National Work Zone Awareness Week: Promoting Road Safety and Reducing Fatalities.
The Senate supports designating a National Work Zone Awareness Week to address the high rate of fatalities and injuries in construction zones. This resolution encourages all drivers to adopt safer practices, such as slowing down, avoiding distractions, and obeying traffic instructions, to protect themselves and road workers. The goal is to reverse the trend of rising work zone fatalities, which reached their highest level since 2006.
Key points
Focus on Driver Behavior: Encourages specific actions like avoiding distractions, maintaining distance, and obeying reduced speed limits to prevent crashes.
Addressing High Risk: Highlights that 857 fatalities occurred in work zones in 2020, emphasizing the critical need for increased public awareness and vigilance.
Infrastructure Safety: Encourages infrastructure owners to deploy technologies to make travel safer for both workers and road users.
Status:
Adopted
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