2009 Tram Collision with Bus at O'Connell Street

[Colm Moore]

.RAIU Alerts - a new report has been added to our website

Subscriber, The RAIU have published Tram collision with a bus on O'Connell Street on the 16th September 2009

Click on the link to download the report: 2013R001_Tram_collision_with_a_bus_on_OConnell_St (http://www.raiu.ie/download/pdf/2013r001_tram_collision_with_a_bus_on_oconnell_st. pdf)


Regards,
The Railway Accident Investigation Unit

[markpb]

There's an interesting note in there which says the front facing camera on the bus was broken at the time. I distinctly remember the ex-Dublin Bus CEO saying he had seen the bus CCTV footage and it (correctly) cleared the driver and put the blame on the tram driver. I wonder what camera he say?

Edit: it was the CIE Chairman, not the DB CEO. CIE Chairman Dr. John Lynch said CCTV footage clearly showed the bus driver had a green light. (link (http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/all-aspects-of-crash-will-be-examined-says-dempsey-26566930.html#sthash.Z49IDksA.dpuf))

[Mark Gleeson]

What of the second bus on the inside lane that stopped before the junction? That was undamaged and had a view of the junction and it wasn't detained in evidence so DB would have been able to pull the hard drive

It was totally inappropriate and unprofessional to make the statement

[markpb]

Two very true points. I had forgotten about the second bus CCTV.