Raptor® Pole Protector

Ingal Raptor® Pole Protector

The RAPTOR™ is an energy absorbing device designed to reduce the severity of vehicle impacts with utility poles or trees.

Its unique technology offers a compact low-cost solution in places where typical crash cushions would not physically fit. A utility pole (or a tree) offers no energy absorption during a head on impact; consequently the occupants and vehicle will absorb all the impact energy being released from a vehicle decelerating to a halt in a fraction of a second. The consequences are quite obvious.

Approximately 30% of the run-off-road fatalities involve severe impacts with hard objects such as poles and trees. The cost of removing these hazards can be prohibitive as it may involve re-layout of the road itself; as a consequence these hazards are often left unattended until a serious accident occurs.

RAPTOR™ offers exceptional vehicle control and energy absorbing capabilities during head on collisions; the impact energy is absorbed by internal plastic cartridges. RAPTOR™ is also capable of deflecting a vehicle in side-on angled impacts. The RAPTOR™ system has been tested to both MASH and NCHRP 350 guidelines for a gating, non-re-directive crash cushion and has been judged to have satisfied the required evaluation criteria for Test Level 1 (TL-1).