Patent ID: 6902150

Claim:
A guardrail support post, comprising: a continuous structural member having a top edge, a bottom edge, and a generally uniform continuous cross section extending from the top edge to the bottom edge, the structural member including first and second generally parallel flanges, and a web forming a coupling between, and extending generally perpendicular to the first and second flanges; the structural member having a lower portion installed below grade adjacent a roadway, an upper portion directly coupled with a guardrail beam, and a mid portion between the upper portion and the lower portion; wherein the first and second flanges include first and second cutouts, respectively, that occur within the mid portion; wherein each of the cutouts are spaced from respective outer edges of the first and second flanges approximately at grade; and wherein each of the first and second cutouts include a vertical dimension and a horizontal dimension, a ratio of the vertical dimension to the horizontal dimension approximately equal to or less than two.