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Bad Aibling train crash: German controller jailed

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Old 5th December 2016, 20:31
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Bad Aibling train crash: German controller jailed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38206468

A German court has sentenced a train controller to three and a half years in jail over a rail disaster in Bavaria which killed 12 people and injured 89.

The 40-year-old defendant, named as Michael P, admitted making a signalling error and dialling the wrong emergency number. Two commuter trains collided near Bad Aibling in February.

The controller also admitted having played a computer game on his mobile phone just before the crash.

He expressed "huge guilt" in the case.

"I would like you to know that my thoughts are with you," he told survivors, in a statement read by lawyers. The trial took place in Traunstein.

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Those who died in the crash at Bad Aibling on 9 February were all men aged between 24 and 59.

Prosecutors said Michael P had been playing the fantasy game "Dungeon Hunter 5" on his phone when he allowed the two trains on to a single-track line.


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Nevertheless there should still be better automated protection with today's technology.
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G'day,
The LONG awaited EUB incident report concerning Bad Aibling has finally been published.
https://www.eisenbahn-unfalluntersuc...onFile&v=1
It is a whopper length of a PDF and will take me hours struggling through it with mein Deutsches woerterbuch.
I am most eager to discover if any alterations to the use of ersatz signal Zs1 have been implemented by DB as a result.
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