In Minnesota snow presents a special problem for rural mailbox installations. So, Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) developed cantilevered mailbox support designs. Recent studies had shown that certain rural mailbox installations easily penetrated the passenger compartment of an impacting vehicle. These same studies pointed out that a large number of people are seriously injured or killed each year as a result of mailbox collisions. Therefore, Mn/DOT initiated full scale crash test to ascertain the crashworthiness of its cantilevered design.


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    Title :

    Crash Tests of Minnesota Mailbox Supports


    Contributors:
    H. E. Ross (author) / A. Arnold (author) / R. A. Zimmer (author)

    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    50 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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