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 will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the aspect in which we look at them. The will, which prefers one aspect to another, turns away the mind from considering the qualities of all that it does not like to see; and thus the mind, moving in accord with the will, stops to consider the aspect which it likes and so judges by what it sees.”
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—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)