Description

Blade hit by car.

Blade in raised position.
Blade TMA
Blade is a Truck Mounted Attenuator, TMA, which is a construction designed to absorb energy from a vehicle that collides with a road work vehicle. This is to protect people in both vehicles from serious injuries.
Prestanda
The Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) specifies the performance requirements for TMAs. The recommended tests for evaluating crashes with TMA are divided into different test levels. Blade is tested to the highest level TL-3 and is operated at 100 km/h.
BLADE TMA is also full-scale crash test at 110 km/h, TD49/07, required in the UK.

