Work Zone Safety Awareness Week, April 8

Oregon State Police (OSP) along with our law enforcement partners joi n ODOT and transportation agencies across the country in raising awareness about the importance of traveling safely through road construction work zones during “National Work Zone Awareness Week”, April 7 – 11, 2014.  This year’s theme, “Work Zone Speeding: A Costly Mistake”, aims to raise awareness of speeding and the effect speed and unsafe driving has on work zone safety. Traffic crashes cause serious injuries and death. Nationally, an average of 595 people is killed in work zone crashes each year. According to ODOT, during the last 3 years there were 21 fatalities in work zone crashes.