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?
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.
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 ...
“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.
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
I had a d discussion with someone in a town government responsible for road repair.
I am always curious as to what percentage of funds allocated for actual cost of products to maintain something is, so I asked.
He said for money allocated to road repair, only about 40-50% is actually used for materials. So 50-60% goes to contractors to cover worker salaries, equipment and profits.
To compound the problem, in his case he covers 56 miles of town road. But with the budget he is given each year he can only repair 2-3 miles of road a year. I said so this means to deal with everything you’re talking 56 miles of pothole patches, and he said yeah, pretty much.
Also on TN-33 & US 441 intersection in Knox County has been under construction for about 5 years now and still no end in sight. I-75 from Jellico to Knoxville was done in less time once construction began. The Spur Interstate aka old I-75 between I-640 and I-40 is another design goof. Coster Shops which was a railroad maintenance yard still existed sorta when the new bridge was built. The bridge is OK but the six lane from the bridge to I-40 is pitched wrong at the Oldham/Woodland ave exit curve. That route serves four hospital routes ambulances take.
In Knox County West Raccoon Valley Road has a railroad bridge that is completely blind and one lane shared by east and west bound traffic and this is a state highway dump trucks and garbage trucks use to the tune of one truck per minute at least in the day time. Chapman Highway in Knoxville hasn't been upgraded thanks to the bicycle and joggers as well as environmentalist who are against another road into south Knoxville to ease traffic Congestion. Then the real good one Cumberland Ave in Knoxville or as it's called at UT The Strip. The city, state, and federal government, ceded one lane of it both ways to the university for it's environmental Green Nonsense. That road is a route to access two hospital in that area.
You can thank the collusion between unions and politicians for the state we are in.
Ends of guardrails are curved over and down into the ground here in NC, on multilane highways at least. On rural roads I’m sure there are still old style guardrails that could impale a car running head on into the end of it.
There are plenty of roads without guardrails. It’s up to the driver to drive according to the conditions.
When you damage government property in an accident you get billed for it. It’s unfortunate she died, but she still must have done something wrong to hit that gaurdrail, which he says is defective but probably isn’t.
It is a really stupid design, best to avoid hitting it. However, sometimes perfectly safe and competent drivers are caught up in stupid people’s accidents.