LINDSAY X LITE MANUAL

At the time of our first X-Lite Guardrails investigation last year, KDOT had 27 X-Lites on Kansas Highways. The Kansas Department of Transportation stopped allowing the state to use X-Lite Guardrails on new projects in March of 2017. have effectively been required to transition away from the prior generation of guardrail end terminals in favor of offerings from Lindsay and other manufacturers meeting the new ‘MASH’ standard…” It said, “…this means that states across the U.S. In its statement to KSN, Lindsay Transportation Solutions acknowledged the new testing standards.

LINDSAY X LITE MANUAL

States are moving to devices that are compliant with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH). Numerous states have confirmed that they’ve had no negative experiences with the X-LITE.”ĭegges said there are new standards now. roads and highways and did not lead to any conclusion that the X-Lite was unsafe.

In FHWA’s evaluations, the X-LITE performed consistently with other end terminals on U.S. In a statement to KSN, Lindsay Corporation said, “The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) examined and re-examined the X-LITE and its in-service performance and gathered input from state departments of transportation across the United States.

Through state records in Nebraska and California, KSN found out the former principal address listed for Lindsay is the same address listed for Safe Technologies, the company that conducted the crash tests. The Missouri lawsuit also accused the company of fraud, saying, “crash testing was conducted, at least in part, by Safe Technologies, which at all relevant times was a fully owned subsidiary of Lindsay Corp.” The state of Missouri is suing the company, going as far as calling the guardrails “defective and ineffective at preventing spearing, vaulting, rollovers, and other unintended redirections of an impacting vehicle.” Multiple states have removed X-Lites from their roads.

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