Eleven people have died in crashes involving wrong-way drivers in the Bay area this year.

Those deaths have state and local officials searching for ways to stop drivers from making a fatal turn up expressway ramps.

Zebediah Lanier lost his ex-wife in one of those crashes, and he wants to make sure that what happened to her doesn't happen to anyone else.

"I want to work together in any way possible I can to get down to the bottom of what's going on with our roadways and what can we do to ensure that no other family has to go through what my family went through and other families as well," he said.

To that end, state officials are testing a new type of sign. It's a standard wrong-way sign with amber beacons on the top and bottom.  Attached to the sign is a sensor that can tell if a car is driving the wrong way up the ramp.  The flashing beacons alert the driver to their mistake before the car gets to the mainline interstate lanes.

Officials say the next generation of the signs will include a camera, which will take a video or photo of the vehicle on the ramp, and through a cellular connection, send it directly to the Florida Highway Patrol. The Florida Highway Patrol will then dispatch a trooper and have the overhead message boards changed to alert other drivers of the danger.

The cost is $30,000 per interchange. Should  the pilot program be deemed successful the State will invest $2.4 million to equip 80 interchanges with the new signs.