Re: Signaller causes SPAD

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Peter" <pmilne@the.net.nz> wrote in message news:Hwhx5.19755
> I do not know if this was covered earlier, but are there not time delays
that
> hold the route if a signal is put to 'danger' in the face of a driver
> (operators would need the facility to put signals to 'danger' to deal with
> emergencies).
>
> Surely a driver would only be expected to use best endeavours to stop if
the
> previous distant signal was 'clear'.
>
> Assuming computer logs are kept, it should be easy to reconstruct what
> happened after such an incident.


Usually the signaller will just apologize and/or explain and let the Driver
know he's right to go.