyright 2002

This video is designed to increase emergency responder safety around tracks and trains, especially when crossing tracks in response to incidents.

Audience: Fire fighters, ambulance drivers and other emergency responders.
Length: 10:30 minutes

It's Your Call: Increasing Judicial Awareness of Highway-Rail Safety
Copyright 2000

This video is designed to increase judicial awareness of their crucial role in reducing tragic incidents at highway-rail grade crossings and along railroad rights-of-way.

Audience: Judges and judicial community
Length: 11:40 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

 

General Adult

 

You Can Make A Difference Too
Copyright 2005

An introduction to Operation Lifesaver used for recruitment and orientation of new volunteers.  Also familiarizes  community groups with OL.  Presenters from various professions, including firefighting, professional trucking, state police, light rail, school transportation and small business, are shown delivering the OL message to their peers. A bilingual Presenter addresses a community group in English and Spanish. 

Audience: Potential Operation Lifesaver Presenters, normally from age 15 through retirement.  This video is officially included in OLI's Presenter training program.  Also used to introduce potential sponsors or other community partners to OL.
Length: 11:50 minutes

Final Answer
Copyright 2000 by Chicago Metra

Railroad safety messages for student and adult drivers, delivered in a game show format.

Audience: Adult and High School (Grades 9-12)
Length: 18:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

Sleddin' the Right Track
Copyright 1999

Targeted to snowmobilers, this video shows in no uncertain terms, why it is unsafe and potentially lethal to operate a snowmobile on or near railroad tracks.

Audience: Snowmobile clubs, companies who sell snowmobile equipment
Length: 12:30 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

It's Your Choice: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety for Motorists
Copyright 2000

This video is designed to encourage safe behavior at highway-rail grade crossings and to discourage trespassing around railroad property and tracks.

Audience: Adult drivers, including professional crew drivers, and pedestrians
Length: 9:22 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

Videos for the Classroom (K-12)

 

Off Limits: Don't Get Caught Dead In Your Tracks
Copyright 1995. Revised 2001

A trespass prevention video, produced for Norfolk Southern Corporation, which reenacts four trespassing violations experienced and told by the railroad engineers who lived through them.  Featured are teens who drink and then fall asleep on the tracks, a hunter walking along a trestle who narrowly escapes tragedy, a teenage girl walking on the tracks who fails to hear the train because she’s wearing earphones, and two young boys whose mini-bike gets stuck on the track and who jump clear in the nick of time. 

Audience: Middle School
Length: 20:00 minutes

Tracks Are For Trains, Not For Kids
Copyright 2001

A teaching video produced by Michigan Operation Lifesaver for elementary school students in which three young people and the narrator meet a railroad engineer, a conductor, police officers and a school bus driver, all showing students why “Tracks are for Trains – Not for Kids!”

Audience: K-4 Grades
Length: 8:00 minutes

It's Your Choice: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety for Motorists
Copyright 2000

This video is designed to encourage safe behavior at highway-rail grade crossings and to discourage trespassing around railroad property and tracks.

Audience: Adult drivers, including professional crew drivers, and pedestrians
Length: 9:22 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

Final Answer
Copyright 2000 by Chicago Metra

Railroad safety messages for student and adult drivers, delivered in a game show format.

Audience: Adult and High School (Grades 9-12)
Length: 18:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

Byron's Last Day
1997, Operation Lifesaver, Inc.

A cast of high school students, along with several professional actors, reenact real trespass tragedies in an urban / suburban setting.

View video clips:

Hopping a Train

Headphones on the Tracks

Crossing Between Trains

Audience: Middle school - Adult
Length: 12:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)


David's Run
Produced 1987

Strong message, dramatically illustrating hazards of trespassing on or vandalizing railroad property.

View video clip:

David's Run

Audience: Middle School, Grades 4 - 9
Length: 15:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)


Die Hard if You're Dumb - Railroad Safety for Teens

Real teenagers helped research, write and produce this MTV-style video prepared by HR Productions. The video increases awareness for this age group of the potential dangers around railroad tracks, crossings, and yards.

Introductory Questions for Classroom Use

View video clips:

Vehicles Crash with Train

3 Areas of Railroad Safety

Trespassing Facts

Judging Train Speed

Audience: Ages 13 - 18
Length: 15 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (video only); $25.00 (Training module — which includes an Instructor's Guide, Student Notes, Safety Quiz and video)


Sly Fox and Birdie - New!

Produced 2006

Sly Fox and Birdie, Operation Lifesaver’s train safety mascots, are back in a colorful new DVD with more adventures and safety tips for kids. Birdie and Sly Fox discover why tracks and trains are no place to play. There’s also a new train safety rap song that entertains as it reinforces important safety messages.

Audience: Grades K - 3
Length: 10:00 minutes
Cost: Ranges from $5.00 - $10.00. See vendor websites for details.

Sly Fox and Birdie

Produced 1992

Created as a cartoon show, to entertain as well as educate children. Teaches children to be extremely cautious around railroad tracks.

View video clips:

Throwing Objects at Trains

Playing in Boxcars

Driving Across the Tracks

Audience: Grades K - 4
Length: 10:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)

Educational items may be ordered from:

Elite Promotions, Inc.
1419 N. Belcrest
Springfield, MO 65802

Phone: 800-720-8516
417-866-8989
Fax: 417-866-2075

Morton Suggestion, Inc.
PO Box 76
Mt. Prospect, IL  60056
1-800-323-0423