sprigeteer

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I've just read that this guy was on the phone and that the conversation contributed towards the crash and his suspected negligence. The amazing thing is that it seems to be an incoming call from his work.

I see so many active mobile users driving their cars. One nearly drove straight in to me the other day on a very straight 30 zone. Luckily I saw him a mile off - hunched over, no eye contact oblivious to all around him. If I was a betting man I'd say he was texting or reading a text. I was forced to slow, give it the horn until he realised where he was on the road and went back to where he should have been in the first place. Why do people do it and take the risk?

RA Dunk

AFAIK it isn't illegal to use the phone while driving in Spain is it?

tubbytommy

iTrader: (20)

Shouldnt the trains have a safety system so they dont speed anyway.

johnlogie

iTrader: (4)

I heard he was talking to a superior work colleague? Was he on his mobile or the radio? train drivers do use radios to communicate to signallers.
I'm sure there is a bell noise sounds as a warning if they are speeding in areas and some trains are fitted with automatic braking systems, it just depends on where the warning/auto systems are.
Sadly this looks like human error and he will have to live with the fact that he has killed these people.

RIP the lost ones

dpb

Probably telling him to slow TF down

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Can't see how it's human error - this is what the safety systems are for, to avoid human error. It's a system failure.

Edit: Unless he manually overrode the safety system somehow, the he deserves everything he gets.

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

HR these days would have you saying it like that

Oldun

A bit more info here..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ish-train.html

and a bit more here...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23507348

dpb

He's got his A to Z out. ,you do have to be joking.!

Oldun

Unbelievable isn't it? a catalogue of circumstances coming together to cause a disaster.

Phone, map reading, too fast, no train safety equipment......


There will be a massive blame game to follow.