RX Accident
09-10-04, 01:19 AM
#19
Lexus Fanatic
There is a campaign nationwide to update all guard rails to current safety standards....which means bending them down into the ground at each end so that a vehicle simply overrides and straddles them instead of having them do what happened incrash.....penetrate the front end. Obviously, there are still a lot of rails they havent gotten to yet.
On some rails where this is impractical or unsafe they are instead placing big, soft, thickly padded padded barriers at each end.
On some rails where this is impractical or unsafe they are instead placing big, soft, thickly padded padded barriers at each end.
09-10-04, 01:33 AM
#21
Pole Position
Originally posted by mmarshall
There is a campaign nationwide to update all guard rails to current safety standards....which means bending them down into the ground at each end so that a vehicle simply overrides and straddles them instead of having them do what happened in [that] crash.....
There is a campaign nationwide to update all guard rails to current safety standards....which means bending them down into the ground at each end so that a vehicle simply overrides and straddles them instead of having them do what happened in [that] crash.....
I guess that's still better than a galvanized steel shank exploding thru your dashboard.
Only so much you can do I guess. It's not like light poles and trees have those water-filled vehicle attenuators on them either.
09-10-04, 01:48 AM
#22
Lexus Fanatic
Originally posted by CleanSC
Am I the only one that thinks this will lead to a horrific rollover like a pipe ramp?
Am I the only one that thinks this will lead to a horrific rollover like a pipe ramp?
First, the rails themselves are only a couple of feet high. They're also generally narrow enough that an auto tire...especially one of today's wider-treads.... is not going to ride them perfect enough, long enough to raise the side of the vehicle that high.
Second, vehicles like the Miata and MR2 that sit low enough so that they WOULD be raised quite a bit by a design like that are quite resistant to rollovers to start with due to their low centers of gravity.
The basic concept of padding or burying the ends of guard rails is certainly not new....the idea and concept goes back to the 1950's.
09-10-04, 11:49 AM
#23
Pole Position
thats just crazy!
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