RSC Statistics Report Preliminaries 2014 Railway Safety Performance 2014 21st October 2015 Railway Safety Commission i RSC Statistics Report Preliminaries 2014 Report Notice No person may produce, reproduce or transmit in any form or by any means this report or any part thereof without the express permission of the RSC. This report may be freely used for educational purposes. Any enquiries about this publication should be sent using contact details below. Contact Details Website www.rsc.ie Email
[email protected] Phone +35312068110 Address: Railway Safety Commission, Trident House, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland Railway Safety Commission ii RSC Statistics Report Preliminaries 2014 Foreword The safety performance of our principal railway operators in 2014 was, on the whole, encouraging with many key performance indicators seeing improvements on 2013. As in previous years there were no passenger fatalities, however, sadly there were 6 fatalities on our railways, 4 being as a result of apparent self-harm, 1 being the accidental death of an intending passenger at Killester Station and 1 the accidental death of person who tried to retrieve some personal items that had fallen onto the track at Sallins station. Level crossing (LC) accidents remain a cause for concern with 2 serious accidents occurring in 2014, both in Co. Mayo, Corraun LC and Knockaphunta LC. Fortunately neither resulted in a fatality. Both these level crossings are user worked, i.e., where the road user is expected to open and close the gates themselves. There were many similarities in both accidents in that the road vehicles approached the level crossings, did not stop as they should have done, and drove onto the Level Crossing into the path of a train.