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"etymology_text": "From New Jersey (the location where the most popular design of such barriers originated) + barrier.",
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"ref": "2013, Richard Kirchner, Surveillance and Threat Detection: Prevention versus Mitigation, page 105",
"text": "One incident in May was a possible threat indicator when a Jersey barrier on the east perimeter was rammed by a slow-moving car.",
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"ref": "2006, John McCool, Kendall D. Gott, Eyewitness to War, Volume. 1: U S Army in Operation AL FAJR: An Oral History",
"text": "His squad had entered the first room of the house and, as they were about to enter the second room, they were engaged by a couple insurgents who were hiding behind a concrete Jersey barrier they'd brought into the house.",
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"ref": "2013, Christine Dumaine Leche, Outside the Wire: American Soldiers' Voices from Afghanistan",
"text": "At night this gap is closed off by a simple concrete Jersey barrier, and the pit is left to those outside the wire.",
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"ref": "2007, Ellis John, John W. Lee, Police Analysis and Planning for Homicide Bombings, page 198",
"text": "A Jersey barrier is highly effective at turning a vehicle back into its parallel lane of travel, but much less effective at dealing with a perpendicular force hit.",
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"ref": "2008, John A. Bissonette, Patricia Catherine Cramer, Evaluation of the Use and Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossings, page 60",
"text": "The same result was found when measuring the length of Jersey barrier or guardrail within the 800 m buffer in high- and low-kill UVC zones.",
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"ref": "2013, Donald E. Struble, Automotive Accident Reconstruction: Practices and Principles",
"text": "The paper also included a completed scene diagram, included a wrecked tractor and semi-trailer, damaged asphalt area, gouges, skip lines, and displaced Jersey barrier sections.",
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"ref": "2007, Khaled Mahmoud, Innovations in Bridge Engineering Technology, page 187",
"text": "The freeway section configuration of the highway was constructed on embankment and provides for two lanes of traffic in each direction divided by a Jersey Barrier along its entire length creating significant challenges for maintenance of traffic for any work perfomed within its limits.",
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"ref": "2013, Linda J. Barth, A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone, page 155",
"text": "According to the Hunterdon County Historical Society, frequent accidents on the steep road over Jugtown Mountain in Hunterdon County led to the first installation of the Jersey barrier.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, John McCool, Kendall D. Gott, Eyewitness to War, Volume. 1: U S Army in Operation AL FAJR: An Oral History",
"text": "His squad had entered the first room of the house and, as they were about to enter the second room, they were engaged by a couple insurgents who were hiding behind a concrete Jersey barrier they'd brought into the house.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Christine Dumaine Leche, Outside the Wire: American Soldiers' Voices from Afghanistan",
"text": "At night this gap is closed off by a simple concrete Jersey barrier, and the pit is left to those outside the wire.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Ellis John, John W. Lee, Police Analysis and Planning for Homicide Bombings, page 198",
"text": "A Jersey barrier is highly effective at turning a vehicle back into its parallel lane of travel, but much less effective at dealing with a perpendicular force hit.",
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"text": "The same result was found when measuring the length of Jersey barrier or guardrail within the 800 m buffer in high- and low-kill UVC zones.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Donald E. Struble, Automotive Accident Reconstruction: Practices and Principles",
"text": "The paper also included a completed scene diagram, included a wrecked tractor and semi-trailer, damaged asphalt area, gouges, skip lines, and displaced Jersey barrier sections.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Khaled Mahmoud, Innovations in Bridge Engineering Technology, page 187",
"text": "The freeway section configuration of the highway was constructed on embankment and provides for two lanes of traffic in each direction divided by a Jersey Barrier along its entire length creating significant challenges for maintenance of traffic for any work perfomed within its limits.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Linda J. Barth, A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone, page 155",
"text": "According to the Hunterdon County Historical Society, frequent accidents on the steep road over Jugtown Mountain in Hunterdon County led to the first installation of the Jersey barrier.",
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