Thursday, 05 June 2008 10:54
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.
