Re: English Railway Accident

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Overtones of a recent thread on booms at level crossings with all the same
risk and cost issues.

Chris

jjjim <jjjim@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> On the fottage on the news it appeard the barrier was quite short, and I
> personally think there should be guard rails  (concrete) for  some distance
> before overpass. It should be mandatory.
>
> Ian Jelf wrote:
>
> > In article <%Ren6.40$o4.2840@ozemail.com.au>, David Bennetts
> > <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> writes
> > >This accident won't help engender confidence, yet it comes about because
of
> > >inadequate engineering during motorway construction, if a light vehicle
such
> > >as a landrover can slide of a road onto tracks, imagine what more damage
a
> > >heavy vehicle could do.  Clearly there should have been adequate
protection
> > >barriers to prevent vehicles coming off the road onto the tracks.
> > The barriers are designed to deflect vehicles up to a certain angle, not
> > prevent anything like a direct collision (which is, I suspect,
> > impossible anyway).
> >
> > However, it would appear that the Land Rover left the motorway *before*
> > crash barrier and somehow travelled alongside the motorway for some
> > distance before plunging down the embankment.
> >
> > If anything comes out of this accident I suspect that it might indeed be
> > new standards for crash barrier *distances* either side of bridges.
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