Articles Tagged with road work accidents

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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.

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We drive by them all the time as we travel Maryland’s highways: road workers filling in potholes, repaving roads, or making improvements to our transportation infrastructure. Maryland’s highway construction workers put themselves in harm’s way every day — often with little more than a row of orange cones or barrels between themselves and speeding traffic. Same goes for utility workers, traffic police, flaggers and others who work in road construction zones.

However highway workers aren’t the only ones at risk when drivers speed through work zones. Drivers who approach work zones too quickly can fail to safely navigate detours, lane shifts, barriers, construction equipment and other obstacles that come up fast. According to the Maryland SafeZones project, four out of five crash-related injuries in work zones are suffered by motorists themselves. Continue Reading

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