Collision tests on motorway hazard signal posts fitted with breakaway joints.

Author(s)
Walker, A.E.
Year
Abstract

Breakaway joints fitted in tubular steel lighting columns have been shown to reduce the severity of accidents in which vehicles collide with lighting columns. The use of breakaway joints in the posts supporting the hazard signals currently being erected on the central reserves of motorways has been considered. This report deals with collision tests made on posts incorporating a breakaway joint similar to that used in the lighting column tests.

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Library number
A 5310 [electronic version only] IRRD 50534
Source

Crowthorne, Road Research Laboratory RRL, 1970, 28 p., ref., tab.; RRL Report 312.

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