Pushing safety: Pennsyslvania Turnpike reduces crashes in work zones - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Pushing safety: Pennsyslvania Turnpike reduces crashes in work zones - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Bill McGuigan had no idea when he went to work as an equipment operator for the Pennsylvania Turnpike in June 2015 that he was about to become a key figure in the agency’s safety history. Shortly after 8 a.m. that day, McGuigan, 61, was killed when a speeding tractor-trailer driver veered into the closed lane where he was working in Chester County and struck him and another worker, who had minor injuries. That tragedy and other work-zone inciden…