Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Safety: and if the guard rail does not contain?

The containment barriers at the sides of roads ... contain. In some cases, the guard rail has not done its job and some motorist off the road with serious consequences, which could have been avoided with modern tools and well kept. The alarm comes from 'Friends Association Supporting the Traffic Police, who highlighted the ineffectiveness of these elements that potentially save lives, but often they are "shamefully ineffective" because they can be turned into dangerous weapons that hurt people in the car, although the technology has already led to Wal-effective barriers.

The association stresses its concern that there is no rule requiring the owner of a road authority to replace such barriers with new generation products that avoid damage sensational as those occurring at the rally driver Robert Kubica who precisely because of a guard rail in a bad state it was almost sliced \u200b\u200bhis right hand, despite not going to a very high speed.

The consequence of this permanent legis vacatio is that it is difficult to do justice and that too because of several factors. The association then launches a kind of provocation, "Why not allocate to the institutions own the roads as the equivalent of what the cost to society of road accident victims if the institution demonstrates to invest to reduce the accident record?".

Meanwhile Asap started to look at the minutes of the police, noting that the dynamics of incidents reported at the weekend by the Traffic Police and the Carabinieri, in the first two months of this year total well over 153 fatalities 71 , ie 46.4% are due to its exit from the roadway or impact against a fixed obstacle.

"These - continues the association - would be interesting to know how many cases the guard rail was a negative character." Or maybe four would have been avoided if the container had contained.

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