Alaska’s News Source has been looking into this for the past five months and found there could be nearly 300 of these guardrails on Alaska’s roadways right now.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - For nearly six years, a Tennessee father has been on a mission to warn states and drivers about what he calls “potentially deadly dangers” on our nation’s roadways.
“There was another one in Tennessee and then North Carolina and South Carolina and all across the United States,” Eimers said. So Eimers wanted to know why. He says he drove thousands of miles examining X-Lites. While using a pair of calipers, he measured bolts and other key parts and, according to his lawsuit, measurements often differed from the manufacturer’s original design.
Alaska’s News Source obtained hundreds of Lindsay’s internal emails and memos. In one email from January 2014, Lindsay officials discuss photos of real-world crash scenes. Lindsay’s product specialist tells the company’s president, “in this photo the rail buckled and is not a clean hit. ... If you have to leave the DOT photos, I would not leave this one.”
However, Lindsay still maintains its product is safe. Their expert stated in Hannah’s crash the X-Lite functioned properly, and because her car hit the guardrail sideways, it penetrated the door, which is the vehicle’s weak point. In 2017 the FHWA was conducting an in-service pilot program to evaluate the performance of several guardrails including the X-Lite.
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