Disney World monorail crash kills driver

[bc6]

Looks like another rear end collision.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/05/u.s.disney.monorail/index.html

[Guest ___]

ATC systems and the trains are revolting, I tell you.

[disturbman]

And the Airbus together with the Decepticons. We are doomed!!!

[Guest ___]

Keeping AB out of the equation, between the recent incident at Disney, and DC Metro, there was a report a week of two ago of a minor collision between a few ATC controlled trains in Singapore on the new line under construction. IT was out of revenue service thankfully.

[to2leo]

I am glad that there were no kids in the driver section of the train.  I remembered I had the opportunity with a few kids to get invited to the driver's compartment where there are a few chairs for visitors to seat in.

 

I think I was in highschool at that time but it never hurts to tag onto a driver's invitation to a kid beside me 

[Tenorikuma]

There was an interesting comment made somewhere by a former employee of that monorail who's been in touch with the people there. (link)

 

He says that the engineer of the front train was apparently given the all-clear by "Central" to back into the station, even though he had to activate the override on the collision avoidance system to do so. The main questions remaining are why Central made this mistake, and why the engineer of the second train didn't react when he saw the first one bearing down on him.

[Guest ___]

N.T.S.B. RELEASES INFORMATION ON MONORAIL COLLISION AT DISNEY: The National Transportation Safety Board has developed the following information from its investigation of the collision of two trains on the monorail system at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, that occurred early Sunday morning: At about 2 a.m. a Walt Disney World monorail train, designated the Pink train, backed into another monorail train, designated the Purple train, near the TTC (Ticket and Transportation Center) station.

 

The operator of the Purple train was fatally injured; the six passengers on that train were treated at the scene. The operator of the Pink train, who was transported to the hospital, treated and released, was the only one aboard that train at the time of the collision.

 

Prior to the accident, the Pink train had been instructed to detrain all passengers at the TTC and then to operate without passengers past the station and a switch to a point where the train could be backed through the track switch from the Epcot loop over to the Magic Kingdom loop. The operator of the Pink train moved the train past the track switch and stopped. The Pink train was then instructed to back through the track switch, towards the Magic Kingdom loop. At about the same time, the Purple train, which was inbound to the TTC station, was instructed to stop at the station to detrain passengers.

 

For undetermined reasons that are currently under investigaton, the switch had not changed position needed to allow the Pink train to be routed to the Magic Kingdom loop, which resulted in the Pink train backing down the same track it had just come from, putting it on a collision course with the Purple train. The Pink train passed through the TTC station and struck the Purple train while it was outside the station.

 

There are indications that the operator of the Purple train had brought the train to a stop and had attempted to put the train in reverse prior to the collision. To this point in the investigation, no anomalies or malfunctions have been found with the automatic train stop system or with any mechanical components of the switch or with either of the trains. [National Transportation Safety Board]