{"id":271160,"date":"2026-08-24T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271160\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:32:11","slug":"operation-yellow-jacket-returns-to-work-zones-in-juniata-mifflin-counties-penndot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271160\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Operation Yellow Jacket&#8217; returns to work zones in Juniata, Mifflin counties: PennDOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNIATA COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and Pennsylvania State Police are ramping up enforcement efforts in highway work zones across several central Pennsylvania counties through &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/penndot\/news-and-media\/newsroom\/district-2\/2026\/penndot--pennsylvania-state-police-announce--operation-yellow-ja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Operation Yellow Jacket<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This initiative intends to target tailgating, speeding, and distracted driving, PennDOT announced. The effort will include Mifflin and Juniata counties.<\/p>\n<p>In active work zones, troopers wearing hard hats and safety vests will monitor traffic for violations. When a trooper sees a violation, it will alert another trooper parked ahead to pull them over, PennDOT announced. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is not to write tickets. Our goal is to prevent the violations that would warrant a ticket from happening in the first place,\u201d Trooper Jake Rhymestine, public information officer for State Police Troop G, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>State law requires drivers to slow down, turn on headlights, and follow posted speed limits and traffic patterns in work zones.<\/p>\n<p>Work zones represent threats to more than just highway workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to PennDOT, Pennsylvania recorded nearly 1,400 work zone crashes in 2025, resulting in 12 deaths and 805 injuries. Only one of the 12 people killed was a highway worker, underscoring the risk work zone crashes pose to motorists as well as road crews.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1970, 93 PennDOT workers have died in the line of duty, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, PennDOT said distracted and aggressive driving are among the leading factors contributing to work zone crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists can check road conditions, traffic delays, and construction information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.511pa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">511PA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUNIATA COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and Pennsylvania State Police are ramping up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-271160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}