Wendelin was seriously injured in a car accident on August 18, 2000, when a car driven by his daughter lost control and collided with a truck and a highway divider.

The car struck three workers and a utility truck before flipping over and landing on a highway divider, the police said.

The man, whose name was not released, was driving south on Route 295 when he crashed into a highway divider, said Sgt. Kevin Rehmann, a spokesman for the state police.

The answer was to prevent crashes from having consequences, through passive measures like seat belts and highway dividers.

- In 2011, the politician stated the necessity to introduce certification of highway dividers in Ukraine.

The first result of the work in this direction has been a nationwide monitoring of the old highway dividers on Ukrainian roads.

Municipalities might also someday be planting these trees as compact ornamental highway dividers.

Later, the trucks were replaced by three-foot-high slabs of concrete that usually serve as highway dividers.

Some workers announced plans for a general strike to protest the Government's action and its ban on demonstrations, and citizens rendered major streets useless by blocking them with bicycles and highway dividers so troops could not pass.

Spent artillery shells are used as highway dividers.