A Tennessee father is furious after his deceased 17-year-old daughter was sent a bill to replace the very guardrail that killed her in November 2016.
Hannah Elmers was a “remarkable” teenager, according to her father. She graduated high school at just 15 years old and taught herself three languages.
But her life would come to a tragic end during an early morning drive on November 1, according to the Tennessean.
Hannah was driving her father's Volvo on Interstate 75 North when something would go terribly wrong.
The Tennessean reported that something caused her car to drift too close to the center median, and soon her vehicle slammed into a guardrail — taking out “approximately 15 to 20 feet” of the barrier.
According to the Daily Mail, the “Lindsay X-LITE” guardrail was supposed to “collapse like a telescope” when struck by a vehicle — but that's not what happened.
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I'd be upset, too, but realize that notices from the state don't often have any sort of personal touch or human filter, most of them being generated by computers and printing and mailing machines - human hands never touch them.
ReplyDeleteAs for the failure of the guard rail to guard anything but the dirt behind it, sue the state and definitely sue the manufacturer if the product was installed to spec in a properly rated application.
I don't mean to sound cold but if you keep your car in the road you don't hit guardrails. I would check the phone for texts etc.
ReplyDeleteOnly in America!
ReplyDeleteyea because losing control over a blown tires isnt possible. lets just blame the victim.
ReplyDeleteTo bad you failed at not sounding cold. Maybe in the future just keep your mouth shut.
If it wasn't her, it would have been somebody else.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like the highway department bought an admittedly inadequate piece of road safety equipment, either because they were hoodwinked by a salesman or because of SHA engineering or inspection incompetence. Of course there's always that low bid thing that turns so many public projects into public liabilities.
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ReplyDeleteyea because losing control over a blown tires isnt possible. lets just blame the victim.
To bad you failed at not sounding cold. Maybe in the future just keep your mouth shut.
March 28, 2017 at 10:37 AM
ditto