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Arkansas committee advances tougher penalties for drivers who hit workers in highway work zones
Summary
A bill to enhance penalties for drivers who injure or kill people in highway construction zones cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee after testimony from contractors and ARDOT that work-zone incidents and fatalities have increased. Senators requested crash breakdowns before final passage.
Representative Carol Fike told the Senate Judiciary Committee she brought the highway safety bill after recent deadly incidents and industry requests, saying the measure would increase penalties to make drivers “think twice” before entering work zones unsafely.
Under the bill presented, hitting and injuring a person in a highway work zone would be a class A misdemeanor and striking and killing someone in a work zone would rise to a class C felony, to be charged in addition to any other applicable offenses. Representative Fike framed the…
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