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Originally Posted by Trev
................. Both trains were on the same track, but going in opposite directions. Surely that cannot be the fault of the driver?
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For the reasons that Les and Gandalf have pointed out it could well have been driver error.
I don't know a great deal about U.S.railroads but I believe that many of them are not equipped with the same safety systems that we have in Europe. Although a small number of passenger trains do use them, most lines in the U.S.are financed by freight carrying railroads and I have even read that many of them consider it more cost effective to accept the occasional accident than to invest in expensive safety systems
That might be true for infrastructure and rolling-stock but I don't think the relatives of people killed and injured would agree.