Highway construction workers often do their jobs within inches of speeding vehicles and potential sideswipes. It’s dangerous, and the numbers aren’t trending in the right direction.
“You don’t realize what a rearview mirror at 45, 55, 65 miles an hour can do,” said Skip Powe, principal at Nashville, Tennessee-based engineering firm Smith Seckman Reid. “A mirror upside the head at 55, hard hat or not, you’re in trouble.”
