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[highway noise] >> SHILOH: That morning we had been working
on some concrete box culverts in our center median.
[music swells]
I was standing at the back of the truck watching up the road, watching traffic and a red suburban
was coming towards us never would get over in the other lane, just creeping farther and
farther off onto the ten foot shoulder and I could tell you know when she was getting
pretty close that they were just coming closer to us instead of farther away from us.
Everybody pretty much knows it would be a dangerous job to work on the highway, but
you really don't understand how dangerous it is until you are standing right there on
that line, and traffic is going by 70 or 80 miles an hour.
When she hit our truck it was like something exploding, there was pieces of metal and plastic
flying everywhere and cones out of the back of our truck, they just shot off like confetti,
you know. Very loud just like an explosion.
Cell phones. We see a lot of cell phones every day almost every car that passes you someone is talking
on a cell phone.
>> SAM: I mean it's happened... I've only been out here for ten years but I mean it's
just time after time, we get run off the highway.
>> SHILOH: Please don't talk on your cell phone when you're driving down the highway.
>> SAM: I've been in my pickup before and looked behind me and somebody coming on the
shoulder and somebody coming right at me and had to shoot off the road, it just seems like
it happens all the time.
>> SHILOH: You might drive 100 miles and never see someone working on the roads, but when
you see those signs and cones, it's a pretty sure deal that somebody's going to be in
the area working, just take a few extra precautions and everybody can go home at the end of the day.
>>SAM: There's probably no telling how many state workers and other construction workers gotta work zone out fixing the road.
And we are fixing the road to help the public, it ain't because we want to be out there,
it's our job. And to help the public we have to set those work zones up, so just
show us a little respect.