Patent ID: 7819604

Claim:
A barrier for placement along a road to reduce the momentum of a moving object impacting the barrier and ideally bring the object to a stop using the weight of the object itself, comprising: a plurality of barrier sections coupled to one another, each of said barrier sections comprising: a horizontal portion; a vertical portion extending upward from a middle region of said horizontal portion to provide said horizontal portion with a front part and a rear part, said front part of said horizontal portion having a flat upper horizontal surface; and a front plate connected to said vertical portion and spaced apart therefrom, said front plate being adapted to receive the impact from the moving object, said front plate being arranged above said front part of said horizontal portion such that the moving object is situated on or over said flat upper surface of said front part of said horizontal portion when impacting said front plate and the weight of the moving object applied to said front part of said horizontal section prevents said barrier section from tipping over, wherein said front part of said horizontal portion has a length of about 2 meters, the length being defined between a forward edge of said horizontal portion and said vertical portion, such that when the moving object is a vehicle, at least one front tire of the vehicle is on or over said horizontal portion when contacting said front plate.