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Sponsors propose tougher education, cameras and training for work-zone safety after spike in strikes
Summary
Sponsors of House Bill 82 told the Public Safety Committee the measure would add driver education, require safety-course completion after work-zone offenses, allow monitoring devices and cameras for enforcement, and raise penalties in some cases to reduce worker strikes and fatalities.
Representatives Gary Click and Mark Johnson presented House Bill 82, a package of proposals aimed at reducing work-zone crashes and strikes on Ohio roads. Sponsors said the bill focuses on education, enhanced reporting, permissive use of speed-monitoring devices and cameras by contractors, and stiffer consequences for repeat reckless drivers.
"These are the men and women wearing the hard hats, the reflective vest... that I stand before you here today to represent," Representative Gary Click said, urging action after testimony that work-zone fatalities and hits on crews have risen sharply. Sponsors highlighted a…
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