Industry, gov't mayday initiative sets safety goals.

RCR Wireless News, October, 2000 by WEAVER, HEATHER FORSGREN

WASHINGTON--A public-private partnership known as the National Mayday Readiness Initiative announced key recommendations that it hopes will save lives by reducing the response time to automobile accidents and increasing the information about crash victims available to trauma centers. "The new emergency communications systems hold great life-saving promise, but they won't work by themselves.

Victims need an effective private-public response team," said Dr. Howard Champion, a trauma surgeon and a board member of the Communications for Coordinated Assistance and Response to Emergencies (ComCare) Alliance. ComCare has joined with General Motors Corp.'s OnStar System and the Department of Transportation on the mayday initiative. NMRI is being underwritten...

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