As the weather continues to warm up, more road construction projects are popping up across our region.

On Monday, state police, PennDOT and the Highway Safety Network announced “Operation Yellow Jacket,” which will include work-zone speed enforcement in Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and Elk counties.

Troopers will sit "in PennDOT vehicles,” wearing PennDOT issued hardhats and vests, while watching for speeding, tailgating and distracted driving.

It's being done in an effort to reduce the number of work-zone fatalities across the state.

"These workers have families just like you do, they have families to go home to, and we wouldn't be unsafe around our own family members, right? We want to make sure we're treating these work zone workers the same way,” says Highway Safety Network coordinator Josh Woods.

PennDOT says there were more than 12-hundred work zone crashes, resulting in 22 deaths, last year.

This year there have been several crashes already, including the one that killed three workers from a Somerset County company.

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