Caution! Work Zone Ahead! ‘Behavioral countermeasures’ could help increase safety in highway construction zones
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A vehicle traveling at 55 mph covers a distance greater than a football field in five seconds. With the average text taking approximately five seconds to read, that’s at least a football field’s worth of driver inattention. Texting while driving is dangerous, and possibly even fatal, especially in a highway work zone. [...]
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