Conventional guardrail systems are constructed on the jobsite of lumber and are time-consuming to build and erect, require constant maintenance and are commonly discarded as waste at the conclusion of ...

South Carolina Department of Transportation officials announced Friday that it has suspended the installation of a new guardrail system after a lawsuit was filed by a grieving husband whose wife was ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on the ...

In the 1990s, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility looked into the then-50-year-old highway guardrail system and found it to be incapable of handling the increasing number of SUVs and pickups at the ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, ...

When a 7,000-pound electric pickup truck tore through a guardrail at highway speed during a crash test, it confirmed what many safety experts fear: The protective systems lining America’s roads are ...

ManTech International Corp. has received a two-year Army task order worth $22.6 million for software engineering services. Under its Strategic Services Sourcing prime contract, ManTech will provide ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - For the second time in less than a year, a failed crash test is raising concerns that highway guardrails may not be able to handle electric vehicles (EVs). In a recent test ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — “You're seeing the car make contact with the rail. The rail lifts up and deforms backward and it does eventually rupture,” James Kovar, an assistant research scientist at the Texas A&M ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on ...

C ontroversial guardrail systems on many of California’s freeways are being taken out of service in another state because of safety concerns. After testing the Trinity Enterprises ET-Plus guardrail ...

Map of Fillmore Street Utility Improvements in Lynchburg. LINCOLN, Neb. – Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that ...