Overview
- National Work Zone Awareness Week, which runs April 20–24, is underway with agencies urging drivers to slow down, stay alert, and follow posted limits.
- Texas reported more than 28,000 work zone crashes in 2025 with 203 deaths, and officials say most victims were drivers or passengers.
- Recent state counts include Oregon’s 2024 five-year high of 621 crashes with 14 deaths, Utah’s 2,154 crashes with four deaths in 2025, and Kentucky’s 1,156 crashes with 13 driver or passenger deaths in 2025.
- Agencies are leaning on enforcement and engineering, with doubled fines in marked zones, hybrid speed control devices, and Connecticut preparing to switch on work zone speed cameras this summer.
- Drivers should expect more lane shifts and closures as construction ramps up, including scheduled daytime shutdowns this week in El Paso work areas.