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Social media
campaign shows the dangers of roadwork
Latest video includes the mother of an ODOT worker who was killed
COLUMBUS (Wednesday, October 21, 2015) – This summer, the Ohio
Department of Transportation began a social media campaign to raise
awareness about the state’s “Move Over” law. It’s a law that mandates
motorists move over and slow down when vehicles with flashing lights,
including highway work crew trucks, are on the side of the road.
The various posts to Facebook and Twitter have been viewed over a
million times since July.
ODOT’s latest video features Joan Kiper. Her son, Mark, was an ODOT
seasonal worker who was struck and killed in 1997 while working with a
crew along U.S. 30 in Wayne County.
“He was actually just getting out of the truck when the truck was hit
by a truck that was loaded with steel,” Kiper said. “He had just worked
two weeks when the accident happened.”
Last year, there were 5,100 work-zone crashes, leading to more than
1,000 injuries and 17 deaths. So far this year, 25 fatalities have been
recorded in Ohio’s roadway work zones.
View the video here:
https://www.facebook.com/OhioDepartmentofTransportationDistrict3/videos/1179470888746908/
or https://youtu.be/4IHenInA91w
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