This is Work Zone Awareness Week and a Macomb County man who lost a loved one is reminding everyone to drive safely. Steve Morrissette lost his cousin, 26-year-old Zach Morrissette, when he was working in a construction zone in 2020 and was hit and killed. He says drivers should think about work zone crashes.
“I know they’ve probably heard it a lot or heard it hundreds of times that it’s someone’s da or someone’s mom or an aunt or uncle working in the work zones, but to get a perspective of it could be a life changing event,” Morrissette said. “So, it it’s that important that you need to slow down and not be distracted in a work zone.”
Morrissette says Zach’s death has been tough on his family, especially Zach’s parents. Work zone crash fatalities aren’t unknown in southwest Michigan. Benton Township Supervisor Kevin White was killed in October of 2019 when he was struck by a tire that flew off a semi while working alongside I-94 near mile marker 33. In 2021, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill renaming I-94 from the I-196 interchange to Napier Avenue the Kevin D. White Memorial Highway.
