Luas Crash, O'Connell Street.

Goodshape · 16-09-2009 3:20pm #1

Luas derailed on O'Connell street around 3pm.

Photo someone posted on Flicker here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/darragh/3926211414/

Plenty of people twittering about it : http://search.twitter.com/search?q=luas

amacachi · 16-09-2009 3:22pm

Gonna guess no-one was at fault and no-one will lose their job.

Any reports of injury?

Goodshape · 16-09-2009 3:24pm

No reports at all yet, as far as I can see. I'm just looking at tweets as they come in.

Few more pictures :
http://twitpic.com/hxjzn
http://twitpic.com/hxkzr
http://twitpic.com/hxkzy
http://twitpic.com/hxl0j

Looks like it hit the bus side-on and got dragged off the tracks? Driver's area looks fairly mangled. Hope everyone's ok :-/

//edit
RTE say no reports of injury at the moment : http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0916/luas.html

hatetherain! · 16-09-2009 3:28pm

OMG looks fairly serious.....

Munurty · 16-09-2009 3:30pm

Theres not much left of the front in those pictures. Lets hope the driver is ok.

dudara · 16-09-2009 3:30pm

Bus was northbound, and the Luas is on the Eastbound tracks. So what happened? Did the bus run the red light? Driver's cabin looks pretty mangled, I hope they're OK.

yoyo · 16-09-2009 3:32pm

Was wondering what all those sirens were about, hopefully everyones ok

Nick

cmcnulty · 16-09-2009 3:34pm

wow! I hope everyone is okay. Looks serious enough. I presume they're going to have to get a crane to remove the Luas? There is going to be a traffic nightmare in the city center today!

dudara · 16-09-2009 3:35pm

cmcnulty wrote: »

wow! I hope everyone is okay. Looks serious enough. I presume they're going to have to get a crane to remove the Luas? There is going to be a traffic nightmare in the city center today!

I presume that they'll uncouple the carriages that are OK and use another tram to tow them away. Don't know about the damaged portions.

There'll surely be an accident investigation.

Sherifu · 16-09-2009 3:36pm

Traffic nightmare ahoy .o>

AndyP · 16-09-2009 3:37pm

dudara wrote: »

Bus was northbound, and the Luas is on the Eastbound tracks. So what happened? Did the bus run the red light? Driver's cabin looks pretty mangled, I hope they're OK.

That looks favourite from looking at those pictures. Extremely unlikely that a Luas would run a signal.

admiralofthefleet · 16-09-2009 3:39pm

possible signal failure i wonder?

Goodshape · 16-09-2009 3:40pm

Keep an eye on the RTE page as it's still being updated.

Now reporting "a number of people have been injured and at least one person is trapped in the Luas tram" :-/

The Sparrow · 16-09-2009 3:44pm

My mum is down there and she just called me. She sounded very shaken and the words she used was that it was chaos there and that there was carnage. Hope by some miracle that everyone is ok.

dragonfly! · 16-09-2009 3:45pm

OMG that looks dreadful hope everyone is ok!:eek:

hugoline · 16-09-2009 3:50pm

Ambulances currently leaving and arriving in St James's Hospital under TrafficCorps (Bikes) assistance.
Hope no serious injuries

atat23 · 16-09-2009 3:51pm

yeah hope no one is hurt......

Hope I don't miss my train though >_>

Gaspode · 16-09-2009 3:54pm

Cripes, looks nasty. Isnt it amazing though how quickly pics end up on the net? I didnt even bother going to the RTE news website, Boards is the place get the news from these days!

Mr. Presentable · 16-09-2009 4:00pm

One of my family is a Luas driver. Going in to work now. Driver had to be cut from cab - no word on his condition yet.

dragonfly! · 16-09-2009 4:01pm

Gaspode wrote: »

I didnt even bother going to the RTE news website, Boards is the place get the news from these days!

It wasn't even the first thing on the news on 2fm!
Or the second.
:eek:

dragonfly! · 16-09-2009 4:04pm

today fm said that there are 5 or 6 injuries but not thought to be serious
they are also reporting that it was the luas who broke the red light

quietobserver · 16-09-2009 4:10pm

dont apportion blame!

Nedermeyer · 16-09-2009 4:13pm

dragonfly! wrote: »

today fm said that there are 5 or 6 injuries but not thought to be serious
they are also reporting that it was the luas who broke the red light

Technically, the luas would have broke a signal, rather than a red light, IF that's what happened.

Sorry to be anal retentive, just to clear that up.:D

dragonfly! · 16-09-2009 4:17pm

oops signal sorry

kenon · 16-09-2009 4:18pm

15 people in hospital with one person trapped in the tram.

cosmic · 16-09-2009 4:19pm

Jaysus, the Luas just crumpled but there's barely a dent in the 16 by comparison. Doesn't really inspire confidence in the Luas :eek:

I hope no one's seriously hurt

One death on Dublin roads already this week is too much

atat23 · 16-09-2009 4:19pm

Rte wrote:

15 people have been taken to hospital after a serious collision involving a Luas tram and a bus in Dublin's O'Connell Street.

so it went from no one injured to 5-6 people injured, 1 trapped to 15 taken to hospital. great reporting.

I blame al qaeda for this! :mad:

Sherifu · 16-09-2009 4:20pm

Live Dublin City Council traffic cam from O'Connell Bridge

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/live/ngb/rsw3-450.asx?name=Dublin_City_Traffic_Cam

Oliver1985 · 16-09-2009 4:20pm

If there is one person trapped Id say its the driver the cab looks in bits! I know its early to judge but i doubt the luas ran a signal!! Please god everyone is ok!!

atat23 · 16-09-2009 4:29pm

Sherifu wrote: »

Live Dublin City Council traffic cam from O'Connell Bridge

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/live/ngb/rsw3-450.asx?name=Dublin_City_Traffic_Cam

awesome find, followed the link from the rte website and it wouldn't work.

cheers1

lostexpectation · 16-09-2009 4:31pm

rte puts o'connell bridge traffic cam on live streaming at http://www.rte.ie/live/ can't see much though

Luas Crash, O'Connell Street.

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