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NTSB urgent recommendation for redundant train-worker protection after BART deaths

S5 · 10/19
2013 · BART

Record

CompanyBART
Categoryother
Typeregulatory
Date10/19
2013
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
Scalesystemwide recommendation
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceCBS News San Francisco

What happened

One month after the fatal automatic-mode train strike that killed two BART track workers, NTSB issued urgent safety recommendations to the Federal Transit Administration calling for redundant protection systems (e.g., positive train control or secondary warning devices) for workers on active track.

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