Luas Crash, O'Connell Street.

Goodshape

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

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

Any reports of injury?

Goodshape

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 :-/

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

hatetherain!

OMG looks fairly serious.....

Munurty

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

dudara

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

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

Nick

cmcnulty

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

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

Traffic nightmare ahoy .o>

AndyP

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

possible signal failure i wonder?

Goodshape

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

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!

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

hugoline

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

atat23

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


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

Gaspode

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

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!

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!

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

dont apportion blame!

Nedermeyer

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!

oops signal sorry

kenon

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

cosmic

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

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

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

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

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

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

AIR-AUSSIE

Close up

Looks very rough.

Oliver1985

Was there anyone on the bus? Just looking there Jesus that could have been bad!

Morpheus

latest from RTE says 15 injured, 3 seriously and LUAS driver was cut free but no word on his condition. fingers crossed everyone is ok.

Just wondering, (hypothetically as the blame cannot be apportioned until an investigation is completed) could a LUAS break a STOP signal?

Had assumed that there would be some kind of mechanism, electrical or otherwise that would prevent a LUAS from moving until it had a GO signal?

Agent Smith

hope everyone's ok.


I'm sure the no side will find a way of blaming this on lisbon...

Oliver1985

Morphéus wrote: »

latest from RTE says 15 injured, 3 seriously and LUAS driver was cut free but no word on his condition. fingers crossed everyone is ok.

Just wondering, (hypothetically as the blame cannot be apportioned until an investigation is completed) could a LUAS break a STOP signal?

Had assumed that there would be some kind of mechanism, electrical or otherwise that would prevent a LUAS from moving until it had a GO signal?

As far as i know if a Luas is to pass a stop signal at danger it will only let him do it at a reduced speed! Not jumping ahead but the bus could have broken the light! We will just have to see!! Hope everyone is ok!

stop

One of the ads leading into the news on today fm at 5 there was for dublin bus.. Don Draper would have had that pulled..

mark renton

20 quid says the bus ran the red

PCPhoto

Agent Smith wrote: »

hope everyone's ok.


I'm sure the no side will find a way of blaming this on lisbon...

WTF .... stop trying to bring lisbon into this.... its a fruckin' accident...people are hurt.

BrianD

Gaspode wrote: »

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!

Actually, Twitter is! Have a search under #luas. two regular Twitters live at O'Connell Bridge with a birds eye view and were able to get photos and updates out from their front window!

Red Sleeping Beauty

That looks really bad. It's not a very good junction there and I'm always very careful crossing Abbey St. just in case.

The 16 is one of the longest Dublin Bus routes from Nutgrove to Dublin Airport.

Agent Smith

PCPhoto wrote: »

WTF .... stop trying to bring lisbon into this.... its a fruckin' accident...people are hurt.

#


Just a bit of humor!

Mad_Max

Have there been any updates on the conditions of the critical?

Agent Smith wrote: »

#


Just a bit of humor!

Just my own taste but I'd have said political "humor" in this thread isn't really humorous.

Posy

I saw it earlier on on Abbey Street and if nobody has been killed it'll be a miracle. The whole front drivers section of the luas had gone straight through the bus and was completely crumpled. I hope everyone has survived. Not a good week for Dublin City Centre's roads at all.

Oliver1985

I wonder was there track damage im sure there was wonder will things be back on in the morning!! If not its a walk to smithfield!! Once again hope all involved are ok!!

lncarosello

Video taken about an hour after the collision.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pogZaFir3X8

auroraboring

I was on Middle Abbey Street when it happened. No where in media does it mention the Gardi. A few Garda Cars were speeding down Middle Abbey Street from O'Connell street, unmarked and marked cars. They were going really fast, so much so that people went out onto the street where they were driving to if maybe something had happened at liffey Street end of Abbey). One unmarked car was speeding as it drove backwards towards O'Connell and just within those moments the bus has gone through a red light and Luas ran into it. Maybe the Gardi scared the bus driver?

Sherifu

auroraboring wrote: »

I was on Middle Abbey Street when it happened. No where in media does it mention the Gardi. A few Garda Cars were speeding down Middle Abbey Street from O'Connell street, unmarked and marked cars. They were going really fast, so much so that people went out onto the street where they were driving to if maybe something had happened at liffey Street end of Abbey). One unmarked car was speeding as it drove backwards towards O'Connell and just within those moments the bus has gone through a red light and Luas ran into it. Maybe the Gardi scared the bus driver?

Great first post.

Red Sleeping Beauty

auroraboring wrote: »

I was on Middle Abbey Street when it happened. No where in media does it mention the Gardi. A few Garda Cars were speeding down Middle Abbey Street from O'Connell street, unmarked and marked cars. They were going really fast, so much so that people went out onto the street where they were driving to if maybe something had happened at liffey Street end of Abbey). One unmarked car was speeding as it drove backwards towards O'Connell and just within those moments the bus has gone through a red light and Luas ran into it. Maybe the Gardi scared the bus driver?

And this all happened before the crash ?

dhaslam

It just shows the danger of having heavy vehicles with practically no brakes in a busy city centre. It is just unacceptable. They should be limited to the outskirts of the city or go underground.

c0mpliant

auroraboring wrote: »

I was on Middle Abbey Street when it happened. No where in media does it mention the Gardi. A few Garda Cars were speeding down Middle Abbey Street from O'Connell street, unmarked and marked cars. They were going really fast, so much so that people went out onto the street where they were driving to if maybe something had happened at liffey Street end of Abbey). One unmarked car was speeding as it drove backwards towards O'Connell and just within those moments the bus has gone through a red light and Luas ran into it. Maybe the Gardi scared the bus driver?

Even if this is the case, the driver should not put the vehicle somewhere fundementally unsafe. Still a very interesting development if this is true!