2025-08-12 01:51:11

英国铁路公司因斯通黑文安全事故被罚款670万英镑

  

  File photo dated 10/09/2020 of a carriage being lifted by a crane from the site of the Sto<em></em>nehaven rail crash as work co<em></em>ntinues at the scene in Aberdeenshire, following the derailment of the ScotRail train that cost the lives of three people on Wednesday August 12. Network Rail is due in court over a train crash which claimed three lives. Train driver Brett McCullough, 45, co<em></em>nductor Do<em></em>nald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died in the derailment near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, on August 12, 2020. The case will call at the High Court in Aberdeen on Thursday. The ScotRail train derailed at 9.37am after it struck a landslide, hitting gravel and other stony material washed out from a drain. The train hit the side of a bridge, causing its power car and one of its four carriages to fall down an embankment. Issue date: Thursday September 7, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Stonehaven. Photo credit should read: Derek Ironside/Newsline Medial/PA Wire

  英国铁路网公司承认在一起造成三人死亡的铁路事故中存在健康和安全缺陷,被罚款670万英镑。

  2020年8月12日,45岁的火车司机布雷特·麦卡洛、58岁的列车长唐纳德·迪尼和62岁的乘客克里斯托弗·斯图奇伯里在阿伯丁郡斯通黑文附近的脱轨事故中丧生。

  周四,在阿伯丁高等法院,该公司承认了导致死亡的一系列失误,对2011年5月1日至2020年8月12日期间的指控表示认罪。

  这包括没有告知司机以每小时75英里的速度驾驶火车是不安全的,也没有提醒他在脱轨当天的恶劣天气下减速。脱轨事故还造成6人受伤。

  此外,在排水设施的建设、检查和维护以及恶劣和极端天气的规划方面也存在失误。

  法官马修斯勋爵周五在法庭上对网络铁路公司作出判决时,对该公司罚款670万英镑。

  由于认罪,这个数字从1000万英镑减少了。

  File photo dated 13/08/2020 of emergency services inspecting the scene near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, following the derailment of the ScotRail train, which cost the lives of three people. Network Rail is due in court over a train crash which claimed three lives. Train driver Brett McCullough, 45, co<em></em>nductor Do<em></em>nald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died in the derailment near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, on August 12, 2020. The case will call at the High Court in Aberdeen on Thursday. The ScotRail train derailed at 9.37am after it struck a landslide, hitting gravel and other stony material washed out from a drain. The train hit the side of a bridge, causing its power car and one of its four carriages to fall down an embankment. Issue date: Thursday September 7, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Stonehaven. Photo credit should read: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

  File photo dated 21/08/2020 of investigators co<em></em>ntinuing to work at the scene near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, following the derailment of the ScotRail train, which cost the lives of three people on Wednesday August 12. Network Rail is due in court over a train crash which claimed three lives. Train driver Brett McCullough, 45, co<em></em>nductor Do<em></em>nald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died in the derailment near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, on August 12, 2020. The case will call at the High Court in Aberdeen on Thursday. The ScotRail train derailed at 9.37am after it struck a landslide, hitting gravel and other stony material washed out from a drain. The train hit the side of a bridge, causing its power car and one of its four carriages to fall down an embankment. Issue date: Thursday September 7, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Stonehaven. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

  铁路网公司承认,在合理可行的范围内,它未能确保未受雇的铁路工人和乘坐火车旅行的公众不会因为排水设施的建设、检查和维护以及不利和极端天气的规划失败而面临“火车脱轨造成严重伤害和死亡的风险”。

  辩护律师Alex Prentice KC周四在法庭上表示,网络铁路公司未能维护或检查2011年在出轨前建造的排水设施。

  他说,如果排水管按照商定的规格建造,它就能应对导致火车出轨的砾石冲刷量。

  法庭还听说,麦卡洛先生曾询问卡蒙特地区的信号员,由于这种情况,是否有任何速度限制。

  信号员告诉他:“不,我和斯通黑文之间一切都很好。”

  法庭得知,当麦卡洛先生拉下紧急刹车时,“没有足够的时间对火车的速度产生任何影响”。

  铁路事故调查处(RAIB)去年3月发布的一份报告发现,Carillion安装的排水系统存在施工错误,导致该公司无法应对事故发生当天上午该地区的大雨。

  Carillion于2018年1月进入强制清算程序。

  RAIB的报告提出了20项改善铁路安全的建议,其中许多是针对铁路网的。

  英国铁路网公司表示,他们决心在事故发生后做出的“重大改变”的基础上继续努力,这些改变“帮助我们管理了恶劣天气对铁路网的风险”,并已投资数百万美元来提高铁路的恢复能力。