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A multi-segmented, highly-portable highly-stable accident barrier device for obscuring accident sites to prevent on-looking by passersby, traffic congestion, and residual collisions, the device consisting of two telescopic poles with stabilizing feet and a mesh tarpaulin extended therebetween, the t

A multi-segmented, highly-portable highly-stable accident barrier device for obscuring accident sites to prevent on-looking by passersby, traffic congestion, and residual collisions, the device consisting of two telescopic poles with stabilizing feet and a mesh tarpaulin extended therebetween, the tarpaulin having a plurality of loops along each side edge adapted to slidably attach around the poles, a plurality of ventilation slits for passage of wind therethrough, a hook and hook fastener along its bottom edge, reflective designs, as well as additional extension screen sections, also having hook and loop fasteners along each edge and ventilation slits, for removable attachment to the tarpaulin. A method for using the device is also provided.

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What is claimed is: 1. A portable accident barrier device comprising: a pair of telescopic pole assemblies of substantially equal length, each of said assemblies comprising: a base including a vertically-oriented cylindrical post having four cylindrical S-shaped ground engaging feet affixed equidis

What is claimed is: 1. A portable accident barrier device comprising: a pair of telescopic pole assemblies of substantially equal length, each of said assemblies comprising: a base including a vertically-oriented cylindrical post having four cylindrical S-shaped ground engaging feet affixed equidistantly apart to said post in an downwardly and outwardly relationship thereto and having a locking means therein; a cylindrical body with a diameter greater than that of the post and coupled thereto in a concentric relationship therewith, said body in longitudinally slidable communication with said post and adapted to removably engage said locking means adapted to lock said body into a user-selected height, said body further comprising an assembly engagement means adapted to attach at least two portable barrier devices together; and a lightweight, substantially opaque mesh tarpaulin slidably engaged between said pole assemblies, said tarpaulin having a front side, a rear side, a left edge, a right edge, a top edge, and a bottom edge, said tarpaulin comprising: a plurality of loops vertically spaced along said left edge and said right edge adapted to slidably engage said body for maintaining said tarpaulin in upright orientation; a plurality of elongated narrow slits in said tarpaulin to permit passage of wind therethrough; a hook and loop fastener running continuously across said bottom edge on said tarpaulin rear side; and a plurality of strips of highly light reflective fabric affixed to said front side; said assembly engagement means is a slot on the exterior of said body having an outwardly pivotable peg adapted to lock into a slot of an adjacent portable accident barrier device with another body having the same structure as said body, and wherein said peg is adapted to be flipped up and to become a female expansion slot for attaching to another peg with the same structure as said peg on the adjacent body. 2. The portable accident barrier device of claim 1 wherein said strips are positioned relative to one another to form a plurality of triangular shapes. 3. The portable accident barrier device of claim 1 wherein said slits are crescent-shaped. 4. The portable accident barrier device of claim 1 wherein said pole assembly is extendable to 5 feet in height. 5. The portable accident barrier device of claim 1 wherein said pole assemblies are constructed from lightweight aluminum. 6. A portable accident barrier device comprising: a pair of telescopic pole assemblies of substantially equal length, each of said assemblies comprising: a base including a vertically-oriented cylindrical post having four cylindrical S-shaped ground engaging feet affixed equidistantly apart to said post in an downwardly and outwardly relationship thereto and having a locking means therein; a cylindrical body with a diameter greater than that of the post and coupled thereto in a concentric relationship therewith, said body in longitudinally slidable communication with said post and adapted to removably engage said locking means adapted to lock said body into a user-selected height, said body further comprising an assembly engagement means adapted to attach at least two portable barrier devices together; a lightweight, substantially opaque mesh tarpaulin slidably engaged between said pole assemblies, said tarpaulin having a front side, a rear side, a left edge, a right edge, a top edge, and a bottom edge, said tarpaulin comprising: a plurality of loops vertically spaced along said left edge and said right edge adapted to slidably engage said body for maintaining said tarpaulin in upright orientation; a plurality of elongated narrow slits in said tarpaulin to permit passage of wind therethrough; a hook and loop fastener running continuously across said bottom edge on said tarpaulin rear side; and a plurality of strips of highly light reflective fabric affixed to said front side; and a first screen section and a second screen section, each comprising a substantially opaque sheet of lightweight mesh fabric having an upper edge and a lower edge and further having an attachment means adapted to attach said first screen section and said second screen section to said tarpaulin and each further having a plurality of elongated narrow slits therein to permit passage of wind therethrough; said assembly engagement means is a slot on the exterior of said body having an outwardly pivotable peg adapted to lock into a slot of an adjacent portable accident barrier device with another body having the same structure as said body, and wherein said peg is adapted to be flipped up and to become a female expansion slot for attaching to another peg with the same structure as said peg on the adjacent body. 7. The portable accident barrier of claim 6 wherein said attachment means is a hook and loop fastener running continuously along said upper edge and said lower edge of each of said screen sections, said hook and loop fastener adapted to removably engage said hook and loop fastener on said bottom edge of said tarpaulin rear side and, further adapted to removably engage said first screen section to said second screen section. 8. The portable accident barrier device of claim 6 wherein said strips are positioned relative to one another to form a plurality of triangular shapes. 9. The portable accident barrier device of claim 6 wherein said slits are crescent-shaped. 10. The portable accident barrier device of claim 6 wherein said pole assembly is extendable to 5 feet in height. 11. The portable accident barrier device of claim 6 wherein said first screen section and said second screen section have a height of 2 feet and a width substantially the same as the width of said tarpaulin. 12. A method of using the portable accident barrier device of claim 6 comprising the steps of: removing said device from storage; placing said device, on its side, on the ground unrolling one end of said device in one direction; unrolling an opposite other end of said device in an opposite direction; adding a first screen section to the bottom edge of the tarpaulin by overlapping the hook and loop fastener of the tarpaulin bottom edge and the hook and loop fastener on the first screen section; adding a second screen section to said first screen section by overlapping the hook and loop fastener of said second screen section to said hook and loop fastener on said lower edge of said first screen section; placing said device in a vertical position; and engaging the locking means and extending said body on each pole assembly to lock said device into a user-selected height. 13. The method of using the portable accident barrier device of claim 12 further comprising the steps of: disengaging said locking means to retract said pole assemblies back to original height; placing device on its side on the ground after disengaging said locking means; unattaching said first screen section from said tarpaulin; unattaching said second screen section from said first screen section; rolling one end of said tarpaulin around a pole assembly and the opposite end of said tarpaulin around another pole assembly until said pole assemblies are adjacent to each other; and storing said device. 14. A method of using the portable accident barrier device of claim 1 comprising the steps of: removing said device from storage; placing said device on its side on the ground; unrolling one end of said device in one direction; unrolling an opposite other end of said device in an opposite direction; placing said device in a vertical position; and engaging the locking means and extending said body on each pole assembly to lock said device into a user-selected height.