New DOT Barriers Can Help Save Workers’ Lives

There were more than 1,600 work-zone collisions in Washington State last year and an average of four crashes a day involving drivers crashing into Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) trucks.   However, a metal mobile barrier, tested by Washington’s Department of Transportation, protected workers when a driver crashed his pickup into a work zone on Interstate 5 near Vancouver this summer.   The barrier not only improves safety, it also reduces the time for setting up construction zones.