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Posted by Gold_12th on Sat May 18 02:59:30 2013 Light rail train services resumed normal operations this morning after a train derailed in Tin Shui Wai yesterday injuring more than 70 people. Several stations were closed following the incident yesterday afternoon, but are now open again after repairs were carried out overnight. The Transport Secretary Anthony Cheung visited the site of the accident this morning and said the government was concerned about what was a "very serious" incident. Professor Cheung said the MTR Corporation would report to Legco about the crash on Friday. The MTRC is carrying out an investigation into the cause of the derailment. Its CEO, Jay Walder, said the accident was of great concern to the corporation and he apologised to those injured as well as passengers who had been inconvenienced. Mr Walder said he couldn't comment on the cause of the accident but said the MTRC was co-operating with the police in investigating what happened. He added that safety was the corporation's priority. http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/news.htm?hightlight&20130518&56&922604 More than 70 passengers were injured when a light-rail train left its tracks in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long, on Friday. It was the most serious derailment in the 25-year history of the transport system essential to the northwest New Territories. Both of the train’s two carriages, which were carrying more than 150 passengers, derailed at about 4.15pm as it made a turn of nearly 45 degrees from Kiu Hing Road to Castle Peak Road. The 77 injured people, aged between six months and 70 years, were taken to five hospitals. Four were in serious condition. Some were on stretchers and wearing neck braces while one had fainted. Police investigating the cause said they did not rule out mechanical problems or human error, while an engineer and pas-sengers said the train may have been travelling too fast. “I only remember the train was moving at a high speed when making the turn – it almost fell over,” said one passenger. The rear car of the route 761P train from Hang Mei Tsuen to Tong Fong Tsuen stations in Tin Shui Wai pushed up the front one in the incident, causing it to tilt to the right. Both sets of wheels on the front car and one on the rear car left the tracks. One set was detached and stood vertically between the two cars. Windows were smashed while electric wires were toppled after the train hit a power pole. “We didn’t dare touch the metal handrails for fear of getting an electric shock,” said one passenger. The MTR Corporation, which runs the light rail system, said last night that it viewed the accident with “grave seriousness” and was “most concerned” about those injured and affected. It said it would check the black box records on the train to help determine what happened. A spokeswoman confirmed that the two carriages were assembled by a subsidiary of CSR Corporation, the state-owned manufacturer of the two trains that crashed in the mainland city of Wenzhou in 2011, killing 40 people and injuring 200. Services on five routes be-tween Hang Mei Tsuen and Yuen Long terminus were suspended. Free shuttle buses were provided. The MTR Corp said the train, its latest model, had been in service for just over a year. Professor Lo Kok-keung, of Polytechnic University’s department of mechanical engineering, said the accident could have been caused by speed, with the rear car failing to slow down as the front car made its turn. The system, which recorded 12.7 million rides in February, has experienced at least four derailments in the past decade, with seven accidents since 2008. It was hit by problems in its earliest days when the colonial government postponed its scheduled opening in August 1988 after a series of accidents during trial runs. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1239851/tin-shi-wai-train-derails-injuring-20 Seventy-seven people were injured, most only lightly, when a train derailed in Hong Kong on Friday afternoon. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. Hong Kong's Secretary for Transport and Housing Albert Cheung said the incident was "very serious" during a visit to the scene of the derailment Saturday. Mr. Cheung also said that MTR Corp. (0066.HK) could be fined up to 15 million Hong Kong dollars (US$1.9 million) if investigators find the company was responsible for the incident. Passengers sustained mostly light injuries, and authorities said that by late Friday nearly all of those sent to hospital had been discharged. Six people who remained at the hospital were in stable condition. The two-car train was traveling in the northwestern part of Hong Kong when it derailed at a turn at about 4:15 p.m. Radio Television Hong Kong cited one unnamed passenger as saying the train was going very fast and was making a turn when it suddenly derailed. Authorities said they weren't sure how fast the train was traveling. The speed limit in the area is 15 kilometers, or about 10 miles, per hour. The train is just over a year old and the driver has two years of experience, authorities said. Light-rail service in the area was suspended for several hours after the accident, with the railway company providing shuttle buses instead. Normal service resumed on Saturday morning. MTR Chief Executive Jay Walder, speaking at the site of the accident, said he couldn't comment on the causes of the incident yet. http://www.4-traders.com/MTR-CORPORATION-LIMITED-1412694/news/MTR-Corporation-Limited-77-People-Hurt-Most-Lightly-as-Hong-Kong-Train-Derails-16870899/ |
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Re: Jay Walder's company in trouble, light rail derail injured 77 people, video |
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Posted by Gold_12th on Sun May 19 03:01:36 2013, in response to Jay Walder's company in trouble, light rail derail injured 77 people, video, posted by Gold_12th on Sat May 18 02:59:30 2013. The sad CEO: news report 5-19 |
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