Troopers Don Hardhats to Nab Construction Zone Speeders
"It's not really so much about trying to be sneaky as just trying to do the right thing," says Major Grady Carrick, commander of Jacksonville's Troop G, which launched the program July 26. "The construction zones, they are just so dangerous," Carrick says.
The tally of 2001 work-zone fatalities released Aug. 15 by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration bears him out. It shows 886 work-zone fatalities in 2001, up from 873 the year before. When maintenance, utility and other work-zone fatalities are included, the deaths rose from 1,026 in 2000 to 1,079 last year.