False Alarms
Railway authorities usually give the drivers and signalmen the benefit of the doubt and investigate whether a wrong-side failure is the cause of the accident. This occurred with the Hinton train collision, but investigations soon showed that a wrong-side failure was not the cause.
The 2008 Chatsworth train collision was determined to be human error, not wrong side failure as a few initially said.
Read more about this topic: Wrong-side Failure
Famous quotes containing the words false and/or alarms:
“The wisest definition of poetry the poet will instantly prove false by setting aside its requisitions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)