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Controversial guardrail system must face new tests

2014-10-27 11:05:14| Railroads - Topix.net

The federal government has ordered a highway guardrail manufacturer accused of selling guardrails that can fail and pierce cars like spears to submit a plan for additional testing by Friday. The move comes in the wake of a landmark jury verdict last week, which found Trinity Industries defrauded the federal government after it failed to disclose design changes in its guardrail end terminal known as the ET-Plus.

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State DOTs Taking Controversial Guardrail Model Off of Approved List

2014-10-21 18:41:31| ENR.com: Headline News

Virginia's transportation department this month followed Missouri, Nevada and Massachusetts in taking off a controversial guardrail end-terminal model from its approved highway-products list. The ET-Plus model, which includes a steel fixture that is meant to absorb a vehicle's impact, is the subject of various lawsuits claiming the fixture has acted, instead, as a deadly spear.

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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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