Posted on 03/25/2017 9:59:36 AM PDT by Morgana
LOUDON COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A Loudon County father who lost his daughter in a car crash said she would be alive today if it wasn't for the guardrail she hit.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation acknowledged the guardrails are unsafe and has started to correct the problem.
Hannah Eimers was just 17 years old and had her whole life ahead of her.
"She was remarkable," her father Stephen said. "She graduated at the age of 15. She was self-taught German, Russian and American Sign Language."
Her life ended last November on Interstate 75 near Niota when her car left the roadway and hit a guardrail. Her dad said the yellow and black piece on the end of the guardrail isn't safe, and TDOT knows it.
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Tell me what is with America and bad roads? We have this problem in West Virginia thought it was just an isolated case can see clearly it's not. Why is it that America has roads that are worse than a Third World Country? This should not be.
Probably computer generated. Computers know no compassion and only follow the instructions and guidelines set up by code created by programmers. Now if it was a human that issued the bill, one would have to ask how they thought a dead person was going to pay the bill!!
"That was a mistake," said Nagi. "It never should have happened. We'll take measures to make sure that never happens again."
Why waste infrastructure money on infrastructure?
Always empty words.
You are more likely to be impailed on that guardrail than helping protect you in a crash.
Looked up a number of stories on the accident. None of the stories had any info on how/why the driver came to leave the roadway.
Guess maybe someone there found out that the dad was going to deliver the $3,000 a one dollar bill at a time to where the sun, you know .....
The guardrail didn’t cause the accident.
Guess Obama’s stimulus money went elsewhere.
Like the bocce ball park in Palm Springs that no one wanted, no one uses and has no parking.
Incredibly, it was built with stimulus money earmarked for transportation.
True story.
She wrecked it. She should pay for it.
I don’t know the details of this crash, but I am in insurance claims & pay for guard rails in fatality accidents all the time.
You must have never traveled to a third world country ...
There has been a know defect with these guardrail ends since prior to 2005. The manufacturer has made changes in secret because they know they have an issue. That was discovered by a different manufacturer. All states DOT know of this defect. The manufacturer has settled out of court numerous times.
So while technically correct, the state shares some of the blame.
“Why is it that America has roads that are worse than a Third World Country? This should not be. “
Because we have to pay practically every foreign country on earth welfare including everyone here who has managed to fall across the border and also multi-generational under achievers who drop a baby every nine months. Oh, don’t forget the Mohair subsidies either.
For the same reason that people elected to the legislatures, State and Federal, suddenly become millionaires.
As the Corb Lund song, "Trouble In The Country", says
"When the money gets big,
People get hurt".
It failed. No payment for defective designs.
Somebody please help me here. What is it about the stripes on the guardrail that have to be removed? I don’t get it.....thanks
Know design defect since 2005.
I looked up X-LITE end terminal unsafe and this type of picture came up a lot:
So rather than a crushable barrier that slows you down or a rail that starts many feet from the road and gradually bends into the straight section, this just impales your car if you hit it.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the clarification......:)
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