Re: Errent cars, fences, etc revisited

Posted by Hurst on October 28, 2006 at 14:34:37 from (66.129.5.5):

In Reply to: Errent cars, fences, etc revisited posted by NC Wayne on October 27, 2006 at 20:36:31:

I don't know if you have ever seen the road crews put in the guard rails on the interstate, but there is a lot of equipment involved in putting in a guard rail system and having it anchored properly. And the cable system is a VERY BAD way to stop a car. It used to be the main rail system on the national highways until the government started figuring out the cable would cut through the cars and if going fast enough, the people in the cars like a hot knife through butter. That is why you don't see many cable barriers up, esp on major highways. The only place I have seen them has been on mountain roads. I was the one who was talking about the rail road irons, and while I have never seen one hit yet (like I said they are there to stop people who miss the corner completely) I forgot to mention one set that we had also protected a house that was built on a corner. To be honest, I would rather have the person driving like an idiot get injured by the railroad iron than kill someone sleeping in a house at night. It may sound crude, but there is a lot higher risk of someone dying in that house than in the car that hits the rail road iron. Our of the other ones, two of them also prevent the car from going into a drainage system under a road which otherwise would be a good 3-4 foot drop off into hard dirt. Honestly, we cannot afford to put in a guard rail system. We have done a lot to keep our workers safe (as they have to cross the road by foot with horses many times a day to get from barn to barn) and the drivers. We have in the past few years posted 2 warning signs and had the city and county change the speed limit through one corner to a 25 mph from a 55 and had them come set up a speed trap to catch the idiots who fly through there. I am sure there is a way that they can sue us, but you know what, they can sue us just as easily if they get hurt from running their car into a telephone pole behind one of these rails, or into a drop off, or a 80 year old tree behind another set of those rails. Basically, if someone ever does sue, it will be the sorriest thing as those barriers were put there to protect them and our livestock. They are not giant spikes that will impale the car, they are just there to stop a car from running off the road really far. They are a good 3 ft from the edge of the road. If someone was going to sue us over those barriers, they would probably sue us over any barrier we put up. Its a risk that we have had to assume as the traffic picks up on the road. The good thing is that most of the people who run through the fence are all illegal immigrants, which greatly reduces the chances of being sued.

Hurst

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• Re: Errent cars, fences, etc revisited John S-B 15:16:23 10/28/06 (0)

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