Sentence examples for sight obstruction from inspiring English sources
"There was no sight obstruction at the crossing," said Mr. Hollingsworth.
The screen did not extend all the way to the base of the foul pole; there was a gap of about three feet from the top of the wall to the base of the screen, so that there would be no sight obstruction for fans nearby.
For crossroad accidents, there were further errors resulting from sight obstruction, masked stimuli, focus errors, and law infringements.
Factors related to the traffic environment include inadequate design and poor road maintenance and/or sight obstruction.
A unique situation that calls for special attention is that the adjacent mixed-flow lane traffic, once queued, may become sight obstruction.
In crashes between riders and passenger cars, the main factor concerning riders is misjudgement of the situation, mainly through expecting a certain behaviour from someone else, and outside intersections also priority errors and inadequate road design and sight obstruction.
Federal regulators also ask railroads to include sight obstructions in their accident reports.
According to the Federal Railroad Administration, railroads report sight obstructions in only a small fraction of crossing accidents.
But when the National Transportation Safety Board looked at a sample of 60 accidents from 1996, it found at least partial sight obstructions in more than half.
The ASD is described as the uninterrupted line of sight between the driver's eye and the obstacle, and depends mainly on the alignment configuration as well as the various sight obstructions due to constructional elements or equipment of the roadway (backslopes, barriers, walls, etc).
Several years later, Hassan et al. [8] presented an analytical model for computing available sight distance on combined horizontal and vertical highway alignments, using parametric finite elements (4, 6 and 8-node rectangular elements as well as 3-node triangular elements) to represent the highway and sight obstructions.
