Patent ID: 7544009

Claim:
A combined guardrail safety system and cable safety system, comprising: the guardrail safety system having a plurality of guardrail posts extending along a roadway; each guardrail post operably coupled to a longitudinally corrugated guardrail beam having crowns and a valley between the crowns; elongated slots disposed in and extending longitudinally along the guardrail beam; the cable safety system having a plurality of cable posts extending along the roadway; at least two cables supported by the cable posts; the cables extending from the cable safety system to the guardrail safety system to form a flexible transition junction between the cable safety system and the guardrail safety system; a portion of each cable extending through one of the slots formed in the guardrail beam and attached to the guardrail beam; one end of each cable attached to a cable terminal assembly; and the cable terminal assembly disposed longitudinally from the flexible transition junction formed between the cable safety system and the guardrail safety system.