Next week (May 6-10) is Work-Zone Safety Week and Illinois State Police District 7 will take part in Operation Hard Hat. Troopers will trade in their squad and badge for a truck and hard hat to blend in with the zone’s workers while looking for speeders, distracted drivers and any other violations that pose a threat to work zones on a daily basis. District 7 has been patrolling these work zones in a marked car for high visibility patrols. Unfortunately, some drivers have taken advantage of seeing the squad car and corrected their traffic violations until they no longer see a squad car, then speed up, pull their phone back out or perform some other reckless act behind the wheel. District 7 includes Mercer, Henry, Rock Island and Knox Counties.
