Deadly Guardrails
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012If you hit the guard rails fitted at the sides of our roads the result can be deadly.
These rails are intended to keep vehicle from running off the road or across into the other carriageway and are only tested for car and commercial vehicle impacts, motorcycle impacts are not considered.
A motorcycle impact with the standard issue is frequently fatal due to the rider impacting the support beams which can lead to dismemberment and/or decapitation.
FEMA, the Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations, has has been campaigning for a new standard which takes crash tests with motorcycles into account and have issued a Special Edition newsletter about this.
The newsletter can be viewed on line at http://www.fema-online.eu/ by clicking on this link.