Work Zone Awareness

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National Work Zone Awareness Week

In 1997, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) created a high school work zone awareness program in conjunction with the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance (VTCA). The program was intended to make drivers more aware of roadway work zones. Every year employees with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the transportation construction industry participate in National Work Zone Awareness Week, in April.

VDOT and the transportation construction industry will participate in National Work Zone Awareness Week April 4-8, 2011. Nationally, 720 people were killed and more than 40,000 injured in 2008 in workzones, accounting for two percent of highway fatalities. In Virginia, there were 3,249 crashes in work zones in 2009. Of those crashes, seven people died and more than 1,721 were injured. A majority of crashes occur on primary routes involving drivers in their early 20s. On average, four out of five people killed in work zone crashes are drivers, not highway workers.

When traveling in work zones there are three parts you need to remember…what to do before, during and after you leave a work zone.