A 2-minute lesson from the Kentucky course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
A work zone is an area of roadwork that may involve lane closures, detours and moving equipment. Work zones have become increasingly dangerous for both workers and drivers.
About 40,000
People injured each year in motor vehicle crashes in work zones
When approaching a work zone, watch for signs, cones, barrels, large vehicles and workers. Work zone signs have an orange background with black letters or symbols.
Kentucky allows fines to be doubled in a highway work zone when signs announce the work zone and that fines are doubled there, and at least one bona fide worker is present.
At 11 p.m. you enter a lit work zone with no workers in sight. Slow down anyway, leave extra following distance, and keep obeying the work zone signs until you pass the 'End Road Work' sign.
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.
Work zone signs typically feature which color background?
Yellow
Green
Blue
Orange
Answer: Orange
Work zone signs have an orange background with black letters or symbols.
