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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 .
The F-shape barrier is a concrete crash barrier, originally designed to divide lanes of traffic on a highway. It is a modification of the widely used Jersey barrier design, and is generally considered safer. [1] A parametric study, one that systematically varies the parameters, was done through computer simulations of barrier profiles labeled A ...
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 ...
A screenshot from a video obtained by the New Jersey Herald shows the aftermath of a May 27 crash on Route 23 in Franklin Borough, showing a collision between a Honda Prelude and a borough patrol ...
Six people were killed in a fiery car crash in Newark, New Jersey late Friday, prosecutors announced.. A vehicle with six individuals was traveling toward the Route 1&9 southbound on-ramp, less ...
A 1956 article in the Asbury Park Press cited a suggestion by the state's top highway planner to add a "jug-handle" on Route 35 to facilitate the flow of traffic. [3] One of the earliest mentions of jughandles in The New York Times is on June 14, 1959, referring to jughandles having been built in New Jersey on U.S. Route 46 in Montville, U.S. Route 22 between North Plainfield and Bound Brook ...
A New Jersey commuter train accelerated to twice the speed limit shortly before it crashed into a station in Hoboken last week, investigators said.
The accident was the New York City area's worst train accident since the 1958 Newark Bay rail accident. [ 7 ] Following the accident, Comet II cab car #5146 was scrapped, while GP40PH-2 #4110 and Comet I cab car #5120 continued in revenue service until their eventual retirement and in the case of Comet I cab car #5120, donation to the Whippany ...