Train Crash in Bavaria: human error is involved

Germany - The train collision that ten people were killed and 81 wounded Tuesday morning in Bavaria is due to human error, claimed several German media. The automatic emergency braking system could not do anything there.
Train collision that ten people were killed and 81 wounded Tuesday morning in Germany is due to human error, claimed several German media. The automatic emergency braking system could not do anything there.
An employee of the switching station of Bad Aibling, a spa town in the south, has disabled the automatic signaling system says RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschand network (RND), on the basis of "sources close to the investigation." This alliance brings together 30 regional newspapers.
Citing a "reliable source", the German news agency dpa ensures, too, that the accident was due to "human error." But she said that the person or persons involved are "for now" to be determined. Contacted by the news agency afp, the regional branch of the police declined to comment.
The accident occurred at 7:00 on a one-way stretch of the line linking Rosenheim in Holzkirchen, between two regional trains launched towards one another in a turn. The shock has been ten deaths, 18 serious injuries and 63 slight.
According to the Minister of Transport Alexander Dobrindt, the tracks of the "technical problem" or a human error "are under consideration." But the railway was "secured by the PZB 90 system" supposed "to force the trains brake" to avoid collision.Convoy late
But according to the RND, automatic signaling was disabled "to let a late train", the first convoy involved in the accident, which engaged on this single track and had to rally a point where the rails separate again into two paths.
Or a second train was initiated manually on the same path in reverse, "although the usual signs are red" before the first convoy reaches its goal, says the RND.
According to Markus Hecht, a specialist in rail interviewed by the newspaper Bild, this maneuver "has the effect of disabling the emergency brake" system of PZB 90. This device was widespread in Germany after a similar accident in 2011.