by Zygmunt Gorski | Nov 7, 2018 | News
Once again an ET-Plus terminal manufactured by Trinity Highway Products of Dallas Texas has demonstrated its questionable safety performance. Yesterday morning, Tuesday, November 6, 2018 police reported that a car was westbound on Calvert Drive, south-west of...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Nov 7, 2018 | News
In 1976 the Province of Ontario enacted legislation requiring the use of seat-belts. On a wintery April in 1979, a church-going family of six adults put on their seat-belts and set out in their Oldsmobile on Highway 2 west of Woodstock, Ontario. They became involved...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Nov 4, 2018 | News
How will the new installation of High Tension Cable Barriers between Chatham and London, Ontario be repaired in a timely fashion after sustaining impact damage? That is an important question. This is one of many important issues facing Highway 401 between Chatham and...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Nov 3, 2018 | News
The following photos depict a single vehicle’s motion that was documented during our study of possible causes of collisions on major expressways such as Highways 401 or 407. Signage was present for over 1 kilometre warning this driver that the right lane was...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Nov 2, 2018 | News
A while ago a visiting acquaintance with a past life in auto racing asked me to step into his high performance sports car for a “short ride around the block”. Just after pulling out of my driveway on a residential speed he accelerated to 110 km/h before he...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Nov 1, 2018 | News
Constable Kerry Schmidt, speaking on behalf of the OPP investigation into the fiery tanker truck collision of yesterday, reported that investigators now believe that both of the vehicles that were engulfed by the fire on Highway 407 on the outskirts of Toronto were...