The former secretary of the CIAF has acknowledged that inserting them was dominated out to keep away from “technical issues” Renfe had requested the location of those beacons the place there have been vital modifications in pace Those beacons would have prevented the accident of the practice that derailed in Santiago in July 2013
The Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF) dominated out inserting beacons on vital pace modifications on the road the place the Alvia practice crashed in Angrois in 2013 (by which 80 folks died and 140 have been injured) as a result of “it was not really easy” to put in them and, additionally, as a result of they precipitated failures with the ASFA system, enabled on the observe.
This was admitted this Wednesday by the secretary of the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF), Edmundo Parras, who was the rapporteur for the report of the physique depending on the Ministry of Public Works on the accident, and has completed so within the trial for the tragedy which is well known from the month of October in Santiago de Compostela.
Parras has confirmed that after the accident that occurred in Medina del Campo in 2008, Renfe requested the location of those beacons, which might have prevented the Angrois accident, however that the CIAF dominated them out, understanding that their set up “was not really easy”.
After the tragedy in A Grandeira, the place the driving force needed to go from 200 to 80 kilometers per hour, beginning to brake earlier than the limitation and taking a greenway sign as a reference, beacons have been put in at vital modifications in pace.
Reinforce the coaching of practice drivers
Despite not responding to Renfe’s request, he clarified, the CIAF really useful that they be vigilant in case different occasions occurred and that they wager on “reinforcing the coaching of practice drivers to keep away from threat behaviors.”
He has additionally identified that, now “prior to now”, everyone seems to be conscious that “with extra measures” safety would have been larger however he assures that till the second of the incident, registered on July 24, 2013, everybody shared that “the problem It labored fairly properly.”
Parras has additionally insisted that the justification for eradicating ERTMS from the road and returning to ASFA “was cheap” as a result of the ERTMS system “had given issues” and subsequently its change “was justified”.
“It was not given extra relevance at the moment. Now there’s a totally different sensitivity however at the moment everybody thought it was high-quality and the rules have been complied with”, he remarked within the room that hosts the oral listening to, within the City of Culture of Compostela.
No warning that the curve was harmful
The export of the danger to observe the pace in Angrois was, he assured, “regular” and in accordance with what was used to do” whereas “there was no warning that this curve -the one in A Grandeira- was outrageous”.
In his opinion, the CIAF didn’t discover it essential to signalize the Angrois curve as a result of it was a change of pace that already appeared each within the driver’s most pace desk and within the time e book.
Finally, Parras -who is now retired- has ratified the whole report made for the CIAF and by which the accountability for the accident is restricted to a driver’s error, which is strictly the rationale why each the victims and the European Railway Agency They cross out that textual content as partial.