Arkansas driving lesson · Work Zones, Signs & Signals
Work zones: signs, lights & double fines
A 3-minute lesson from the Arkansas course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Work zones put people on foot a few feet from moving traffic. In Arkansas, work zone crashes rose by more than 70% from 2018 to 2021, and many of the people hurt are drivers, not workers. Slow down, put the phone away, and move over.
1,600+
Work zone crashes in Arkansas in 2024, causing more than 53 serious injuries or fatalities
Speed limits in work zones may be reduced and lanes restricted. Any reduced speed will be clearly posted; if no reduced limit is posted, obey the normal posted speed limit.
Flashing green lights on construction and maintenance vehicles (used with yellow or white lights) mean an active work zone, standard or mobile. Use caution and slow down.
Work zone signs may be diamond or rectangular, with an orange, white or black background and white or black letters or symbols. They warn of reduced speed, detours, slow equipment and poor or changing road surfaces.
When workers are present, any moving violation in a work zone (speeding, reckless or distracted driving and more) costs double the fine. Mobile work zones count the same as standard ones.
Holding your phone to call, text, look up directions or scroll social media is a moving violation. If you can't use a hands-free connection, don't use your phone.
When you see signs that you're entering a work zone, begin to slow down, and keep the reduced speed until you see a posted speed limit sign. Speed cameras are used in Interstate work zones so officers can stop violators at the exit.
You're on I-30 and pass a sign saying WORK ZONE, then a 45 mph sign. Slow to 45 and keep it there, phone down, until you pass a posted speed limit sign after the work area. A speeding ticket here costs double.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
If workers are present, what happens to the fine for a moving violation in an Arkansas work zone?
It is tripled
It is doubled
It rises by $250
It stays the same
Answer: It is doubled
Any moving traffic violation in a work zone with workers present carries double the fine.
