Articles Tagged with ''workzone safety''

Driver of speeding car that killed six workers is set for court trial in November.

A New Hampshire man is facing multiple charges after crashing his truck into a work zone.

As many of us were planning for the New Year ahead, a family in Franconia Township, Pa., was mourning the recent death of 53-year-old David Smith, who was killed when a young driver ran into Smith and another worker while they were painting stripes on a local road. 

In a project aimed at preventing wrong-way driving accidents, Arizona is installing the nation’s first thermal-camera-based, wrong-way-driver detection system along a 15-mile-long stretch of Interstate 17 in Phoenix.

In an effort to prevent train accidents on a new $2.3-billion, 10-mile-long extension line in San Francisco, the Berryessa-Valley Transportation Authority/Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) team is installing a railroad intrusion-detection system (RIDS) that uses warning devices originally developed for protecting shipping ports from break-ins.