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Committee reviews work‑zone safety bill that would expand education, allow contractor speed monitors and require safety courses
Summary
House Bill 82 would require construction‑zone safety instruction in drivers' education, mandate completion of a safety course after work‑zone offenses, permit certain private speed‑monitoring devices and increase reporting and camera use by ODOT to aid investigations.
Sponsors told the committee House Bill 82 aims to reduce injuries and deaths in road‑work zones by adding educational requirements, allowing certain monitoring devices and strengthening enforcement tools.
Representative Gary Click opened with statewide statistics and an account of work‑zone fatalities, citing Ohio’s extensive highway network and bridge inventory and noting spikes in work‑zone fatalities and crashes. Click proposed driver‑education instruction on construction‑zone dangers and stressed the human toll: he said the sponsors would offer an amendment to name the bill after Trenton Galloway, a 20‑year‑old county worker killed on the job.
Representative Mark Johnson described bill provisions:…
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