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Roadside hardware crash tests: are used to ensure crash barriers and crash cushions will protect vehicle occupants from roadside hazards, and also to ensure that guard rails, sign posts, light poles and similar appurtenances do not pose an undue hazard to vehicle occupants.
Staircase railings in the Degré du roi, part of the Petit appartement du roi, in the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France. Guard rails, guardrails, railings or protective guarding, [1] in general, are a boundary feature and may be a means to prevent or deter access to dangerous or off-limits areas while allowing light and visibility in a greater way than a fence.
Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...
A crash cushion installed on a motorway exit in Italy. An impact attenuator, also known as a crash cushion, crash attenuator, or cowboy cushion, is a device intended to reduce the damage to structures, vehicles, and motorists resulting from a motor vehicle collision. Impact attenuators are designed to absorb the colliding vehicle's kinetic energy.
Accident data recorder UDS 2165 (VDO Kienzle rel. 1.3) - Installation during crash test Example of a data curve of a crash recorder that is recorded in a traffic accident. The accident data recorder ( ADR , German commonly abbr.: UDS , also accident (data) writer) [ 1 ] is an independent electronic device that records before, during, and after ...
Regarding forgiving road infrastructure: standards exist in different countries to crash test road infrastructure and to qualify them as being passive safe or forgiving. In the US there is MASH (the Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware) and in Europe, there is EN12767. Removing obstacles should be the first choice.
The Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (commonly referred to as Midwest and abbreviated as MwRSF) is a research organization in Lincoln, Nebraska that conducts automotive crash testing. MwRSF is operated by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (NU) and researches highway design and safety with a particular emphasis on safety performance ...
This program oversees carriers' safety performance through roadside inspections and crash investigations, issuing violations when instances of noncompliance with safety regulations are uncovered. The Agency's safety investigation team and state law enforcement partners are small compared to the millions of CMV companies and commercial driver ...