SEBUAH gerabak kereta api condong di tepi landasan selepas terlibat dalam perlanggaran di Wenzhou, China.
WENZHOU, China - Sekurang-kurangnya 35 orang terbunuh apabila dua kereta api berkelajuan tinggi berlanggar di timur China kelmarin.
Kemalangan tersebut yang turut mencederakan 210 penumpang merupakan nahas terburuk pernah melanda perkhidmatan kereta api China sejak 2008.
Insiden itu berlaku apabila sebuah kereta api berkelajuan tinggi merempuh sebuah kereta api lain yang terhenti di atas sebuah jambatan dekat sini, sekitar 1,380 kilometer ke selatan ibu kota China, Beijing.
Ketika kejadian, kereta api pertama kehilangan kuasa akibat dipanah petir sebelum ia dirempuh sebuah kereta api peluru yang bergerak di belakang kenderaan itu.
Anggota-anggota pasukan penyelamat memasuki bangkai empat gerabak yang terjatuh ke bawah jambatan dalam usaha mencari mangsa-mangsa yang masih hidup.
Menurut agensi berita Xinhua, pihak berkuasa China menghentikan 21 perjalanan kereta api selepas kemalangan tersebut berlaku yang turut mengorbankan dua warga asing. - Reuters
http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0725&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_03.htm
Chinese Officials Blame Design Flaws in Deadly Train Crash
July 28, 2011
The signaling device at the Wenzhou South railway station malfunctioned after it was struck by lightning and failed to turn from green to red, An Lusheng, chief of the Shanghai Railway Bureau, told the news agency.
Mr. An also said that the workers on duty were inadequately trained and had failed to notice or fix the malfunction.
Xinhua’s report, the first official explanation of the cause of the crash, raises further questions about the safety of China’s high-speed rail system, one of the world’s largest and most costly public works projects. The accident occurred when one high speed train rear-ended another train near Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province.
Some experts have suggested that China might be building its system too quickly, without enough attention to safety. High-speed rail has an excellent safety record in Europe and Japan.
He Jinliang, director of the China Standardization Association of Lightning Protection Technology, said in an interview that while it was not necessarily cost-effective to make rail equipment “100 percent lightning-proof, you can definitely prevent this kind of serious accident.”
He called for further investigation into how the high-speed rail project has been protected from lightning strikes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/world/asia/28trains.html
WENZHOU, China - Sekurang-kurangnya 35 orang terbunuh apabila dua kereta api berkelajuan tinggi berlanggar di timur China kelmarin.
Kemalangan tersebut yang turut mencederakan 210 penumpang merupakan nahas terburuk pernah melanda perkhidmatan kereta api China sejak 2008.
Insiden itu berlaku apabila sebuah kereta api berkelajuan tinggi merempuh sebuah kereta api lain yang terhenti di atas sebuah jambatan dekat sini, sekitar 1,380 kilometer ke selatan ibu kota China, Beijing.
Ketika kejadian, kereta api pertama kehilangan kuasa akibat dipanah petir sebelum ia dirempuh sebuah kereta api peluru yang bergerak di belakang kenderaan itu.
Anggota-anggota pasukan penyelamat memasuki bangkai empat gerabak yang terjatuh ke bawah jambatan dalam usaha mencari mangsa-mangsa yang masih hidup.
Menurut agensi berita Xinhua, pihak berkuasa China menghentikan 21 perjalanan kereta api selepas kemalangan tersebut berlaku yang turut mengorbankan dua warga asing. - Reuters
http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0725&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_03.htm
Chinese Officials Blame Design Flaws in Deadly Train Crash
July 28, 2011
The signaling device at the Wenzhou South railway station malfunctioned after it was struck by lightning and failed to turn from green to red, An Lusheng, chief of the Shanghai Railway Bureau, told the news agency.
Mr. An also said that the workers on duty were inadequately trained and had failed to notice or fix the malfunction.
Xinhua’s report, the first official explanation of the cause of the crash, raises further questions about the safety of China’s high-speed rail system, one of the world’s largest and most costly public works projects. The accident occurred when one high speed train rear-ended another train near Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province.
Some experts have suggested that China might be building its system too quickly, without enough attention to safety. High-speed rail has an excellent safety record in Europe and Japan.
He Jinliang, director of the China Standardization Association of Lightning Protection Technology, said in an interview that while it was not necessarily cost-effective to make rail equipment “100 percent lightning-proof, you can definitely prevent this kind of serious accident.”
He called for further investigation into how the high-speed rail project has been protected from lightning strikes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/world/asia/28trains.html
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