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Re: BREAKING: NJ TRANSIT Train Collides With Wall At Station In Hoboken |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Sep 30 13:22:40 2016, in response to Re: BREAKING: NJ TRANSIT Train Collides With Wall At Station In Hoboken, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Fri Sep 30 12:13:43 2016. I read your post, but you cannot consider the railcar in isolation from the bumping block. Your speculation about how the occupants of a European railcar would have fared requires you to accept that the bumping block would be changed out for one which is able to share the task of deforming to absorb energy with the railcar.It would have shredded the car killing half the people in it while saving the one passenger on the platform - bad trade. Really?  No fatalities on the train or on the platform. The lightweight EMU is hardly "shredded". Again, your attempts to use speculation to bolster the case for the FRA's foolish rigidity requirements is without merit. In Hoboken's case even with the inadequate bumping block the victim might have survived and the structure could have remained intact had the train incorporated crash energy management systems to keep it from jumping the block. And no, nobody on the train would have died. It isn't a trade-off and it's foolish to try to make that specious argument. |
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