The National Transportation Safety Board says an Amtrak passenger train that derailed from an overpass south of Tacoma, Wash., leaving at least three people dead, was traveling at 80 mph in a 30 mph zone.
At a news conference late Monday Pacific Time, NTSB board member Bella Dinh-Zarr said that the speed of the train at the time of the accident had been determined by downloading the Event Data Recorder from the train's rear locomotive.
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Casey Jones you better watch your speed.
ReplyDeleteIt ceases to amaze me that, in this day and age where we can watch TV on our watches, that there are not better safety catches on trains. How many times does this have to happen.
Hell, my wife's car tells her when to stop, get back in her lane, etc. Why can't we have this on a train carrying hundreds of people!?!?!?
That was the cause of the Philly accident as well, failed to slow for a curve.
ReplyDeleteMy question is why did they spend millions and millions of dollars to cut off 10 to 15 minutes in travel time between two cities?
ReplyDeleteSeveral hundreds of people at 15 minutes additional productivity every business day....you do the math. Most likely not minimum wage earners doing a daily commute to Seattle.
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I thought these trains had computer control override to compensate for human error.Ideally that 30 MPH zone would have been programmed into the system & a conductor would not have been able to run the train in excess of 30 MPH until out of that zone.
ReplyDeleteThis is why I ride a motorcycle
ReplyDeleteThey should have had a buzzer in the cab that every few minutes it would buzz and if you didnt hit the button, the brakes would kick on. If you hit the button, the buzz would stop and then in a few minutes you would have to hit the button again.
ReplyDeleteMy question is why was there a 30 mph speed limit anywhere on a "High Speed" rail line?
ReplyDeleteA big curve!
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