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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.
On 24 May 2021, at 20:33 local Malaysia time, a head-on collision occurred between a manually-driven empty train and an automated train carrying passengers, on the Kelana Jaya line between Kampung Baru and KLCC stations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The collision caused 213 injuries, including 166 minor injuries and 47 serious injuries. [1]
The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 South State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free Wi-Fi ...
The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.It consists of 81 locations, including a central library, three regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the city's 77 Community Areas. [5]
The same firm also designed the Harold Washington Library. [6] The $5.5 million, 65,000 square feet (6,000 m 2) building replaced the Frederick H. Hild Regional Library, [7] [8] named for the second librarian of the Chicago Public Library, who secured its first permanent home (now the Chicago Cultural Center). [9]
Switzerland said on Tuesday it was concerned by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's proposals to raise tariffs and is considering how to respond if his new administration does so. Trump aims to ...
John Crerar Library; Location: Hyde Park, Chicago, United States: Type: free, semi-public: Scope: current science, technology, and medicine: Established: 1894: Branch of: University of Chicago Library: Collection; Size: 1.4 million [1] Access and use; Access requirements: open to members of the public with specific research needs related to the ...
The city’s hated new congestion toll could dangerously delay FDNY response times — meaning the “difference between life and death,” unions repping thousands of Bravest warned Sunday.. The ...