Work Zone Safety Week Targets Distracted Drivers

Theme: 'Don't Be That Driver'

This week is National Work Zone Awareness Week, with a theme of: “Don’t Be that driver.” 

Highway department employees work hard to keep our roads safe, but they also put their lives on the line daily when they work only inches away from vehicles flying by at over 70 mph.

Wisconsin lost three highway department employees in work zone accidents last year, and it sees almost 2,000 work zone crashes annually.

Higher fines are in place for speeding in work zones, and in Minnesota, getting a ticket in a work zone will cost you $300.