Bells Toll Throughout Delaware / Survivors Plead: Move Over, Slow Down: It’s the Law by
Smyrna — “It’s hard to move on. It’s hard to make new memories, and I can’t change the old ones.”
— Deborah Nelson, three years after her husband Phillip Nelson Jr., 42, was killed in a work zone. At 11 am this morning, the sons of Phillip Nelson, a DelDOT employee killed within a work zone on Father’s Day 2006, tolled a bell 32 times in memory of their father and all the DelDOT employees killed in the line of duty, opening a press conference held at the Smyrna Rest Area in observance of National Work Zone Awareness Week. [More]