Re: British Accident 1sr Report Out - Thames Driver Not Being Blamed At This Point

[Mike Roebuck <Mike.Roebuck@cobblers.datacomm.ch>]

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 20:15:20 +1000, Eddie Oliver
<eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote:

>Derick Wuen wrote:
>
>> At Ladbroke Grove the Thames driver must have been inattentive or
>> incapacitated to ignore the yellow AWS warnings and then (apparently) a red.
>
>That is grossly pre-empting the discovery of the real reasons why he
>passed the signal at stop. There are several possible reasons which do
>not simply constitute either inattention or incapacitation - e.g. lack
>of route knowledge or "phantom" indications off the signal, to mention
>just two.


the "phantom indication" theory is gaining credence. There would have
been early morning sunshine right on the signal at the time of the
accident.

cheers

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