Train Crash: System fails

brussels - The train crash earlier this week in Belgium that left three people dead, was due to the lack of a safety system.

'This should never happen again, it sounded after the train accident in Buizingen, Belgium in 2010, with more than 20 people died. Therefore, the entire rail network was equipped with the safety system TBL1 +. This system ensures that a train automatically brakes if the driver ignores a red signal.

But the signal at the site of the accident Sunday night in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse was not equipped with the security conscious. This is evidenced by documentation of the railways and was confirmed by the investigation site.
  
    
     
      
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'It is very clear. If the signal does feature was then the accident would not have happened, 'said a source in the investigation. The passenger train is after 800 meters after the sign crashed into the freight train. According to specialists track which is more than sufficient to bring to a stop a train of that type.

Infrabel, which is responsible for the installation of safety on the rail network, will not comment yet, but previously stated that 99.9 per cent of the rail network is equipped with the safety system TBL1 +, but this does not mean that all messaging feature such security.