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New TDOT website launches with safety emphasis

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Department of Transportation is stressing highway construction zone safety by launching TDOT SmartWay Mobile for smartphones.

Gov. Bill Haslam has declared this week Work Zone Awareness Week in Tennessee.

With warmer weather, more road construction and utility work along roadways is ramping up statewide.

TDOT says 85 percent of those killed in work zones nationally are drivers and their passengers. Eight people died in construction zone crashes in 2010 in Tennessee. All of them were drivers or their passengers.

The new SmartWay Mobile website works like an application, but there is no download and no cost for its use.

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