And look, the barrier still works as advertised even after the impact!
Wow, I had no idea that these water-filled barriers also had steel cables and reinforced steel attachments. They can stop a car?!?
I just learned that those concrete barriers along highways and freeways are called Jersey Barriers.
Wow wow wow. DVICE posted this demo video of some of the highly effective road blocks and barriers made by Barrier1 Systems, Inc.. I’ve known about the effectiveness of bollards from other demo videos but I have never seen nets like the ones in the video above that are flexible yet strong enough to stop [...]
In Addison, Texas, a car driving next to a semi loses control and causes the big rig to flip over the center median and into the path of oncoming traffic. Amazingly, it doesn’t look like there were any direct head-on collisions. [via]
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