Lima officials are detailing a proposed safety improvement project for Cable Road after crash data showed a high rate of accidents and injuries along the corridor. The plan has sparked debate among residents and businesses, with the city encouraging the public to review project details online.
Locally, the Lima Kiwanis Club is working to support that effort by aiding the Child Car Seat Program at the Lima Fire Department. The initiative began after club members learned about a family who couldn’t bring their newborn home from the hospital because they didn’t have a properly working car seat.
LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) - Governor Mike DeWine signed the state operating budget into law on June 30. As part of the new budget for fiscal years 202…
Ohio’s tougher distracted driving laws are prompting more motorists to put down their phones.
Students at Allen East High School got to sit behind the wheel of a distracted driving simulation to see the real-life consequences of what it’s like to take your eyes off the road. According to the CDC, car crashes are the number one cause of death for teens in the country, and most of them involve reckless and distracted driving. It’s this preventable health epidemic that the students in SADD are trying to fight.
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety’s latest research shows that even car crashes and legal consequences aren’t deterring drivers from engaging in dangerous or risky behavior behind the wheel.
The data shows a gap between drivers' attitudes about risky driving behaviors and what they practice themselves behind the wheel. While drivers acknowledge that distracted, aggressive, or impaired driving is dangerous, many of them admit to engaging in this behavior on the road.
A house on West State Road in Elida is now damaged after a driver crashed into it Saturday afternoon. The Ohio State Highway Patrol Lima post was dispatched to a house on west state road just before 3 p.m.
