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News Conference & Demonstration: Minnesota Automobile Crash Notification System

9 November 1999

ADVISORY/News Conference & Demonstration: Minnesota Automobile Crash Notification System

    

    A car crash ... a severly injured driver on a deserted rural road -- a bleak picture? Automatically, the crashed vehicle transmits data from the scene -- location, crash impact and injury information -- to law enforcement and emergency medical personnel who immediately respond with help.

EVENT: Mayo Clinic, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Minnesota
    State Patrol and Veridian Corporation invite you to a news
    conference and demonstration of Mayday Plus -- a futuristic
    automobile crash notification system that employs GPS, cellular
    communications and crash sensors. A Mayday Plus system
    operational test is currently underway in southeastern
    Minnesota involving more than 200 vehicles driven by volunteers
    from Mayday Plus developers and the public.

DATE: Tuesday, November 9, 1999

TIME: News conference 11 a.m. CST, Demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. CST
    (Allow two hours for demonstration, which includes equipment at
    both State Patrol and Mayo Clinic communications centers).

LOCATION: Mn/DOT -- Minnesota State Patrol, Rochester Facility Garage,
    2900 48th St. NW, Rochester, Minnesota (tel. 507-285-7406)

SPEAKERS: Mayo Clinic: Dr. Scott Zietlow
    Minnesota State Patrol: Col. Anne Beers
    Mn/DOT Assistant Deputy Commissioner: Pat Hughes
    Veridian Corporation Vice President: Ed Starsoliec

MISC.: B-Roll and high-quality animation will be available.