Chief DelPrete states the truck was driving 90mph on a tight road. However, Glocester Police Chief Joseph DelPrete attributes the cause of the accident and its severity to excessive speed, as opposed to a faulty barrier. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the police report, a 29-year-old Massachusetts man driving a pickup truck struck a 10-foot section of the guardrail, rode over the top of the barrier into a utility pole and down an embankment into a tree. The auto accident fatality took place in Glocester, RI in May 2016. There is one known fatality in Rhode Island involving the X-LITE guardrail. Rhode Island Fatality Due to X-LITE Guardrail have involved this style of guardrail and the Rhode Island Department of Transportation plans to remove all of them “out of an abundance of caution”, per DOT spokesman Charles St. The X-LITE guardrails are believed by some to cause potential death or personal injury in car accidents by piercing, or impaling, the vehicles that come into contact with the barrier during a car crash.
Tens of thousands of X-Lites remain in use and they continue to kill the innocent.Rhode Island recently joined the ranks of six other states to ban a particular style of highway guardrail, the Lindsay X-LITE, due to concerns over the barriers crash safety. State after state has voiced concerns about X-Lite’s performance, constructability, undisclosed changes, quality, and Lindsay’s product support.Īt least 18 states have removed their X-Lites from the roadside but Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Texas, and others have not. The administration simply refuses to enforce its rules. This provides legitimacy that allows X-Lites to remain on our nation’s highways. Making matters worse, the Federal Highway Administration has not rescinded X-Lite’s eligibility letter. D-Connecticut, described the administration as “troubled” and stated: “Today’s report paints a picture of an agency adrift-failing to ensure these devices are enhancing safety, not undermining it.” Government Accountability Office (GAO) identified oversight deficiencies by the Federal Highway Administration involving crash testing labs. Some states have removed X-Lites, others have not Missouri reports “The Defendants misrepresented the results of the NCHRP 350 crash testing for the purpose of making prospective purchasers believe that the X-Lite System functioned safely and as designed." Missouri’s review led them to file a lawsuit against Lindsay alleging X-Lite is “defective” and that it’s “unreasonably dangerous." Missouri declared X-Lite a “public nuisance” and accused Lindsay of fraud. Hear more Tennessee Voices: Get the weekly opinion newsletter for insightful and thought provoking columns. I can’t tell you what’s in there, but Missouri reviewed these documents after another fatal X-Lite spearing. Over 200,000 pages of documents were produced by Lindsay in Hannah’s wrongful death case but every page was marked confidential. is hiding its fraud from state DOTs and allowing the X-Lite to continue killing. Lindsay knew these spearings were going to happen but still installed X-Lites across 29 states.īy sealing records, Lindsay Corp. They conducted more crash tests, which catastrophically failed and Lindsay concealed these results. Lindsay responded by making over 100 secret changes to X-Lite. Immediately state DOTs began to see X-Lite’s problems.
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