[MR] New Pennsylvania Traffic Laws

[Olwen the Odd]

> > Good Gentles,
> >
> > An important FYI for those of you travelling to Southern Region War
> > Camp this weekend or Pennsic War over the next several weeks.
> >
> > Pennsylvania's new Work Zone Safety Law went into effect on June 23,
> > 2003.  The new law creates additional requirements for highway
> > contractors and motorists that are designed to save lives in highway
> > work zones.  New, strict penalties, including a 15-day driver's
>license
> > suspension will be imposed on motorists convicted of driving
> > dangerously in work zones.
> >
> > Key points of the new law include (from information available at
> > www.dot.state.pa.us and several PA newspaper reports):
> >
> > Motorists are required to travel with their headlights on in all
>posted
> > work zones (whether they are active or not). Vehicles equiped with
> > daytime running lights must turn on their headlights to activate their
> > taillights.
> >
> > Active work zones will be designated as such to notify motorists when
> > they enter and leave the work zone. A white flashing light attached to
> > an "Active Work Zone When Flashing" sign indicates an active work
>zone.
> > The flashing light will only be on when workers are present and turned
> > off when workers are not present.
> >
> > Interstate work zones with a project cost exceeding $300,000 will have
> > a speed-monitoring device to alert motorists of their speed prior to
> > entering the work zone.  (This is important for the points discussed
> > below).  Additionally, while not noted in PennDOT's official Fact
>Sheet
> > on the new law, the law requires that a PA State Trooper will be
> > present in active, "large" work zones.  Be assured that these troopers
> > will have additional speed-monitoring devices.
> >
> > Motorists caught driving 11 miles per hour or more above the posted
> > speed limit in an active work zone, or who are involved in a crash in
> > an active work zone and are convicted for failing to drive at a safe
> > speed, automatically will lose their license for 15 days.
> >
> > Details of the new law may be found at www.dot.state.pa.us.
> >
> > Feel free to re-post this to other lists.  My apologies to those on
>several lists who will receive this message more than once.
> >
> > Dinsdale
> >
> > Baron Dinsdale of Northumbria
> > mka Tony Leshinskie
>
>

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