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| | California Design Immunity Prevails in Interstate Crash |
 | | Interstate Route 405 at the accident location is a north-south freeway with four twelve-foot wide lanes on either side. |
 | | Based on the recommendations I made in that report, State of California policy was changed so as to limit median barrier placement, based on traffic volume and median-width characteristics alone, to medians less than 46-feet wide. |
 | | He added that under today's standards, although not specifically in California, "the normal transition is up to 1,500 feet in length, with a 1,000-foot minimum." Moreover, Krueper stated, between June 1987 and November 1990, there were four cross-median accidents in the subject area, including the Higgins incident. |
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