The Federal Highway Administration has designated April 21st through April 25th, 2025                    

as National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week, with this year's campaign slogan being, 

“Work Zones are temporary. Actions behind the wheel can last forever”, which focuses

on awareness to all drivers in work zones of their speed and proximity to workers. 

The Wisconsin County Highway Association is asking all seventy-two (72) counties                       

in the state to unite and kick-off “National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week” with

a resolution and campaign to raise awareness for its workers and those of various

highway contractors performing work for the counties. According to data from

UW Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory’s Community Maps between

2019 and 2023, there were 64 fatalities recorded as a result of more than 10,000 crashes

within work zones which injured more than 3,800 people. Construction and maintenance

 activities on our streets and highways periodically require that work zones be established

to complete our work, and to protect the workers performing the work, as well as the

motoring public. Sadly, there has been an average of 2,336 work zone crashes in

Wisconsin in each of the last five years, with 2168 crashes occurring in road

construction and maintenance zones, resulting in over 712 injuries and 10 fatalities in 2023 alone!

With the support of the Wisconsin Counties Highway Association,

the Adams County Sheriffs Department and Wisconsin State Patrol

through enforcement efforts and awareness initiatives, please join the

Adams County Highway Department in advertising and recognizing

April 21-25, 2025 as National Work Zone Awareness Week.