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Highway official stood by guardrail system as doubt mounted

2014-11-03 22:15:17| Automakers - Topix.net

U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system's crashworthiness even as they worried whether its design had been altered in a potentially deadly way, according to internal emails. Starting in 2012, a Federal Highway Administration engineer fielded emails from state officials, plaintiffs' lawyers and others asking about a change that Trinity Industries Inc. had made to its guardrail system years earlier.

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