Near miss as Dart driver passed through red light signals during storm
A collision between two DART services travelling to Bray was narrowly avoided near Clontarf during Storm Barra in 2021 after a driver passed through two red light signals on the line.
The controller requested the driver of the other train, which had stopped at the Fairview depot ramp to switch drivers, to keep moving. An official investigation concluded that the driver of the second DART was over reliant on the train’s Automatic Train Protection system which initiates automatic braking if it exceeds a target speed.
The RAIU noted that a previous assessment of the driver of the second train had not identified his overreliance on the automatic braking system.
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