When you see the orange barrels on the highway, remember to slow down.

The State Highway Patrol is launching its Operation Drive Smart 2009 initiative April 6-12. It's a joint effort with the North Carolina Department of Transportation to crack down on reckless driving in work zones.

Officers on motorcycles, and in marked and unmarked cars, will aggressively be enforcing driving laws like speeding over the week to try to save lives. The NCDOT says more than four out of five people killed in work zone accidents are motorists.

"It's been a while since we've had a worker killed in a work zone," said Capt. Everett Clendenin, public information officer for the highway patrol. "We're very happy about that. But we're still having motorists killed in these work zones. So this is an effort by the patrol and the DOT to stop that, too."

There are currently more than 200 major work zones in North Carolina, but Operation Drive Smart will put much of its focus on some of the busiest sites, including:

-I-95 in Cumberland County
-I-85/I-40 in Guilford, Alamance, Orange counties
-I-77 in Yadkin County
-NC 24/27 in Stanly County
-I-40 in Buncombe, McDowell counties
-I-26 in Henderson County

A speeding ticket in a work zone could cost a driver $250, plus court costs and points against his or her driver's license.