Maryland Injury Attorney Blog
We’ve all driven past road crews on the sides of our Maryland highways — where construction, repairs, and other road work happens seemingly within feet of speeding motor vehicles. It takes a special kind of man or woman to do this hard manual labor for hours, in hot and cold weather, amid the noise and rush of oncoming traffic.
Tragically, on March 22, 2023, six road workers died when a car going more than 100 mph crashed into a work zone on I-695 in Baltimore County. This preventable fatal car accident resulted in multiple felony negligent manslaughter charges for the two drivers involved, and the call for legislation to better protect construction workers on our Maryland streets and highways.
The Assistant Governor’s office formed a work zone safety group in the wake of the fatal crash, leading to the Maryland Road Worker Protection Act being signed into law in April 2024. In January 2025, a tiered penalty system goes into effect for drivers who speed in work zones.