Satoshi Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 you know lim 'trance rapid's crashing' in germany? other train for working on lim track got caught up in this disaster too and 29 on the lim and 2 workers in the other train injured then 21 died. it was kind of face to face crashing. looks 10 of them got taken to the nearby hospital for serious hurts. all victims seemed to team up in a group for the experiment. trance rapid's kind of lim that was born in 1984 and can do at 280mph -450kph while its running for 19.6 miles long track. condolences for the families. lately what's up with german's great deal of high-tech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECZenith Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I just read about this today, very sad news. The maglev train crashed into a maintenance vehicle head on that was not supposed to be on the tracks at the time. There were 21 fatalities out of 29 passengers as most of them were riding up front for the demonstration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingScooter Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 i saw it on the news last night. Horrible accident. I kept thinking of the train episode of Seconds from Disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 It's always really sad to see a new, very promising piece of technology suffer such a fatal accident, especially at the fault of human error. I'm kind of shocked that there wasn't a better monitoring system in place, but still, with only 20 or so miles of track, they should have known better. I hope this doesn't slow down the maglev train movement, as I'm excited to try out Shanghai's and Japan is working on a test system that has already gone 350+mph! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECZenith Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 On a related note-As the last phase of Boston's "big dig" project which is already way behind schedule and way over budget, they want to build a short meglev rail connection between South and North stations connecting the Northeast Corridor with the northern routes through northern mass/NH/Canada. It would be more of a showcase of technology than a great convenience. You currently have to take two seperate subway routes to get between the stations... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas2 Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Also saw this news on tv. Really sad to know that modern technology still can't garantee to be accident free... I didn't even know they had a monorail in Germany! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezus Juice Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Man this is messed up. I can't help but think that this will but some nasty delays in the technology. Plus, like, all those dead people are probably really pissed off right now. I'd be choking someone from the otherside right now. Tragic. -Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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