Posts Tagged ‘guardrail safety’

Submitted by Personal Injury Attorney, Jeffrey Hark Originally posted here by the New York Times. Concern over the safety of guardrails manufactured by Trinity Industries spread further on Wednesday as two more states said they would ban the use of the company’s ET-Plus rail head, which is thought to have a dangerous defect. A day…

Submitted by Jeffrey Hark, Personal Injury Lawyer Originally published by the New York Times here. Trinity Industries, the highway guardrail maker accused of selling systems that can malfunction during crashes and slice through cars, was found by a jury on Monday to have defrauded the federal government. The case was brought under the False Claims…

Submitted by Personal Injury lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. Originally published here by the New York Times. The guardrail that Darius Williams’s car struck in February should have curled safely away. Instead, it became a spear. By last month, state transportation officials in Missouri said they had seen enough. Federal highway officials had long insisted that guardrails…