Driver Strikes Highway Workers in Maryland, Killing 6

grandmother’s reaction on the phone. “Can you imagine? To tell a mother, ‘Your sons aren’t returning.’ It’s not easy.”

George Durm, the husband of another victim, Ms. DiMaggio, said in a brief interview that he wanted to make two things clear: that Ms. DiMaggio loved her job, which she had been doing for about eight years, and that “she was terrified of this job site.”

“She told me every day why she was afraid of it, but I wouldn’t know how to express that to you,” Mr. Durm said, adding: “She was scared, man. She was afraid of this site.”

He said he did not want to elaborate on exactly why she was fearful of the site where the crash occurred because he was unfamiliar with the technical explanations.

Ms. DiMaggio was working at the site on Wednesday for a construction company called KCI, which did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Thursday.

She was described by her husband as a “ball of energy” who loved the rock band 311, hiking and spending afternoons tending to her garden.

“I don’t know where I’m supposed to pick up where she left off,” Mr. Durm said. “I don’t know what to do. I’m kind of lost.”

State and local leaders, who said they were monitoring the crash, expressed their condolences to the families of the highway workers.

On Twitter, Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland said, “My heart goes out to the victims and the families affected by the tragic crash.”