Rail
The ATSB has today released a new YouTube video highlighting the risks and hazards of working on rail, as part of Rail Safety Week.
The video features animation from a fatal accident where a passenger train collided with an excavator near Newbridge, NSW.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), at the request of the Queensland Government, has initiated an investigation into the passenger train accident at Cleveland Station in Brisbane yesterday.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau will conduct an independent systemic investigation into operations on the interstate rail line between Sydney and Melbourne in response to a request from the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP.
The ATSB has found that the major derailment of an Interail freight train at Benalla in Victoria on 2 June 2006 occurred because the train driver did not correctly interpret and respond to a signal.
The ATSB has found that the driver of a motor vehicle fatally
injured in a collision with a train on 5 June 2006, was under the
influence of cannabis and probably distracted by his mobile
telephone at about the time of the accident.
An ATSB investigation has found that a number of factors combined to cause the derailment of a freight train at Yerong Creek in southern NSW on 4 January 2006, any one of which may not have resulted in a derailment in its own right.
