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Title: On this day - Remembering one of the UK's worst rail crashes Post by: CyclingSid on November 06, 2024, 08:51:17 Paul Clifton on the Ufton Nervet crash 20 years ago https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7046dkyrl0o (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7046dkyrl0o)
Quote Twelve years after the incident, the level crossing was closed and replaced by a bridge. Must admit I still look down the turning as I go by on the bus to Newbury.Title: Re: On this day - Remembering one of the UK's worst rail crashes Post by: infoman on November 06, 2024, 14:00:43 was it not re-classed as a road accident,as the car was on the road level crossing?
BBC had a item about the accident on Wednesdays points west lunch time local news. Title: Re: On this day - Remembering one of the UK's worst rail crashes Post by: grahame on November 06, 2024, 14:26:15 was it not re-classed as a road accident,as the car was on the road level crossing? BBC had a item about the accident on Wednesdays points west lunch time local news. I don't know about its classification - but the RSSB (and R is "Rail") did do the formal report which we have as a member's mirror at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/mirror/RSSB_Ufton001.pdf . Although the report uses the word "accident" that concerns me due to what I understand to have been a deliberate act by the deceased car driver in causing the collision and thus the horrific aftermath. Title: Re: On this day - Remembering one of the UK's worst rail crashes Post by: Electric train on November 06, 2024, 16:08:43 was it not re-classed as a road accident,as the car was on the road level crossing? BBC had a item about the accident on Wednesdays points west lunch time local news. I don't know about its classification - but the RSSB (and R is "Rail") did do the formal report which we have as a member's mirror at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/mirror/RSSB_Ufton001.pdf . Although the report uses the word "accident" that concerns me due to what I understand to have been a deliberate act by the deceased car driver in causing the collision and thus the horrific aftermath. The accident was one of the drivers for the development LiDAR object detection for high risk level crossings without CCTV This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |