Saturday, 19 June 2010 08:50
Delta-V Experts Road Safety Consultant, Roger Sanders, has been interviewed by Steve Price on Melbourne's MTR1377 radio station regarding the fatal crash in Egypt in January 2006.
Download the interview here if you are unable to use the embedded player.
Delta-V Experts were the first Australian crash investigators at the scene and prepared a preliminary report into the factual evidence collected at the site immediately after the collision. This preliminary report was subsequently tendered as part of the Coronial Inquest, and assisted the Coroner and members of the Victorian MCIU in conducting their full investigation.
The Victorian Coroner, Paresa Spanos, made the following key findings:
- ".. whichever legal entity was responsible for organising this tour which ended so tragically, they did so poorly, engaging insufficient personnel and/or allowing insufficient time to ensure the driver was sufficiently rested to undertake his duties safely and not under the burden of fatigue."
- “In the circumstances of this investigation I can only say what is obvious and very general, that is that the wearing of seat belts could potentially have prevented ejection from the bus and saved some lives and ameliorated some injuries.”
- “In my view the potential was there for ESP to have prevented the collision altogether, or at least to afford the driver some control and more effective braking so as to reduce the momentum and curtail the bus's trajectory.”
