{"id":204782,"date":"2026-04-21T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204782\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:21:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mother-of-fallen-dot-worker-urges-drivers-to-slow-down-through-work-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204782\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mother Of Fallen Dot Worker Urges Drivers To Slow Down Through Work Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A mother who lost her son to a drunk driver nearly two years ago is helping Gov. Ned Lamont promote National Work Zone Awareness Week.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Shari DiDomenico&#8217;s son, Andrew, was a highway worker. <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/police-dot-worker-struck-and-killed-by-car-on-i-91-south-in-wallingford-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An intoxicated driver<\/a> killed Andrew on June 28, 2024, as he was cleaning the side of I-91 in Wallingford.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Shari DiDomenico is now urging drivers to slow down in Connecticut&#8217;s work zones.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Andrew was only 26 years old and he should be here today. He should have a future full of milestones, laughter and ordinary moments that we often take for granted,&#8221; said Shari DiDomenico.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Just in the last few weeks, drivers have struck several DOT work trucks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/police-dot-worker-struck-and-killed-by-car-on-i-91-south-in-wallingford-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police: DOT worker struck and killed by car on I-91 south in Wallingford<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/arraignment-held-for-driver-who-struck-and-killed-a-dot-worker-in-wallingford-last-week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arraignment held for driver who struck and killed a DOT worker in Wallingford last week<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/no-more-slaps-on-the-wrist-dot-workers-family-demands-change-after-deadly-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018No more slaps on the wrist.\u2019 DOT worker\u2019s family demands change after deadly crash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother who lost her son to a drunk driver nearly two years ago is helping Gov. Ned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-204782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}