If the driver’s attention is distracted while driving and turns toward concrete barriers, the driver and passengers are at risk of serious injuries due to the danger of these barriers in some places on the sides of the road. Metal road barriers at road intersections or tunnel entries and exits may pose a danger to drivers and passengers if a collision occurs, which is why Shawahid has designed crash cushion systems.
Crash cushion systems play an important role in traffic safety because of their characteristics, which we will learn about in this article.
Features of Crash Cushion Systems
The importance of crash cushion is due to the variety of features that make them an important element of road safety.
Internal Cushions
If we want to know the main reason for the shock absorption in the crash cushion system, we find that the internal cushions are the main factor in absorbing the collision energy. They are cylindrical cushions with a weak spot in the center that prevents them from breaking when the car collides with the crash cushion, as the cushions compress upon impact without breaking, gradually stopping the car.
Beams with spacers
After mentioning the internal cushions, these cushions are inside the body of the Crash Cushion, which consists of beams on both sides that contain sliding spacers, these sliding spacers help the beams slide under each other while the cushions are compressed, until the car completely stops, in the case of a frontal collision.
If the vehicle collides with the side of the Crash Cushion, the beams redirect the vehicle back onto the road.
Reflective films
The front face of the Crash Cushion is covered with sheets of reflective films, these reflective films enhance the visibility of the system at night to minimize the chances of a collision and ensure better road safety.
Crash Cushion Installation Places
After knowing what features the Crash Cushion system has as one of the traffic safety systems, it is necessary to know where to install it. If each traffic safety system isn’t installed in the right place, it won’t fulfill its role in achieving traffic safety, and therefore those features aren’t important. As for the Crash Cushion, it is installed in:
- In front of concrete barriers, whether at the intersection or on both sides of the road.
- In front of metal barriers at road intersections and tunnel entries.
Shawahid’s Crash Cushion Shapes
Shawahid designs two shapes of the System, the normal and the double, both of which are highly efficient and we will explain the simple difference between them:
Normal shape
The normal shape consists of only one row of cushions.
Double shape
The double shape is larger in external dimensions because it has two rows of shock-absorbing cushions, so the system’s body is wider than normal.
Shawahid’s Crash Cushion is guaranteed road safety
Why choose Crash Cushion from Shawahid Industrial Roads Company?
Shawahid Co. didn’t reach its position as a pioneer in traffic safety around Saudi Arabia easily, as the company worked hard to manufacture its traffic safety systems with the highest quality and ensure their efficiency by passing crash tests in which they proved their global efficiency, and the same is the case with the Crash Cushion system.
So you can order the Crash Cushion from our company without worry and we will guarantee what you want to achieve.
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