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Four States Have Suspended Use of Controversial Guardrail
2014-10-16 23:38:06| Railroads - Topix.net
Virginia has become the fourth state to halt the use of a controversial guardrail system that it says was never approved for use on its roadways and is now at the center of a contentious safety lawsuit. A letter from Virginia's State Construction Engineer in the Virginia Department of Transportation to its area engineers says that after a version of the guardrail system was approved for use in 2000, the guardrail maker, Trinity Industries, changed the design of the guardrail in 2005, including reducing the width of a piece in the guardrail's end terminal from five inches to four, and "did not notify the Department of the modification."
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