Trinity guardrails testing News

Trinity Says Virginia Orders More Tests for Highway Guardrails

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 …

U.S. Safety Agency Says Trinity Did Not Hide Guardrail Defects

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 Guardrails Pass First of 8 Mandated Crash Tests

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 …