Ohh them about four or $500.
Anesthesia almost $600.00
Taylor Brock's medical Bills,
9639 are piling up.
The oxygen company has now sent
it to collections. How much
is it all cost altogether?
Ohh, well over 300,000.
That's not the only price he has to pay.
In my left foot I have two screws.
My right foot, I have 15 or 16 screws,
and I have two metal bars.
They're holding my leg where it should
be. I'm missing a chunk of bone.
This is all the result of a
car crash. What do you remember
from that day? Ohh all of it.
I was barely doing 20. Barely
20 mph. How could his injuries be this bad?
The guardrail came into the vehicle
and it hit my seat and it pushed
my seat to the back of my car.
The back seat. And then I was
sitting on top of the guardrail.
Brock Hydroplaned on Bethany Rd.
In Milton, straight into a guardrail
which pierced through his car.
If I was going any faster it
would have went through me.
You can hear the shock of first responders
on the scene in this body Cam video we
obtained through an open records request.
It's fully broken, just on my skin.
One person who isn't shocked
he's as low as 30 miles an hour.
You can get serious about the
speed limit on Bethany Rd. Is 40.
Dean Sicking is professor emeritus
at the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, an expert on guardrails.
He explains the type of guardrail
Brock hit is called a blunt end.
In 1994, the Federal Highway Administration
said every state should replace
these guardrails because they were
Spearing cars in crashes and known as
extremely hazardous roadside objects.
Should blunt end guardrails
still be on roads today?
No, they shouldn't.
So why was this one on the road?
This federal memo only applies
to highways and state roads,
not county or municipal roads.
However,
seeking says most states have laws
saying what's done on highways should
apply to all roads in the state.
Georgia doesn't have that law.
It's up to each individual city or county.
The problem with that?
Is there anybody
in the city of Milton who
is a guardrail expert?
That is not us item that we
have specific knowledge of.
Sarah leaders is the public works
director for the city of Milton. Were you
ever aware that these blunt end
guardrails were no longer allowed
on state highways and state road
no longer deemed safe? I was not.
The Georgia Department of Transportation
is aware these rails are not safe.
Why does that matter?
Because G dot actually inspected the
very rail Brock hit every two years.
We have records of it going back to 2006.
Leaders says Milton relies on G dot
to tell it if there are any issues.
G Dots reports rate the guardrail as zero,
meaning it is not up to safety standards
for highways, but because this.
Is not a highway.
It doesn't alley, the state agency says.
Quote, GT does not have the authority to
make requirements to locals on the design,
construction or maintenance on this facility.
This is the guardrail Taylor
Brock hit after the crash.
The city of Milton replaced it with this,
but our guardrail expert says this
is no different from the blunt end,
meaning if somebody hits this head on,
it could still spear their car.
That's awful. So with the
information we've given you
through our investigation,
does Milton now plan to replace all
those blunt end guardrails in his city?
Yes, we we do plan on that.
The change comes too late for
Taylor Brock. Do you know if you'll
ever be back to normal? No,
that's. I don't think it will. It will. But
he hopes his story serves as a warning
to cities everywhere in Georgia to find
these blunt ends and get rid of them,
even if the state doesn't require them to.
I would love for
this to, you know, guardrails
not to Pierce people's vehicles.