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re: Has anybody ever hit the cable things on the interstate?
Posted on 5/30/18 at 10:19 pm to BRgetthenet
Posted on 5/30/18 at 10:19 pm to BRgetthenet
BRGETTHENET,
Pull your license out of your pants (if you can find them) and sign your organ donor card.
Someone will thank me for this, probably not you.
Pull your license out of your pants (if you can find them) and sign your organ donor card.
Someone will thank me for this, probably not you.
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Posted on 5/31/18 at 5:33 am to Miketheseventh
I’m surprise the state does not charge people‘s insurance for the repairs. I know the causeway does that if you get in a wreck and mess up the pipe barrier on top of the walls on the southbound bridge.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:01 am to TigerNlc
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Statistics show they have significantly reduced fatal head on collisions.
I'm sure that's a real big problem on rural interstates.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:05 am to MobileJosh
I have a buddy that has a daughter who hit one around Jackson MS several years back. He said it kept her car from crossing over into the opposite lanes and kept a pretty bad wreck from becoming fatal.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:06 am to LongueCarabine
I had a car coming straight at me and my family that was stopped by the cables. We were belted up and in an f-250 but it would not have been pretty without the cables.
Big fan.
Big fan.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:09 am to LongueCarabine
At least we confirmed LC is in fact an old dumbass
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:41 am to LongueCarabine
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I'm sure that's a real big problem on rural interstates.
It IS a real big problem on rural interstates.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:49 am to LongueCarabine
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Statistics show they have significantly reduced fatal head on collisions.
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I'm sure that's a real big problem on rural interstates.
I can actually see it being a big problem on rural interstates.
When driving through the south, even the rural interstates tend to have a nice size load of traffic on both sides. Combine that with people driving 80-90 mph, then yes, I can see the barriers saving lives.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:55 am to MobileJosh
At $100,000 a mile I hope they work
Wish my uncle would have won that contract
Wish my uncle would have won that contract
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:57 am to MobileJosh
I just like that cops can't u-turn through the grass and catch me when I'm doing 95 in a 70.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 6:57 am to UpToPar
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They’re not for the dumbass that ran off the road, they’re for the oncoming traffic on the other side.........and they are a constant reminder if Darwin’s theory to motorcyclist
I used to joke about those things, but they fricking work as designed. Saved me and my family from being wiped out by a Dodge pickup that had lost control westbound on I10 between US 61 and La. 641 (Grammercy) a few years back.
Saw the guy start to lose it, he fishtailed and went into the median bee-lining straight at us. Hit the cables and it IMMEDIATELY turned him and shredded his driver's side (especially, front quarterpanel/wheel well).
Became a big believer in them after that.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 7:05 am to The Torch
It really costs around $100 k a mile to install those cables? I'm a big fan of them and think they are necessary regardless but I had no idea they cost that much.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 7:29 am to Slim Chance
You are right. They help save speeding tickets.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 7:36 am to MobileJosh
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So why are they there?
To avoid having more groups of crosses representing whole families killed by some idiot losing control and crossing the median. Like we have along I-10 between Highland and 73.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 7:43 am to East Coast Band
Damn I remember seeing this in upstate NY and thinking to myself how flimsy they look.
Great video
Great video
Posted on 5/31/18 at 8:21 am to MobileJosh
Last June I was in my buddies truck pulling hid boat on I-10 at 5:30 in the morning. Rolling in the middle lane, and a jackass in a BMW hauling arse rear ends us sending the boat flying over the truck, and us into the median. We hit the cables, and went about 20 feet before we stopped. if the cables were not there we would have been heading into oncoming traffic. If you can't see their purpose you are a quite a mental midget.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 8:34 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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Thx bud, I found my right leg. There’s a lot of dirt in my intestines. I think that’s bad. I think I can hang on for like 5-10 mor
Yeah, I can't possibly do anything for you for at least a half hour and that's iffy.
Maybe some positive thinking would help?
Posted on 5/31/18 at 8:44 am to Walt OReilly
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I have a buddy that gets drunk and goes around using some tool and cuts them.
Why is he still your buddy?
Posted on 5/31/18 at 9:44 am to commode
I see their purpose. Was mainly wanting feedback from people who had actually hit them. Which I got from several people, and I thank them for their reponses. I was unaware that asking questions makes one a mental midget. My bad
Posted on 5/31/18 at 10:01 am to MobileJosh
In 2005, I was sent through a windshield when an teenage diabetic passed out and crossed over to opposing traffic. I would have enjoyed some cables to prevent that.
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