{"id":4953,"date":"2015-04-15T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2016-08-31T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:48:44","slug":"us-federal-highway-administration-asked-investigate-defective-guardrail-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/us-federal-highway-administration-asked-investigate-defective-guardrail-system\/","title":{"rendered":"US Federal Highway Administration Asked to Investigate Defective Guardrail System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six United States senators have asked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/\">Federal Highway Administration<\/a> to investigate the safety of roadside guardrails. This request was made on March 4, 2015, and it is the latest of a series of inquiries made regarding the guardrails manufactured by <a href=\"http:\/\/trinityindustries.com\/\">Trinity Industries Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The questions about the guardrail system manufactured by Trinity began in October 2014 after a jury found that Trinity had defrauded the United States government by choosing not to report changes to the guardrail system. This act of failing to report changes to the guardrail system was over a period of seven years.<\/p>\n<p>There have been as many as eight deaths reported to be linked to the defective guardrail system. No spokesperson for Trinity would comment on any specific lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/us-federal-highway-administration-asked-investigate-defective-guardrail-system\/#more-4953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six United States senators have asked the Federal Highway Administration to investigate the safety of roadside guardrails. This request was made on March 4, 2015, and it is the latest of a series of inquiries made regarding the guardrails manufactured by Trinity Industries Inc. The questions about the guardrail system manufactured by Trinity began in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,74,125,75,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-auto-defect-litigation","category-consumer-law","category-product-defect-litigation","category-product-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US Federal Highway Administration Asked to Investigate Defective Guardrail System &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Six United States senators have asked the Federal Highway Administration to investigate the safety of roadside guardrails. 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