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Author: Mizter TMizter T Date: Sep 7, 2008 14:02
On Sep 7, 7:46Â pm, "Peter Masson" privacy.net> wrote:
> "Mizter T" gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The Mail story says that Police Collision Investigation officers are
>> looking in to the accident. It's interesting to consider where the
>> emphasis of investigation of incidents falls when a tram is involved,
>> given that HMRI is the safety regulator (for want of a better phrase)
>> of the tram system, and BTP is responsible for policing the system.
>> This incident would appear to be more of a road traffic accident and
>> thus fall within the domain of the local (Met) police, however *if*
>> (and that is a big if) the traffic signals had in some way
>> malfunctioned then things would become more interesting given the
>> interface between highway and tramway signalling.
>
> It will be worth keeping an eye on the RAIB site to see if they open an
> investigation, though they probably won't if, as you suggest, it was
> essentially a road traffic collision.
>
The RAIB was also at the back of my mind when I wrote the above but
for some reason not at the front of my mind.
If (big if again) there was any malfunction of traffic signals linked
to the tram system then I presume they'd be very interested indeed,
but that's far from being a known at the moment.
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