When a car hits a steel guardrail, it sucks the car into it and usually makes the situation worse. Concrete walls, like the ones at Lapeer, tend to just deflect the car away .
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When a car hits a steel guardrail, it sucks the car into it and usually makes the situation worse. Concrete walls, like the ones at Lapeer, tend to just deflect the car away .
Concrete walls retain the car. Steel guardrails almost always make a crash worse by launching the car in the air and barrel rolling, or flipping end over end.
Oops. Bad466, I didnt see your post until I commented. Sorry to repeat what you basically said.
Budget... Cool to see any improvements!
Mid michigan is removing the guard rails currently.....don't know if they are closed for season now