Testing of Trinity’s controversial guardrail system, known as the ET-Plus, continued last week. Despite the fact that the Federal Highway Administration is overseeing the tests, some, including two United States senators, feel that they should be more rigorous. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y. and Richard...

Testing of the controversial Trinity guardrail system continues in San Antonio, Texas. On Thursday, January 15, 2015, the fifth of eight scheduled crash tests was completed. The Federal Highway Administration requested the series of tests after reports that the ET-Plus guardrail system was faulty, t...

An independent review of the Trinity Guardrail safety study has found flaws in the methodology of the research and in the conclusions drawn by the study. The review, commissioned by the Federal Highway Administration, questioned the methods of the study, since it excludes minor crashes and looks sol...

Federally mandated crash tests of a controversial highway safety device are underway in San Antonio, Texas. The company who manufactures the ET-Plus guardrail end terminal, Trinity Industries, has been under much scrutiny this year. A Texas judge found that the company had defrauded the government b...

Texas has become the latest state to suspend the installation of a controversial highway safety mechanism, the ET-Plus guardrail end terminal. The ET-Plus, manufactured by Trinity Industries, has now been banned by 40 states throughout the country and in some Canadian provinces as well. The guardrai...