The Indiana highway agency is reviewing its guardrails around the state as one supplier faces criticism over the safety of a design change. Department of Transportation spokesman Will Wingfield says the agency estimates about 4,000 of the ET-Plus guardrails built …
State officials are planning an evaluation of potentially faulty guardrail heads on Kentucky roads and highways. Transportation Secretary Mike Hancock told lawmakers during a committee meeting last week that he believes hundreds of ET-Plus guardrail component are in use, but …
A federal judge has ordered mediation between a Texas company and a whistleblower who won a $175 million verdict over a design change in the company’s highway guardrails. Critics say the change made it more likely that cars could be …
State transportation officials are investigating where faulty guardrails have been installed along Mississippi roadways. Trinity Industries Inc. stopped shipments of its ET-Plus guardrails after a Texas jury ordered it to pay at least $175 million for misleading regulators. A whistleblower …
The U.S. said Trinity Industries Inc. must provide a crash-test plan by Oct. 31 following a verdict yesterday that the guardrail system maker duped the government by hiding changes to its product. A Texas jury found yesterday that Trinity had …