Roma: underground train crash and rail security
Risottia
17-10-2006, 11:51
1 or 2 people killed, more than 200 wounded as a train crashes at high speed into another train stopped at underground station Piazza Vittorio in Rome.
Witnesses claim that the train ignored red signals.
What do you think about security of rail systems?
(poll coming)
Gataway_Driver
17-10-2006, 12:14
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6057876.stm
Linky for all
Boonytopia
17-10-2006, 12:44
It sounds a bit similar to the French rail crash the other day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6053204.stm
Cutting the power could be a good idea if a driver misses/ignores a signal, but wouldn't work in all cases.
The Mindset
17-10-2006, 12:48
It sounds a bit similar to the French rail crash the other day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6053204.stm
Cutting the power could be a good idea if a driver misses/ignores a signal, but wouldn't work in all cases.
Wouldn't work if the trains were diesel, for example.
Swilatia
17-10-2006, 12:50
big deal. these things happen.
Boonytopia
17-10-2006, 13:15
Wouldn't work if the trains were diesel, for example.
Yep, which is what the Luxembourg train was.
Greyenivol Colony
17-10-2006, 15:26
High speed train crash?
One or two people killed?
Already seems pretty safe to me.
Risottia
18-10-2006, 09:46
High speed train crash?
One or two people killed?
Already seems pretty safe to me.
Yea it is a lot safer than travelling by car. Anyway, newspapers (at least here in Italy) give 10 pages to a train crash (1 death), and just some lines to huge motorway car chain-crashes (5-10 deaths on the average). Last year we had 6000 deaths due to car crashes (against about 500 murder cases), still people travel more by car than by train.
I think this happens because
1.Trains are supposed to be PERFECTLY safe, and train crashes happen a lot less often than car crashes
2.A train crash is more spectacular.