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Obviously if it weren't for distracted drivers, stupid decisions, drunk drivers, etc. then the accidents wouldn't have happened.
In 2005, they changed the design of their guardrails without notifying the Federal Highway Administration (which is illegal). In addition to notifying the FHA about these changes that were made, they are supposed to have crash tests. They did have those crash tests; however, the court has found that they never disclosed the results to authorities. Well, what were the results you ask? 5 failed crash tests!
The following states have banned Trinity Industries’ ET-Plus guardrail system: Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Mississippi, Virginia, Louisiana, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
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Vermont, Hawaii and Colorado said they had placed moratoriums on buying and installing the ET-Plus rail heads. A rail head is a flat piece of steel at the front of a guardrail that is meant to slide along the rail on impact, pushing the metal safely out of the way.
I saw this report on 60 minutes or some show after Shark Tank a month or so ago. The company saved some money to make the guardrails thinner and now make the guardrails into spears that kill.
I've read up on this issue; I saw a couple of reports about it and the Dallas Morning News ran a story about it a little while back; these things are horrifying.
There's other crap designs. Everytime I drive near the cable ones I can't help, but wonder how deadly those would be to motorcyclists.
I've thought of that as well. It could be bad...very bad.
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