The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) is encouraging everyone to take part in National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW), April 26-30, and to wear orange on Go Orange Day, April 28, as a reminder to use always caution and drive carefully in and around work zones.
NWZAW is held in April each year at the traditional start of the construction season, when the number of works on our nationâs roadways increases. The theme of this yearâs campaign is âDrive Safe. Work Safe. Save Lives.â
Drive Safe. When approaching a work zone, motorists should always slow down, follow all posted signs, be alert and remain calm. Risky driving behavior affects more than just the driver â everyoneâs lives and families are at stake.
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Family urging safe driving through highway work zones after losing loved one
This week, there’s a special focus on safe driving through highway work zones.
“It’s not just a TDOT worker you’re scooting over for. You’re scooting over for somebody,” Sarah Tolentino whose father was killed on the job.
Almost five years ago, David Younger was going down I-40. He saw a crew needing help with a flat tire in Hickman County and stopped.
“Of course, that’s my dad’s characteristics and personality. Always stopping to help, doing whatever he can to help others,” Tolentino said.
National Work Zone Awareness Week
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Everyone deserves to go home safely. National Work Zone Awareness Week is a national public awareness campaign that spreads the message that we are all responsible for work zone safety. ODOT joined other partners to kick off the week with an event at the statehouse.
ODOT crews were struck 125 times last year. So far in 2021, crews have been hit more than 60 times.
Despite lower traffic volumes in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 4,540 crashes in Ohio work zones. Eighteen of the crashes were deadly, resulting in 19 deaths.
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Wolf Administration Highlights National Work Zone Awareness Week
Pennsylvania s revamped Move Over Law takes effect this week.
04/26/2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) today hosted an event to kick off National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW). The week, designated to highlight the critical importance of safe driving through work zones, runs through April 30. The theme of this year s work-zone safety campaign is Drive safe. Work safe. Save lives.
Surrounded by first-responder vehicles and equipment, Lieutenant Colonel Scott Price, deputy commissioner of operations for the Pennsylvania State Police, began the event by acknowledging the dangers faced by first responders while providing roadside assistance.