This Friday, the FDOT will launch a new safety campaign, Guard Your Life - Drive Alert on I-75, aimed at reducing traffic-related fatalities on Interstate 75.  The safety campaign coincides with a construction project to add guardrail on I-75 from CR-577 to the Pasco/Hernando County Line and from north of SR 50 to the Hernando/Sumter County Line.

District Seven Secretary of Transportation Don Skelton said, “FDOT is putting in guardrails along the medians of I-75 in Hillsborough, Pasco, and Hernando counties in an effort to reduce head-on crashes.  The goal is to make I-75 a safer corridor for everyone.”

From January 2004 through May 2007, there were a total of 4,702 crashes with 3,160 injuries and 66 fatalities that occurred on I-75 from Hillsborough/Manatee to Hernando/Sumter counties.  Out of these crashes there were 36 head-on collisions resulting in one fatality and 26 injuries. 

FDOT is also joining forces with the Florida Trucking Association to broadcast this safety message. 

For more information on the FDOT “Guard Your Life - Drive Alert on I-75” safety campaign, please visit: http://www.drivealert75.com.