>> Investigate but the I team. Make Jacksonville a better place to live.
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>> 4 months after the news 4 Jax I teams started asking questions about a controversial
guardrail that some families
blamed for the deaths of their
loved ones.
The Florida Department of
Transportation says it is
removing all X like our Wales
throughout the states.
>> The I team start miners,
joining us with his
investigation highway hazard.
Well the ex right,
the X like guardrail is
designed to collapse in absorb
the energy of an oncoming car
but one father says these
guardrails can.
>> Pierce vehicles in crashes
which is what he says killed
his daughter. The manufacturer
the Lindsay corporation insists
that
the guardrail it’s all federal
safety guidelines and performs
as designed
in 2017 the federal Highway
Administration said there
wasn’t enough evidence to prove
the guardrail isn’t state
is unsafe. Still the grieving
father we spoke with what’s
them removed.
>> Going into the
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>> courage is.
The real
or syringes or instantly just 4
months after Steve I’m or 17
year-old daughter Hannah was
killed in a car crash where the
end of the next like guardrail
impaled her vehicle.
>> Killing
her instantly Tennessee’s
Department of Transportation
said his dead daughter this
nearly $3,000 bill for the cost
of labor and materials to
replace the guardrail that
killed her I immerse refused to
pay it and after doing his own
research he says the accident
shouldn’t have resulted in
Hannah’s death.
>> People understand this was a
very survivable accident.
It was it was a girl sitting
beside her.
>> They’re walking
away from barely a scratch or
beat us. She did it or that
>> A spokesperson for the
Tennessee Department of
Transportation state of the X
like guardrail perform the way
it was supposed to
and that the appeal that of
heinous car was due to the
angle of the crash
saying the rail impact of the
driver’s side door in spite of
the Tennessee Department of
Transportation’s findings.
I immerse isn’t the only one
blaming the X like guardrail
Ford’s loved one’s death.
So is the family of this
Detroit school teacher
in this dash cam footage, 69
year old William Byrd is behind
the wheel as his vehicle veers
off the road in Chattanooga
Tennessee. Watch as the guard
rail Spears his car the metal
scene coming straight out the
back of his vehicle for its
family filed a lawsuit against
the Lindsay corporation along
with 2 other families at least
7 people have been killed in
accidents involving acts like
guardrails according to crash
records.
>> Iris as the guardrail is
inherently defective and claims
the manufacturer cut corners
and
its tested.
>> He shared some of his
concerns in one letter to
Florida governor Ron desantis
back in
I was also points to a US
government accountability
office report they looked at
all
guardrail manufacturers citing
potential conflicts of interest
between guardrail manufacturers
in crash tests last
the G a o found that 6 of the 9
accredited us crash test
laboratories evaluate products
that were developed by
employees of the
parent organization, the G a o
recommended a 3rd party process
for verifying crash results.
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The news
for jax’s I team started asking
questions about it’s like our
real statewide in our area
last June today there are 146
active X like guardrails in our
state in 4 of those are in
Duvall County near San Jose
blvd old Saint Augustine road
near the I 95 to
95 interchange 4 months after
we first inquired Florida’s D o
T has told us that it will be
phasing out the acts like
guardrail altogether
after the manufacturer failed
to fully address the state’s
questions about the product’s
safety.
>> We wrote a letter to them
expressing some concerns,
I’m asking them to answer some
questions the FDA to had
regarding the acts like
guardrails Troy Roberts of the
FT OT says the manufacturer of
the acts like guardrail the
Lindsay corporation responded
to the letter.
>> But did not adequately
answer the questions and
concerns from the state.
Florida D o T announced the
state’s plans to phase out all
acts like guardrails by the end
of the year.
>> This grieving father says
that’s not
soon enough.
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>> You have to get this out and
say it is inherently to that.
>> Now we did reach out to the
ex lights manufacturer, the
Lindsay transportation
solutions for comment and we
get received this statement.
Florida has confirmed that they
have had no negative
experiences with the ex light
further the federal Highway
Administration has examined and
reexamined the ex light and
it’s in service performance.
It has gathered input from
state departments of
transportation across the
country in F H W A’s to buy you
a shuns the ex late has
performed consistently with
other in terminals on us roads
and highways.
The Florida Department of
Transportation tells the I team
it is not have any of those
negative experiences, but
as an abundance of caution they
are committed to removing all
146 X like our girls across the
state by the end of the
calendar year and Tom and Mary
the replacement of all these
guardrails by the end of this
year and is estimated to cost
about $730,000 of taxpayers
money from the point of view of
the grieving father that seems
like not a lot of money at all
does the top in the bucket and