THE type of wire rope barriers being installed on the Hume Highway have been cleared of causing a horrific crash that killed four people.
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VicRoads is installing the barriers along extensive stretches of the highway in the North East.
The effectiveness of the rope was questioned during a coronial inquest into the deaths of Joshua Taylor, Christopher Reddin, Nick Mongta and Corey Bray in January 2015.
They died after a car, driven by Taylor, struck a wire rope barrier, travelled down an embankment, hit the ground and rotated into a tree at Pyalong.
All four died at the scene.
Coroner Peter White said the positioning and design of the barriers did not cause the crash, and said Taylor was a young, inexperienced driver who was affected by methamphetamine.
