Collision tests with breakaway street lighting columns fitted with a suspension cable.

Author(s)
Hignett, H.J. & A.E. Walker
Year
Abstract

Low speed and high speed collision tests have been carried out to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of connecting the tops of breakaway columns by a steel suspension cable so that after a collision the shaft of the column involved is left suspended between the two adjacent columns, and does not fall onto the carriageway or footpath.

Publication

Library number
A 8077 [electronic version only] IRRD 59764
Source

Crowthorne, Road Research Laboratory RRL, 1971, 18 p., ref; RRL Report ; No. 387

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