English
Noun
crash barrier (plural crash barriers)
- (chiefly British) A strengthened barrier installed on the sides of a (usually major) road to keep vehicles on the carriageway and reduce the risk and/or impact of crashes.
Synonyms
Translations
barrier on the side of a road
- Danish: autoværn n
- Dutch: vangrail (nl) m or f
- Faroese: bilverja f, vegstokkur m
- Finnish: reunakaide, suojakaide, turvakaide; (one preventing head-on collisions) keskikaide
- French: glissière de sécurité (fr) f, rail de sécurité (fr) m, barrière de sécurité (fr) f
- German: Leitplanke (de) f, Schutzplanke (de) f, Leitschiene (de) f (Austria)
- Italian: guardrail (it) m, barriera di protezione f, barriera protettiva f, barriera di sicurezza (it) f, barriera stradale f, barriera di contenimento f, guardavia (it) m or f (rare), sicurvia (it) m or f (rare), guardastrada (it) m or f (rare), guidovia (it) m or f (Switzerland, rare), guardaraglio (it) m (rare)
- Polish: bariera energochłonna f
- Spanish: guardarraíl m, quitamiedos (es) m, quitavidas m (peyorative), bionda f, guardavía m (rare)
- Swedish: vägräcke (sv) c
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