U.S. highway guardrail systems made by Trinity Industries Inc. and Road Systems Inc. have “safety performance issues” in some real-world crash scenarios, the Federal Highway Administration said as it urged a national overhaul of standards to better protect American drivers. …
Trinity Industries Inc.’s guardrail system will undergo additional crash testing by Virginia, raising new questions about a device on roadways across the country. Some of Virginia’s six proposed tests on the ET-Plus, scheduled to begin in mid-September, will be different …
Trinity Industries Inc., maker of a highway guardrail safety system tied to at least nine deaths, was told by a judge to pay $663 million for defrauding the U.S. government. The decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap in …
Trinity Industries Inc. was sued by shareholders alleging the company failed to disclose it made changes to its guardrail safety system without government review. At least two lawsuits were filed in federal court in Dallas accusing the company of making …
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into the use of a highway guardrail system linked to at least eight deaths, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling a new wave of potential woes for manufacturer Trinity …
A Virginia guardrail company belonging to a man who won a whistleblower verdict against competitor Trinity Industries Inc. filed for bankruptcy. Spig Industry LLC of Bristol, Virginia, had no income in 2014, according to its bankruptcy filing. In October, a …
The Federal Highway Administration rejected assertions from two guardrail-industry professionals who said Trinity Industries Inc. tried to hide defects in its roadway safety system by secretly developing a version of the shock- absorbing device less prone to malfunctioning. The FHWA …
Trinity Industries Inc.’s guardrail system, which has come under scrutiny for locking when hit and piercing cars instead of helping them slow, passed the first four of eight government-mandated crash tests, a federal highway agency said. The Federal Highway Administration …
Virginia joined a whistle-blower lawsuit against Trinity Industries Inc. over an allegedly defective guardrail system, becoming the first state to say it will seek to claw back money spent on the company’s roadside safety hardware. Trinity sold the state thousands …
U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system’s crash-worthiness even as they worried whether its design had been altered in a potentially deadly way, according to internal e-mails. Starting in 2012, a Federal Highway Administration engineer fielded e-mails …
