Patent ID: 7182320

Claim:
A highway guardrail system for use along a roadside and having upstream and downstream ends, comprising: (a) at least one longitudinally corrugated rail adapted to be generally horizontally mounted along a roadway by a plurality of support posts and having a generally longitudinal valley therein, said at least one rail having a front side and a rear side; (b) two openings in the at least one rail provided at longitudinally spaced-apart upstream and downstream locations along the at least one rail, each of said two openings extending through the rail from said front side to said rear side; (c) a longitudinal cable substantially spanning the distance between said two openings in the at least one rail, each of said two openings being of sufficient dimension to allow passage of said longitudinal cable therethrough, said longitudinal cable extending through each of said two longitudinally spaced-apart openings and thereby passing from said front side of said at least one rail to said rear side of said at least one rail at said longitudinally spaced-apart upstream and downstream locations along said at least one rail; and (d) an anchor bracket anchoring said longitudinal cable to said at least one rail.