Re: English Railway Accident

[jjjim <jjjim@bigpond.com>]

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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