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The local roading authorities can gradually replace them with safer designs, however, in the natural course of maintaining the roads. They'll certainly need to repair the armco where Kubica crashed, for example, and so why not have one with tapered ends or something? Perhaps rallying can be a force for good in leading the fight for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Not a short-term solution but maybe the most realistic one.
Hi frist time post on here, wish robert a speed recovery.
I was wondering if they have these on guard rail in europe to so them entering cars?
http://www.turnerfence.com/guardrails.jpg
can't work out how to edit post but that should say first and stop instead of so
I just realized that Kubica drove car number 4... Number four... :s hock:
well it certainly ended far better than the bettega and toivonens cars...
In the UK there has been a recent surge of these being installed, or ones similar. I think the idea is that the end piece moves along and the first part of the barrier is easily collaspable. However on a small road like the one that Kubica was on it is unlikely that the money would have been spent to change them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dug83
Some news from Italy...
Robert feels better today. He talks to the friends and family members that visit him and jokes. He can move the fingers of the broken hand. He still doesn't remember the accident. The doctors say that he may return to normal life within a few weeks, but return to the sport will take much, much longer.
Robert awaits three more operations.
Yeah it moves down the barrier when you crash into it and bends the barrier back on itself stopping it entering the car.
Statistically rallying is up there with cliff skydiving as one of the absolutely most dangerous sports in the world. And I hate to point out this to you, Rallyper, the sport already affords a number of fatalities each year. I tried to keep a record a couple of years ago, 2008 or 2009 I think it was, with something like 13 fatalities recorded through the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
A great number of drivers/codrivers survives each year purely because of luck. Robert Kubica was one of them this year...