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While using a pair of calipers, he measured bolts and other key parts and, according to his lawsuit, measurements often differed from the manufacturer’s original design. He says he drove thousands of miles examining X-Lites. “There was another one in Tennessee and then North Carolina and South Carolina and all across the United States,” Eimers said. One video demonstrated how X-Lites were intended to absorb the impact of a head-on collision, with rails telescoping inwards, but Eimers says he began finding crashes where that didn’t happen. Sometimes killing or maiming passengers and drivers. “I’ve worked EMS, I’ve worked in the emergency room, I have seen horrific.,” Eimers’ recalled during an emotional interview.Įimers learned the guardrail was an X-Lite, the same type involved in a number of crashes throughout the country in which vehicles were impaled. Hannah’s vehicle struck a guardrail, which speared her car, killing her instantly.
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Early the next morning, Eimers received a call that the 17-year-old was in a serious car crash near their home in Tennessee. “I had a bow, and I was heading out to the woods to go deer hunting,” Eimers said. Halloween of 2016 was the last time Steve Eimers would see his daughter Hannah. Alaska’s News Source has been looking into this for the past five months and found there could be nearly 300 of them on Alaska’s roadways right now. The X-Lite guardrail met federal safety requirements when it was approved for installation back in 2011, however, the guardrail doesn’t meet today’s standards - though many remain on state highways. This all surrounds a specific type of guardrail end terminal that dozens of states have removed, but Alaska’s News Source found is still prevalent here in Alaska. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - For nearly six years, a Tennessee father has been on a mission to warn states and drivers about what he calls “potentially deadly dangers” on our nation’s roadways.