enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Jersey barrier - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier

   Jersey barriers on the road. A Jersey barrier, Jersey wall, or Jersey bump is a modular concrete or plastic barrier employed to separate lanes of traffic.It is designed to minimize vehicle damage in cases of incidental contact while still preventing vehicle crossovers resulting in a likely head-on collision.

3. Traffic barrier - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_barrier

   Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...

4. Impact attenuator - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_attenuator

   A crash cushion installed on a motorway exit in Italy. An impact attenuator, also known as a crash cushion, crash attenuator, or cowboy cushion, is a device intended to reduce the damage to structures, vehicles, and motorists resulting from a motor vehicle collision. Impact attenuators are designed to absorb the colliding vehicle's kinetic energy.

5. Concrete step barrier - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_step_barrier

   The usage of the concrete step barrier has become widespread in Ireland. As of 2017, 530 kilometres (330 mi) of motorways use this barrier. Some motorways such as parts of the M8 and M6 have had the crash barrier since their original construction. Other motorways had it installed as part of their upgrade (M50).

6. SAFER barrier - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFER_barrier

   The Steel And Foam Energy Reduction Barrier (SAFER Barrier), sometimes generically referred to as a soft wall, is a technology found on oval automobile race tracks and high-speed sections of road and street tracks, intended to absorb and reduce kinetic energy during the impact of a high-speed crash, and thus, lessen injuries sustained to ...

7. Busch crash leading to additional SAFER barriers at tracks - AOL

   www.aol.com/article/2015/02/25/busch-crash...

   CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- International Speedway Corp. is developing a plan for the installation of additional SAFER barriers at Daytona and Talladega, and will review the safety standards at its ...