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November 14, 2006

States find cable barriers make roads safer

  • At about $44,000 a mile to install, cable barriers are nearly 40 percent cheaper than guardrails and nearly 10 times cheaper than concrete barriers.
    • By JAMES HANNAH
    Associated Press Writer

    DAYTON, Ohio — A hornet sting made Idaho trucker Christopher Adams lose control of his semitrailer at 70 mph. Three cables may have saved his life.

    A steel-cable barrier that Missouri had installed a few weeks earlier snagged his truck in the median of Interstate 44, keeping it from barreling into oncoming vehicles or from ricocheting back into traffic.


     
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