Delaware Work Zone Laws

How Delaware handles work zones

Delaware doubles the fine for any moving violation you pick up inside a marked highway work zone, workers or not — the zone runs from the first traffic-control device to the last (21 Del. C. § 4105(f)). Electronic Speed Safety Program cameras on the I-95/Route 896 and SR 1 projects clock you at 11+ over with no officer present, and the total is doubled. The statewide handheld ban covers the zone. Obey the flagger.

Speed, fines, phone, and the flagger

• Speed rule: The posted work-zone limit holds from the first cone to the last. Any traffic fine you earn inside the marked zone is doubled, workers or not, and speed cameras enforce the limit at 11+ over with no crew present.
• Fine multiplier: Fines doubled for any traffic offense committed inside a highway work zone (21 Del. C. § 4105(f)). Camera tickets add a $20 base plus about $1 per mph over, then the total is doubled; the first captured offense is a written warning.
• Phone in a work zone: Restricted — put it down
• Flagger authority: Obey the flagger. Delaware authorizes certified flaggers to control traffic through a work zone, including overriding signals, and you must follow the paddle (21 Del. C. § 4101; DelDOT MUTCD Part 6).
• Base fine: Base traffic fine doubled inside the zone; camera tickets run a $20 base plus a per-mph amount, then doubled (first offense is a warning).

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