LANSING - While children in the front row of a dark movie theater laughed and applauded, Miles, a yellow animated road stripe, waved back as four short commercials about driving safety starring him played.

It was his premiere.

Miles was introduced Tuesday at Celebration Cinema, 200 E. Edgewood Blvd., as part of a new campaign by the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning, or OHSP, to educate adults and children about merging near semi-trucks, blind spots, speeding, and safety belt safety.

Morgan Hurst, a first-grader at Moores Park Elementary School, 316 Moores River Drive in Lansing, enjoyed learning driving safety tips from Miles.

“I learned not to stand in front of cars