Mississippi has become the sixth state to ban the use of Trinity Industries’ ET-Plus guardrails, which are the subject of a $175 million fraud verdict. Last week, a federal jury decided Trinity Industries owed the hefty sum for defrauding the government regarding its faulty guardrails, which have been cited by some for impaling drivers on impact. Mississippi’s department of transportation stressed that it has “not experienced any issues with this product in our state, and there have been no reports of any faulty ET-Plus guardrail end treatments,” according to spokesman Jarrod Ravencraft. Trinity Industries said it would stop selling the ET-Plus guardrails until further testing was completed, while also planning to appeal the $175 million verdict, which triples to $525 million under Texas law.
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