Re: Signaller causes SPAD

[antstig@my-deja.com]

There have been cases of a stick being thrown back in a driver's face
and the driver then hitting hit.

Then comes the scary bit. The Signaller instructs the driver to proceed
over points even though they have not being scotched and clipped (we
are not talking about remote securing points here). Even scarier is
that many drivers obey this instruction.

I have been a driver for fifteen years and it would seem that today's
drivers are a bunch of wimps too scared to challenge an illegal, unsafe
instruction.

This is very bad news for passengers.

Regards

Frank

In article <39c5c049$0$26537$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
  "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>
> "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.
>
>


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