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‘A passenger train derailed and crashed onto a motorway below in the US andwhile travelling at a speed of 80 miles per hour well over twice the speed limit in a 30 mile an hour zone’
A passenger train derailed and crashed onto a motorway below in the US and preliminary investigations show that it had been travelling at a speed of 80 miles per hour well over twice the speed limit in a thirty mile an hour zone. So far it is reported that three people were killed in the accident which left at least a hundred people injured.
In a modern first world nation like the states, it is shocking to see such a failure in implementing easy safety measures including automatic speed controls in the system guided by GPS.
This would be as simple as speed warning alarms on SAT NAV in vehicles but on trains be better improved to automatically slow down the train to the requisite speed limit even if the driver fails to respond. This can include, shutting down engines and even braking the train and bringing it to a halt automatically. In my view such simple technology could have played a big role in averting such a disaster which clearly endangers public safety such as the train falling onto a public highway below.
The US Amtrak passenger train derailed onto a motorway in Washington state during rush hour on on Monday morning.
72 of the injured victims were taken to hospitals after most of the Amtrak train’s carriages left the track at a speed of 80miles per hour well over twice the speed limit in a thirty mile an hour zone.
It is reported that several of them are in a critical condition.
The carriages hit a total of seven vehicles, two of them lorries, on the I-5 highway below, from a section of track, south of Tacoma, previously only used for freight trains and at the time of the accident the passenger train was on its first run on this section More news to follow. By Sibusiso Ngwenya
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