A Week of Transport Incidents

Only 18 days ago, on the 13th of July I made a post with the same name. A week of transport incidents. It looked at three major events that had taken place within that week in which everyday transport turned deadly.

 

It has been a bit of a chaotic week for some places around the world, with many incidents occurring on what we deem relatively safe transportation.

 

It looked at the catastrophic explosion that engulfed the town of Lec-Megantic in Quebec in which a freight train carrying oil, derailed in the centre of town killing tens of people.

There was also a train derailment in France in which 6 people were killed and 30 injured as it crashed at a station.

There was a plane crash at San Fransisco airport that killed 3 people after it was travelling to slow and hit the runway seawall.

 

Now only 18 days later, I am talking about the same thing. 3 devastating incidents that have occurred which have led us to believe that public transport is not as safe as we thought.

 

In Spain as many people will know a train travelling faster than the speed limit, derailed on a sharp corner in Spain close to Santiago de Compostella. It has been revealed today, that the black box recorded that the driver had been on the phone at the time of the incident. The current death toll is 79, as the ten carriages carrying 218 passengers flipped off the track in one of the worst train disasters in recent times.

 

A Coach crash near Avellino in Italy, on Monday, claimed the lives of 38 people in one of the worst road accidents seen in this area. The coach which had about 50 people on board after travelling back to Naples from a pilgrimage careered off the top of a tall viaduct after hitting numerous vehicles. The coach fell 98ft into the ravine below after what is believed to have been after a tire puncture.

Finally, a head on collision on a railway line in Switzerland claimed the life of a train driver, injuring 26 people. Switzerland railways are deemed the safest and best railway lines in the world.
  

 

RIP to those killed in these disasters.