GDOT mapping Georgia highways to ID bad guardrails; most are in N. Ga.

State transportation officials are mapping the state's interstate system to identify problematic guardrails that need to be removed.

WALB-TV ( http://bit.ly/1LGBSga ) in Albany reports about 2,000 breakaway cable terminals that should be removed have been identified after a survey of the state's interstate system. Now officials are examining state highways.

The Federal Highway Administration advised that breakaway cable terminals needed to be taken out.

A spokeswoman for Georgia Department of Transportation, Natalie Dale, said state workers are trying to identify how many are left so they can be removed. She told the TV station most of the questionable guardrails are in north Georgia.

(AccessNorthGa.com's Ken Stanford contributed to this story.)