Along with the July sun and January cold, traffic can be the bane of highway workers’ existence. Flaggers directing traffic in work zones have an especially dangerous job, since they are charged with ...

Surrey’s Jolene James has seen some crazy sights in the four years she’s worked as a flagger for Imperial Paving. “I saw a girl driving and painting her toenails once. Her foot was up on the dash ...

In the summertime drivers can always expect to come across more work zones on the road, and there is a pivotal role on those crews that ensure cars make it through in a safe and orderly fashion – the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The diamond-shaped orange caution signs as you approach them still show a silhouette of a human worker holding a flag, and maybe they always will. But increasingly, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A flagger in a U.S. 340 work zone near Charles Town was struck by a sport utility vehicle Thursday morning ...

Massachusetts has saved nearly $12 million in the year-plus since it started using civilian flaggers to direct traffic at some road construction sites, state officials say, providing factual ...

WORKERS AND ALSO MOTORISTS SAFE. IN NOVEMBER, A FLAGGER WAS STRUCK AND SERIOUSLY INJURED. WE SPOKE WITH SHARON DOWNING AND SHE SAYS HER DAUGHTER APRIL WAS HIT WHILE WORKING AN OVERNIGHT SHIFT ON ...