Glen Allen resident Ron Melancon calls himself a fixer. His mission is to bring awareness to the dangers of homemade, improperly secured, stolen or unregistered utility trailers towed by passenger vehicles on U.S. roads. “My issue – our issue – is fixable,” Melancon said of the hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries caused annually by trailer-related accidents. “I am trying to save lives.” Melancon’s advocacy for roadway safety originated in the early 2000s after he witnessed a homemade trailer fatally strike a woman. After creating the website http://www.dangeroustrailers.org in 2004, Melancon launched a campaign to eliminate these types of...