To Bay Area College football star Darrell Blackman november, 2014. His Chrysler Sebring hit a sign post and flipped upside down. He should not have been taken away. If he fell asleep at the wheel, fine. But those, that equipment should have saved him. It should have stopped that car. Reporter the report finds states have been slow and questions integrity of the process, where lab employees tested devices within their parent organization. It recommends a process for Third Party Verification resulting from crash test labs and the gao urges real world crash data. That part of the report, i think, is particularly appalling that we dont respond quickly enough. Those m the state senate is both the usdot and californiadot was not responsive enough. Reporter caltrans placed a moratorium on units but there are still 3,000 on highways. Theyre waiting for crashes or maintenance issues. Today, i stopped by the spot where Darrell Blackman died. A car hit the end unit again but it wasnt a et plus. W
To fix it nationally. A report blasts federal highway regulators for failing to protect the public to a guardrail system that has been linked to injuries and deaths across california and the country. This report is three years after the abc7 news i team first investigated. Dan and ama, you can see them every day. The end pieces that are supposed to protect you in a crash but this report finds a lot of work must be done to keep you safe on the road. The report from the General Accounting Office urges more robust department of transportation oversight on guardrails. Why did you push for this study . Started with your investigative reporting. I brought the issue to him three years ago, complaints about an end unit. Its supposed to slow a car down by letting the guardrail peel away. But losses allege it can lock up, causing the guardrail to pierce the car or kick off to the side, allowing the car to continue on. That appears to be what happened to Bay Area College football star Darrell Bla
06 in San Francisco. But you know we could use six tenths but we will not get that from this system. Some rain reports vallejo and benicia. Santa rosa looks like they are getting rain. There is really not a lot to this system. It looks like a lot of rain. Maybe out to the Russian River and back toward petaluma as well. After that its kind of hit and miss. It is beginning to pick up a little bit. Highway 17, santa cruz. 40s and 50s on your temps. I doubt these travel very far. And a little bit of a south breeze. 5158. We to have a better system on thursday. That will come down from the northwest. It will have a little bit more cold weather. Today and tomorrow we do get some rain out of this. 60s on the temps. It will be a little cooler today. Here is sal. Ive been talking about all the rain and being selfserving but i have not been listening to you. Nothing personal. We havent been as bad as we normally are becauses rain snuck into the morning commute. But now we are getting more crashe
How did you deal with the winds . Hufnler hunkered down. Yeah, we all did. Lets talk about the weather. There was some rain, Russian River and some areas where there was 4 to 8 inches. Lake county, middletown almost 8. 5. Cass za it der row, Russian River, 7. Santa cruz mountains, 7. Forestville, 5. 25. Petaluma, 3. 10. San jose 1. 67. Two reports in San Francisco. One from steve at mount davidson. The other from the did dubose triangle. The Second System responsible to the breeze to the wind is up to the pacific northwest. Still shower activity, fort bragg, willits, mendocino county, lake county north. After that, theres not a lot in napa or sonoma county. But there is a little bit. But everything is beginning to lift northward. Still a breeze but nothing compared to what we had on the weekend. Still a breezy, blustery day. Higher elevations, 35, 40. At the surface its beginning to calm down. More sun to the south. Temperatures, 60s to upper 60s and with the humidity factor very high,
Morning. It is just the way he is. I know. He is a regular guy who became a senator and then the Vice President anyway, we have snowfall totals from yesterday, in case you missed them 7 inches in cape may thats about the most we could find and that played out pretty much the way it was supposed to. Because the further south you went, the higher the snowfall totals were, egg harbor city, 6 inches haddon heights, new jersey, little over 5 inches, five in south philly at the airport we got about three and a half, and little over three and a half in media, in delaware county. So now were just left with the mess, and some black identification in the area. No precipitation yet. The clipper system still pretty far away, leading edge of it in ohio, not too much snow with it, probably wont see a whole lot whatever we do see later this afternoon. Heres what were dealing with cold, which well see balmy on friday morning when you see 13 degrees and windchill of five, weve got even colder air on th