BIKE: Re: mass transit safety

[Nawdry]

At 10/13/2004 14:01 , Patrick Goetz <pgoetz> wrote:


>alan_drake wrote:
> > a dozen times, the new KL monorail has a perfect safety record after a
> > year of operation.
> > I believe that a heavy piece of metal fell on a reporter's head and 
> caused severe brain damage there.
>
>It was actually a safety wheel, this happened while the system was being
>tested (i.e. before it went into production), and was ruled to be the
>result of sabotage rather than an accident.


Monorail Malaysia and the contractual operator CLAIMED it was "sabotage", 
but I have never heard of a court or other official juridical ruling that 
such was indeed the case.  Furthermore, the monorail vendor and operator 
never, to my knowledge, actually owned up to their responsibility for the 
accident, attempting during the trial to blame the victim because he was 
allegedly "jaywalking" beneath the monorail structure!  In the end, I 
believe, the court ruled on behalf of the plaintiff.

LH