The Missouri Department of Transportation has banned a type of highway guardrail implicated in the deaths of at least 14 motorists, including one Missouri man. <\/p>\n
Missouri resident Brad Abeln was killed in January after another driver swerved and pushed him into the guardrail. <\/p>\n
According to whistleblowers, the faulty guardrail contains a steel bar that should function as a shock absorber but instead acts as a sort of bayonet, piercing through the automobile body and injuring or killing those inside. A whistleblower trial against the manufacturer, Trinity Industries, is underway in a federal court in Texas. <\/p>\n
The New York Times has found emails showing that official concerns about the fatal consequences of the guardrail design date back to 2012. Those concerns were not made public, and states did not begin banning the guardrail until this year.<\/p>\n
In the wake of Abeln\u2019s death, the state of Missouri and a non-profit (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Missouri Department of Transportation has banned a type of highway guardrail implicated in the deaths of at least 14 motorists, including one Missouri man. Missouri resident Brad Abeln was killed in January after another driver swerved and pushed him…<\/span><\/p>\n