Luas services resume after collision

[Colm Moore]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1219/luas.htmlLuas services resume after collision
Updated: 22:10, Sunday, 19 December 2010

Three people were taken to hospital after a collision between a Luas tram and a car in Dublin this afternoon.

The incident happened at around 1.15pm.

For precautionary reasons three people were brought to hospital.

Two of those were travelling on the Luas, and one person was travelling in the car.

Luas services had been affected, but full service has now been restored.


Keywords: luas, dublin, blackhall place

[Colm Moore]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/1220/1224285916301.htmlThree injured as Luas tram and car crash
ALISON HEALY

THREE PEOPLE were taken to hospital yesterday after a crash involving a car and a Luas tram in Dublin city centre.

The incident happened on the Luas red line, which runs from the city centre to Tallaght, at about 1.30pm. The car and tram crashed at the junction of Blackhall Place and Benburb Street.

A Luas spokeswoman said the car hit the front of the tram. The tram driver, a passenger and the motorist were taken to hospital for precautionary reasons but did not sustain serious injuries, she said.

Luas services on the line were curtailed for about 40 minutes.

The junction has been the site of several collisions since the trams started running in 2004. Two crashes occurred within a month of each other that year, with seven people hospitalised in total.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1219/breaking26.htmlThree taken to hospital after Luas crash
ALISON HEALY

Three people were taken to hospital this afternoon after a collision between a car and a Luas tram in Dublin city centre.

The incident happened on the Luas red line at about 1.30pm, at the junction of Blackhall Place and Benburb Street.

A spokeswoman for Luas said the car hit the front of the tram. The tram driver, a passenger and the motorist were taken to hospital for precautionary reasons, she said, but did not sustain serious injuries.

Luas services on the line, which runs from the city centre to Tallaght, were curtailed for about 40 minutes, before normal services resumed. The scene of the incident was also closed off to traffic until the car was removed from the scene.

[Mickey H]

On a related matter. Is it known if the tram from the O'Connell Street crash has been scrapped? Pictures at the time showed very severe damage and I think they have a surplus of trams??

[Mark Gleeson]

Tram is probably impounded until the legal case is completed.

It only needs a new front end, fairly easy to get from Alstom

[Colm Moore]

On a related matter. Is it known if the tram from the O'Connell Street crash has been scrapped? Pictures at the time showed very severe damage and I think they have a surplus of trams??The nose of the tram is fibreglass. It partially there as a crumple zone, but also as something sacrificial (it still probably costs more than a thousand euros) for when incidents happen. When someone was run over (by the nose only) at Jervis (he ran across at the last moment), the fire brigade simply came along and cut it away.

Directly in front of the driver, within the nose, there is a buffer that matches the position of the ones at the ends of the lines. this is quite structural and connected to the rest of the tram structure. I'm not sure if it has its own crumple* / compression** zone.


*Relying on piece of the frame to deform, so that deceleration and damage to the rest of the vehicle is reduced. It would also reduce injuries, by making the collision less sudden.
** Relying on a very heavy spring or a hydraulic or pneumatic device to do something similar.