The use of passively safe light poles are becoming increasingly important on both highways and rural roads. The European standard BS EN 12767 specifies performance requirements for passively safe support structures for permanent road equipment. It both defines and limits the levels of occupant injury severity when impacting these structures.
Pole Safe is an omni-directional breakaway support system for light poles located within roadside clear zones or other locations vulnerable to vehicular impacts. The primary component of the system is a high strength coupling, designed to breakaway quickly and cleanly upon impact, thus saving lives and reducing property damage costs. “Double-Neck” Pole-Safe is omni-directional, meaning the system breaks away with consistent, predictable behavior regardless of the vehicle’s angle of impact. In addition to superior safety performance, Pole-Safe provides high structural load-carrying capacity. Extensive finite element analysis and simulated wind-load testing has been used to optimize the system for maximum loading conditions. This allows Pole-Safe to be used on the largest possible range of light pole sizes and configurations for increased safety and efficiency.