Terrorism' alert on the motorway 1388

Cynic

That's not what he stated, he posted the following:

"Its the crash barrier that runs up the middle of the carriageway on a motorway, and occasionally between the hard shoulder and whatever is beyond it. If you plug the word into a "Google Images" search, you'll see plenty of it"

Have you ever looked a motorway? The grbutt verge can extend to a considerable distance above the carriageway. There's a definite "up" as in "higher than the carriageway".

Oh FFS turn your brain on.

Untrue, it happens day after after day. I can usually expect to see the Incident Support Unit being caled out to repair the Armco from three to seven times a day. An Armco barrier cannot retain an HGV.

No, it's finite and

In multiple pileups, the vehicles tend to be on the same carriageway. It is a rare event for a vehicle to pbutt through the central reservation and when it hapens it is usually a single vehicle. In a multiple pile up the problem is vehicles impacting stationery traffic from behind, not vehicles penetrating the crash barriers.

In a multiple pileup events happens so quickly that drivers rarely have chance to leave their own vehicle hence tend not to be standing behind crash barriers. Those that do try to leave their vehicles are usualy the first ones to die because they are struck by following vehicles as they leave their own or are traped between their vehicle and the door or are thrown through the windscreen as soon as they release their seat belt.

None of which is relevant, I suggest that you read the material you are replying to, to avoid your mildly amusing fauxs pas. Armco as both I and "bigbrian" have explained can be found on both sides of the carriageway, the verge is the part of the carriageway adjacent to the hard shoulder and vehicle strikes on the hardshoulder and vehicles leaving the motorway via the Armco by the hardshoulder are every day incidents.