WARREN, Ohio - Thirty days without a serious crash.  

Ohio State Troopers have been cracking down along a 17 mile stretch of Interstate 80 for nearly a month. The distracted driving safety corridor that runs from Milton to Hubbard townships is a first for the state. 

"I think it's brought a lot of awareness to it and our crashes have gone down," said Lt. Brian Holt with the Warren Post of the State Highway Patrol.

The stretch of highway is filled with signs reminding drivers "Don't Text and Drive." One series of signs asks, "How Important is that Text?"

Another sign digitally displays how many days it's been since the last serious crash.

As of Wednesday, that number was 30.

Holt said during that time frame, troopers have cited a handful of people for distracted driving.

"The law is very specific in terms of actually issuing a citation. They have to be actually sending or receiving a text message at the time of the violation of whatever it is we stopped them for," said Holt.

Often times motorists that are stopped are stopped because of a lane violation. Those violations may not have been accompanied by a distracted driving citation, but more than 50 drivers have admitted to troopers that they were distracted while driving.

"Certainly it is our intention to change their behavior and people do talk, so the message has gotten out (that) troopers, specifically, are targeting violations that more commonly go hand in hand with being distracted inside the vehicle," said Holt.