officials have repeatedly noted the X-LITE model has passed crash and safety tests and remains approved for use by the Federal Highway Administration. In statements provided by a company representative, Lindsay Corp. The terminals "are not doing what they're designed to do," he said. "They’re supposed to telescope to absorb the energy and bring the vehicle to a controlled stop, and that’s not what’s happening." She suffered massive head injuries and was killed." "Rather than telescoping, the guardrail rode up over the hood, crushed the windshield and literally whipped the roof open like a can opener," Curcio said in a phone conversation Wednesday. "The second section of guardrail penetrated the firewall, came over the left side of the motor and punched open the driver’s door. 23 last year to see her parents for Christmas when she drove off the left side of Interstate 66 in Fauquier County and hit an X-LITE end "almost head-on," Curcio said. The woman killed in that crash was 37-year-old Sarah Weinberg, according to Thomas Curcio, an attorney retained by Weinberg's family. Herman didn't immediately specify whether any of the other crashes were fatal. The guardrail end impaled the vehicle in just one of those crashes, killing the driver. 31, 2013, and March 27, 2017, according to Virginia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Marshall Herman. Virginia has less than 1,000 X-LITE ends on state roads, and 37 of those were involved in crashes between Oct. When asked if Missouri might replace the guardrails, Schroeter said, "We haven’t taken action yet, but I can’t say that we won’t."
Schroeter was unable to say how many of the terminals are on state roads, but said the Missouri Department of Transportation stopped repairing and installing the X-LITE - as well as all guardrails approved under the NCHRP 350 crash standards - last July. At least one of those crashes involved the guardrail end impaling the vehicle, he said. In Missouri, at least two people have died in crashes involving X-LITE ends since the state began using them in 2015, according to state design engineer Eric Schroeter.
0 kommentar(er)
