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Driver’s safety devices for trams

Driver’s safety devices for trams

Crucial to the controversial discourse is a medical emergency on 22nd December 2019 in Germany. Shortly after midnight, a tram on Line 66 from Siegburg station travelling towards Bonn went past eight stops and through thirteen crossings without stopping before it was finally brought to a halt by passengers. The tram was fitted with a “dead man’s switch” in accordance with the German Federal Regulations on the Construction and Operation of Light Rail Transit systems (BoStrab), but this had not prevented the near-miss incident. As was later discovered, the vehicle driver lost consciousness and the dead man’s switch blocked by his weight.

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