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Written by Maxwell Shifman
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 10:54 |
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One year on from the Kerang train disaster, Dr George Rechnitzer has been interviewed by the Herald sun on the state of train safety: Crashworthiness expert and forensic engineer Dr George Rechnitzer,
who provided a report to a NSW inquiry into a train crash that killed
seven people, said the Victorian Government was failing train
passengers. "If they don't properly address the crashworthiness, if they only
talk about meeting industry best practice . . . that's woefully
inadequate," he said. "The reviews have to ask, 'Are we trying to save lives?' "If we'd just stuck with industry best practice when we were
improving car safety, we would have got nowhere in reducing the road
toll." Dr Rechnitzer, a principal at safety company DVExperts, said the
sides of the N-class train struck by a truck at Kerang were not
crashworthy.
The full article may be found here.
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