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Sponsors pitch curriculum, cameras and penalties for work-zone safety in House Bill 82
Summary
House Bill 82 would expand driver education on construction-zone safety, require a post-offense safety course (with a $400 penalty for noncompletion), permit private speed-monitoring devices and video, and allow ODOT to cooperate with local agencies on camera installation.
Representatives Gary Click and Mark Johnson presented House Bill 82 to the Ohio House Public Safety Committee, describing a package of changes aimed at reducing crashes and worker deaths in road and construction work zones.
Sponsors framed the bill around numbers: Ohio’s large highway network, thousands of bridges and a rising number of work-zone crashes and citations. “These are the men and women wearing the hard hats, the reflective vest, carrying the shovels…that I stand before you here today to represent,” Representative Gary Click said, stressing fatalities and injuries suffered by highway maintenance workers.
House Bill 82 would: require driver’s education…
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