Saving highway lives

While the aggregate industry's products contribute to smooth roads, which translates into highway safety, there are other safety efforts afoot along our highways. For instance, a relatively low-cost safety device — steel cable strung in highway medians — is proving phenomenally effective at saving lives, perhaps more so than steel-beam or concrete barriers, according to an article in USA Today.. Steel-beam, concrete and cable barriers all cut down on accidents in which cars cross over into oncoming traffic. Cable, however, also cuts down on the number of rebound accidents, in which a vehicle hits a barrier and bounces back into traffic. Interesting.