Jay Scott Traylor was driving on a highway in North Carolina when his car struck a guardrail that was fitted with an ET-Plus end terminal. The terminal, manufactured by Trinity Highway Products, LLC, comprised three main components—an impact plate, guide channels, and an extruder head. When attached to the end of a standard guardrail, the unit was designed to absorb and dissipate crash forces by permitting the guardrail to be extruded through the unit’s head and flattened out into a ribbon. . [Traylor v. Trinity Indus., Inc.] When Traylor’s car struck the guardrail, the ET-Plus end treatment failed to absorb to energy of the crash. Instead, it penetrated the driver’s side floorboard area of Traylor’s car and entered the occupant compartment, impaling him. He suffered life-threatening injuries resulting in bilateral leg amputations. Traylor sued Trinity and its parent company, alleging that …show more content…
John C. Darko’s is a 36-year veteran of the highway safety apparatus manufacturing and vice president of Technical Support and Marketing for Road Systems Inc., one of only three companies producing energy-absorbing guardrail ends in the U.S. He said when Lindsay Transportation Solutions came on the scene, it didn't have much initial success. That was until Trinity Highway Products was taken to court for allegations of fraud in connection with its ET-Plus guardrail end. The company was ordered to pay a $663 million settlement in 2015 after a jury found the company liable for fraud. Trinity is appealing. "Trinity took the ET-Plus off the market, and that opened the door to Lindsay to be able to offer a product to the states so they had two to compete with,” Darko’s said. With many states requiring competitive bidding processes, whenever possible, the X-Lite immediately became a contender in the
This study offers helpful information for anyone who wants to understand more about emergency vehicle lights and their physical and psychological effects on drivers. However, anyone that is charged with installing or buying emergency vehicle lights for first responder and emergency responder vehicles should read and understand this study. By understanding the information in this article, buyers and installers can save money, avoid aggravation, and help to protect officers, first responders, and emergency responders who are working and driving vehicles in the field.
When inditing, authors incline to tell their own personal story through their literature work, sometimes done unknowingly or deliberately. Albeit some components of the author’s work are fabricated and do not connect with their own personal lives whatsoever, this is sometimes what causes a reader to do their own research about the author and their background of the story. Upon researching Wallace Stegner’s novel Crossing to Safety, one may discover that he did indeed, reveal bits and pieces of his own experiences in his novel. “You break experience up into pieces and you put them together in different amalgamations, incipient cumulations, and some are authentic and some are not… It takes a pedestrian and literal mind to be apprehensive about
DOI: 08/17/2010. The patient is a 55-year-old female assembly worker who incurred a work-related injury when she fell with her face forward after tripping on a curb.
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Plaintiff Housing and Redevelopment Authority of Redwood Falls (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Housing Authority Property Insurance (“Defendant”) participated in an appraisal hearing to resolve their dispute regarding the scope and value of a fire loss that damaged Plaintiff’s insureds buildings. The appraisal panel considered evidence and testimony presented by both parties, determined the value of the loss, and issued an appraisal award in the amount of $3,097,512.80.
Visser, Steve (January 11, 2008). "MARTA blames brakes and weak motor for escalator accidents". Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In 1966, the National Highway Safety Bureau (NHSB) was designed by the Highway Act. NHSB’s director, Dr. William Haddon, noticed that he could prevent motor-vehicle injuries by applying public health methods and epidemiology. Various passages demanded the government to set standards for the highway and motor vehicles. The federal government responded by developing new safety features in cars such as safety belts, head rests, and shatter-resistant windshields. Barriers, reflectors, and center line strips were placed on roadways to provide direction and illumination. Traffic safety laws, wearing a safety belt, and public education encouraged drivers to make safer decisions. The use of safety belts has skyrocketed from 11% in 1981 to 68% in 1997 and decreases When the community and government understood the necessity for motor-vehicle safety, various programs such as Prior to the implementation, the rate stood at 18 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 1925; however, the rate stood at 1.7 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 1997. With all of the new safety features with cars, public education and enforcement of safety laws, “motor-vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of injury-related deaths in the United States.” Over 23.9 million vehicle crashes were reported in 1997; estimated costs were around $200 billion.
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The first accident occurred on a 61-year old woman who was at a follow-up appointment after a breast tumor was removed. She felt a burning sensation and told the operator “you burned me”. She developed swelling and reddening, but the AECL declared this a normal treatment reaction and not a machine malfunction. Her condition wor...
...ons of vehicles this year. The company’s decision to reject safer switch was motivated by the cost (www.nbcnews.com, 2014).
The current patient may be experiencing a range of traumatic injuries after his accident, the injuries that the paramedic will focus on are those that are most life threatening. These injuries include: a possible tension pneumothroax or a haemothorax, hypovolemic shock, a mild or stable pelvic fracture and tibia fibula fracture.
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Richard Petty once said “You’ll got home safe, so drive safe, and stay safe.” Being a racing legend, he is an advocate for safe driving to minimise the cases of road crushes that have been on the rise. He double up as the chairman of the Veterans’ Safe Driving Initiative, the initiative is aimed at guiding the veterans returning from deployment on safe driving tips. It is necessarily important since the infrastructure has changed over time. Another initiative is being run in Minnesota where the teens are guided on the important safe driving tips. Study shows that more crushes are likely to occur in teen driving than veteran driving. It is also evident that young drivers are more likely to cause a crush within six months of passing the driving test and young male are worse than the females in the field.
Schmidt, M. S. (2014, January 19). Reviving a Life Saver, the Tourniquet. The New York Times [New York], p. D3.
This report is based upon extensive library and internet research as well as an interview with Zaman Qamar, performance engineer at General Motors. He is one of the team members for crash and safety department which deals with accidental issues during severe crash.