【閲覧注意】ドイツ列車事故、死者10人・負傷者81人 事故発生直後の様子を捉えた映像が公開される

2016.02.11

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ドイツ南部バイエルン州バート・アイブリングで今月9日、列車同士の正面衝突事故が発生した。事故が発生したのは、午前7時ごろ(現地時間)だったため、大勢の通勤客が乗車しており、10人が死亡、80人ほどが怪我を負ったという。そんな大事故発生直後の車内の様子を捉えた映像が「LiveLeak」にアップされた。

そこに映し出されるのは、床に倒れる男性やメチャクチャになった車内の様子。動画の冒頭部分ではうめき声のような音声も聞こえる。撮影者はそんな車内を移動し、大勢の人たちが集まるところへ行き着く。そこには、頭から大量に出血する男性たちが…。その後も散策を続ける撮影者は、無事だった人たちと会話し、車外へ。しかし外へ出ても、うめき声が…。

この路線は単線で、カーブ付近で2台が正面衝突したとみられている。ドブリント運輸相は緊急会見を開き、「どちらの列車も100キロ近いスピードで走行していたとみられ、高速で走りながらカーブしたため、2人の運転手はお互い気づかなかった可能性がある」と発言した。

ドイツでは、2011年に貨物列車と旅客列車が正面衝突して10人が死亡した“ホールドルフ鉄道事故”があり、列車には自動列車制御装置が設置されていた。しかし、今回の事故ではその装置が作動していなかった可能性があるという。

ドイツ当局は列車の運行データを記録した“ブラックボックス”を回収し、分析して事故の原因を早急に調べている。一部メディアからは、1998年に101人の犠牲者を出し、ドイツ国内で戦後最悪の鉄道事故といわれる“エシェデ鉄道事故”以来の惨事との報道もある。メルケル首相は「このような不幸がなぜ起きたのか、全関係省庁が全力を挙げて解明すると信じる」と発言。技術的なミスであるか、人為的なミスであるかは不明だが、このような悲惨な事故を再び起こしてはならない。

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参照元 : TOCANA


Black boxes recovered from site of German train crash that killed 10

Investigation into head-on collision that killed at least 10 people and injured scores more to focus on cab signalling system



Rescue workers at the site of a head-on collision between two commuter trains in southern Germany have uncovered two black boxes and are searching for a third.

The transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said the black boxes would likely hold the key to the cause of the accident, which has killed at least 10 people and injured scores more, at least nine of whom are in a critical condition.

Speaking at a press conference in Bad Aibling, Bavaria, close to where the accident took place, Dobrindt described having visited the site shortly before.

“There’s a horrific picture to be seen there,” he said. “It was shocking to see how both trains had smashed into each other. One of the trains had bored into the other.”

He said the trains “must have been travelling at very high speed”, adding that the speed limit at that part of the track was 100 km/hour.

The accident spot was on a curve in the track, he said, leading accident investigators to surmise that the drivers “did not have eye contact and neither had braked before they crashed into each other”.

Both drivers of the trains, which were travelling on the single-track railway line, were among the dead.

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Dobrindt said the accident investigation would focus in part on whether the cab signalling system with which both trains were fitted, called PZB90, were working. The system is meant to prevent collisions by triggering an alarm if two trains are on the same stretch of track, and was introduced across the German rail network after two trains crashed in Saxony Anhalt in January 2011, killing 10.

“It should automatically prevent train collisions by forcing the trains to brake,” Dobrindt said. “We need to look at whether this happened or not.” He called the tragedy “one of the worst train accidents of recent years” and said it was a “difficult hour in the history of German train travel”.

Dobrindt praised the 500 rescue workers who took part in the rescue and salvage operations, saying that the fire brigade had reached the scene three minutes after receiving the alarm.

Rescue workers described how the operation was hampered by the relative inaccessibility of the crash site – sandwiched between a canal and a steep wooded incline.

Some victims were airlifted to local hospitals by a fleet of 15 rescue helicopters, or by boat along the canal. The most seriously injured were taken to hospitals in Munich, Bavaria’s main city.

Joachim Hermann, Bavaria’s interior minister, who visited the site with Dobrindt, said the trains, one of which was travelling from Holzkirchen and the other from Rosenheim, were due to have met at a station in Kolbermoor. Hermann said that “for some reason” there had been a deviation from the timetable and the trains were not in Kolbermoor at the same time.

The trains collided near Bad Aibling at 6.48am on Tuesday.

A spokesman for the train operator, TransDev, a French company, confirmed that a driving instructor together with an apprentice train driver had been travelling in the traction unit of one of the trains.

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The deputy police president, Robert Kopp, told the press conference the trains were carrying 150 passengers. He said it was “a lucky chance” that due to school holidays “considerably fewer people were in the trains than normal”. Two people remain unaccounted for.

Klaus-Dieter Josel, a representative of Germany’s national train operator, Deutsche Bahn, said there had never been any problems on the 23-mile (37km) stretch of track. Routine checks carried out last week found no cause for concern.

Dobrindt said he was in close contact with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Bavaria’s prime minister, Horst Seehofer, who had “offered their sympathy and expressions of sadness and also thanked the rescue teams”.

Philippa Oldham, the head of transport at London’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers, said it was still too early to say what had caused the crash, but that the signalling system would be a main point of focus.

“Signalling systems should normally prevent two trains on the same track travelling in different directions … accident investigators will be examining whether there were any other technical or component causes like rail breakages, train defects or damage caused by vandalism that could have contributed to the accident,” she said.

参照元 : the Guardian News