{"id":6731,"date":"2018-02-14T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2018-02-12T16:56:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:56:04","slug":"lawsuits-continue-filed-catastrophic-injuries-death-caused-x-lite-guardrails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/lawsuits-continue-filed-catastrophic-injuries-death-caused-x-lite-guardrails\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits Continue to be Filed for Catastrophic Injuries or Death Caused by X-LITE Guardrails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been multiple reports of deaths and\/or agonizing, horrible injuries caused when motorists strike highway or road guardrails designed and manufactured by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindsay.com\">Lindsay Corp.<\/a>, the maker and designer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barriersystemsinc.com\/xlite-end-terminal\">X-LITE guardrails<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The recent lawsuits filed in South Carolina and Tennessee allege that Lindsay Corp. was negligent in design of the X-LITE guardrails, which are supposed to absorb impact when vehicles hit them. Instead, the guardrails have been known to pierce through motor vehicles either killing drivers and passengers or severely injuring those in such vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2017, a woman died in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spartanburgcounty.org\">Spartanburg County<\/a>, SC, when the SUV that her husband was driving went off the road running into the guardrail. On impact, the beams from the guardrail pierced through the vehicle\u2019s exterior and frame puncturing all the way through to the backseat on the passenger side.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/lawsuits-continue-filed-catastrophic-injuries-death-caused-x-lite-guardrails\/#more-6731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been multiple reports of deaths and\/or agonizing, horrible injuries caused when motorists strike highway or road guardrails designed and manufactured by Lindsay Corp., the maker and designer of X-LITE guardrails. The recent lawsuits filed in South Carolina and Tennessee allege that Lindsay Corp. was negligent in design of the X-LITE guardrails, which are [&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":[5,172,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","category-guardrail-defect-lawsuits","category-product-defect-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lawsuits Continue to be Filed for Catastrophic Injuries or Death Caused by X-LITE Guardrails &#8212; 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