Derailment at Sudbury

[fsmr]

Do they not already have this responsibility to a certain degree under the Occupiers Liability Act 1996?

Given that the access route is to their works. I would suspect it would come under their risk assesment planning for the water company and if not , certainly the haulage company should have prepared one for safe use of the crossing just as they should for any low bridges on the route
Lack of understanding of English or UK railway crossing regulations is no excuse. It is no different to a tipper lorry tipping under over head power lines on private land and causing an accident. Both he haulier and landowner are liable

 

[S19]

Very unfortunate incident!

I'd posted something before looking at a report. If the driver was working for a contractor to the water company, he will have probably been unfamiliar with the site which would have been a major factor in the incident. Not excusable, but if you're in an unfamiliar environment or go blank for half a second, it can be too late.

I can't help but think the traffic in and out of the site is quite high. I'm a Wastewater Operations Engineer by trade, and have controlled many of these sites (not Anglian Water ones, but ones up here).

Frequent visits by Operations, Maintenance and Tanker staff is a lot of vehicle movements in and out of the site.

Almost seems a bit daft to have an OWC. Maybe Anglian Water will think about eliminating the risk all together and create a new route out of the site in the future.

 

[Z12XE]

The driver who caused this has today been jailed for 15 months, and banned from driving for three years.

Full Story Here

 

[ainsworth74]

Well that's something but I would have rather seen a longer jail sentence and longer ban from driving.

 

[andyfrommk]

Just a heads up to let you know the RAIB report on this incident is out now

Apparently the injuries were exacerbated by some of the tables working loose