FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire is looking into how to prevent moose crashes.

Highway Safety Coordinator Peter Thomson is spending $50,000 in federal highway money to try to find ways to cut moose-vehicle collisions.

He met Tuesday in Franconia Notch with Executive Councilor Ray Burton, Fish and Game, the Transportation Department and an emergency room doctor who has treated scores of moose crash victims.

Dr. Campbell McLaren has found that many accidents take place in a five-mile section of Interstate 93 stretching north of Franconia Notch.

Greg Placy, from the Transportation Department, is on a national committee that has researched ways to reduce moose collisions. He said other states are testing technology that flashes warnings to drivers when a moose, or other animal, crosses a light beam on the highway.

They also discussed a video that might be shown at driver’s ed classes and visitor centers.

“It would be a good component of driver education,” said Fish and Game Lt. John Wimsatt. “It would be ingrained (in young drivers) that we live in a state with wildlife.”