At least 32 people were injured, none seriously, when an eight-car train crashed through a barrier at the end of the platform and jumped up an escalator at O'Hare International Airport on Monday, according to Chicago's Transit Authority.
Six people were listed in fair condition and 26 in good condition at three area hospitals, according to fire officials. None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening.
The train derailed around 2:50 a.m. CT as it was pulling into the O'Hare station, Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago said at a morning briefing....
Service on the Blue Line was still suspended between O'Hare and Rosemont as the morning commute began, according to transit authority alerts. Buses were being used to get passengers to and from the airport.
Agreed. I'm glad no one was seriously injured.Had this occurred at any other time of day, it would have been disasterous, just from a standpoint of hitting many people on the platform and stairs.
Anytime something like this happens, I marvel at both the remarkable technological progress we've made as a society, and the glaring lack of applications of it. There is no greater impetus of change than a tragedy that could have been avoided.A sleeping operator certainly seems to be a logical guess, but are there really no safeguards for that? A dead man's switch, for instance?
From Trains News Wire:As to a crane, talk is that the car will be cut up and removed in pieces. Perhaps a track crane could assist?
Wasn't there recently also an incident in which a Blue Line train ran away from the car barn without anybody on board?A sleeping operator certainly seems to be a logical guess, but are there really no safeguards for that? A dead man's switch, for instance? The train
would have had quite a lot of speed to make it that far "up" so if the operator simply fell asleep approaching the station, you'd think the train would have
simply stopped short of the platform. Could the operator have slumped onto the throttle? (Obviously I'm not familiar with the controls of a CTA train)
Yes.Wasn't there recently also an incident in which a Blue Line train ran away from the car barn without anybody on board?A sleeping operator certainly seems to be a logical guess, but are there really no safeguards for that? A dead man's switch, for instance? The train
would have had quite a lot of speed to make it that far "up" so if the operator simply fell asleep approaching the station, you'd think the train would have
simply stopped short of the platform. Could the operator have slumped onto the throttle? (Obviously I'm not familiar with the controls of a CTA train)
This would indeed suggest that the safeguard / deadman's switch system is not foolproof.
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