A week is clear after the serious accident at Hordorf : better technology would have prevented the accident. On the one hand, the track is not even the most minimal standard of safety equipment been provided, on the other hand, the vehicles - although they are modern, not the state of the art. How can it come to such grievances, is questionable for some.
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| SBB Re 484 - one of the safest vehicles in which the EN 15 277 fulfilled and, moreover intensified fire is correct. |
Rail transport in Germany is still not really acceptable. That carried out the result that an attempt is made with the minimum investment operations. To save costs were therefore as long as possible built vehicles that meet the EU Crahsnorm not 15277th The blame for this with Neither the manufacturers nor the purchaser, but the legislature, which allows those vehicles in the free market economy. The Federal Railway Office seems to be is mainly working on the German special arrangements to enforce brake and rear-view mirror and forget to enforce the state of the art equipment type and crash resistance of vehicles.
rp-Online: There could have been fewer deaths
