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Researchers from the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility conducted a rare-but-successful tractor-tanker crash Dec. 8 to test the performance of a newly designed and significantly shorter concrete roadside barrier when it is contacted by a tractor-tanker truck weighing 40 tons and traveling 50 mph. More details at: https://go.unl.edu/i28h