Video Feed: Summertime Driving Tips: Increasing Your Safety While Driving on Busier Roads - Especially at Night

NEW YORK, May 25, 2006 -- With summer just around the corner there are two things sure to follow: longer days and jam-packed highways. But before you pack up the family and get behind the wheel, here are a few tips to be a little safer while driving, especially at night. Recent figures from researchers reveal there are nearly 2,300 fatalities on U.S. highways each year due directly to insufficient lighting. But help is on the way in the form of new technology on today's vehicles.

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  NEWS: Footage includes new technologies to help motorists drive safer at
        night when 2,300 fatalities occur in the United States due to
        insufficient light.

  FORMAT: News Package With Extra Soundbites and B-roll.

  SOUNDBITES:
  -- Rick Bloomfield, Spokesman, Motor Vehicle Lighting Council
  -- Michael Flannagan, Senior Researcher, University of Michigan

  B-ROLL INCLUDES:  ** Footage of nighttime driving and new technologies **
                    animation of new technologies

  VIDEO PROVIDED BY:  Motor Vehicle Lighting Council - http://www.mvlc.info/