Reminder: C-Trains are much heavier than you and have the right of way
原始发布日期： 2015-12-21 发布者：中和字变大 字变小
City saw 4 collisions in 3 days, including a fatal crash A man was killed and a woman was critically injured in this collision with a C-Train on Saturday. (CBC) Calgary Transit says there's nothing more it can do to prevent C-Train collisions other than continuing to warn drivers to pay more attention and stop attempting high-risk manoeuvres at light-rail crossings.Officials reiterated that advice Monday after four collisions involving C-Trains and motor vehicles in the previous three days, including one fatal crash on Saturday. "At this time of the year, people are in a hurry; they're taking chances," said Brian Whitelaw, superintendent of public safety and enforcement for Calgary Transit. Most of the collisions between C-Trains and vehicles this year have involved a driver running red a light or sliding through a red light, he added. Whitelaw said C-Trains require 90 metres to stop and operators will do their best to initiate emergency braking when an obstruction suddenly appears on the tracks but it's almost always too late to avoid a crash. "In a number of incidents where we have heavy braking, we also have people (aboard the C-Train) who fall down," he said. "We've had minor injuries throughout the year that way." 2 crashes on FridayThere were two collisions between cars and C-Trains on Friday, including one in the west end of downtown at about 8:30 a.m. and another shortly after noon near the Somerset station.Then, on Saturday, a 73-year-old driver was killed and his 71-year-old passenger was critically injured when he tried to make a left turn from 36th Street onto 12th Avenue N.E. in front of an oncoming C-Train. On Sunday, a driver ran a red light at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Sixth Street S.W. and collided with an eastbound C-Train. 
Police Sgt. Paul Stacey told reporters most recent collisions involving C-Trains were the result of motorists driving too fast for conditions. (Evelyne Asselin/CBC) Sgt. Paul Stacey said all the drivers involved in the three non-fatal crashes were ticketed under the Traffic Safety Act, and speed was a factor in each collision."They were just going too fast for the road conditions," Stacey said. The fatal collision remains under investigation, he added. "We know that the crossing arms were working," Stacey said of that crash. "We're not sure why the victim made the left turn in front of the train." |