Construction workers deaths on the rise in highway construction zones
The State of Illinois cracked down on motorists caught speeding by high-tech photo enforcement in construction zones along the state’s highways.
A recent Chicago Tribune analysis of court records reports that not one single motorist caught speeding through construction zones has been convicted. The majority of offenders’ charges were dismissed or drastically reduced to a regular speeding ticket with much smaller fines and penalties. A conviction of a motorist speeding through construction zones carries a hefty fine as well as increased court costs.
The minimum fine of speeding through a construction zone is $375.00 Priscilla Tobias, safety engineer with the Illinois Department of Transportation states that the concept of the high fine would promote voluntary compliance with the 45 mph speed limit through construction work zones.
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