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Feds defend giving guardrail passing grades
2015-03-14 08:05:17| Railroads - Topix.net
A potentially dangerous guardrail cleared a crucial hurdle Friday when federal officials released their analysis of four crash tests and gave the product passing grades, even for the final test, in which the driver's door was severely damaged. But the findings by the Federal Highway Administration seemed only to intensify the debate over the guardrail, which is called the ET-Plus and made by Dallas-based Trinity Industries, as critics on Capitol Hill denounced the conclusion as the result of a flawed process.
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