That disgusting rag is free for a reason.
I find it rather likely that an average passenger, such as the one being quoted, would say something like that - indeed if the train was jacked up to release her then it is quite possibly correct based on the literal meaning of "derailed" (train wheels ceasing to be in contact with the running rails). If this was something in the reporter's voice being presented as what happened then, yes you would have a point about it being misleading but it isn't.The Metro said:
A District driver was asked to resign, before disciplinary action would’ve dismissed them, for over-riding the sensitive edge system on S Stock and departed a station while a passengers coat was trapped in a door, luckily the passenger extracted themselves from the coat before the train entered the tunnel. The train didn’t stop.
That's not really a problem with the sensitive edge technology - if the operator hadn't overridden it seems there wouldn't have been a trap and drag (just a trap). I'm not downplaying what was obviously a serious incident, but it's not one you can really blame the technology for.
I was responding to the question “Has there ever been a trap and drag with S stock or . . . “ which my reply seemed to fit. The passenger was still inside the coat until just before the headwall.
As with any safety system, if edge detection gives too many false alarms there is a risk it will just be ignored or isolated.
Indeed. It's the same with the overabundance of announcements on the tube - you can't separate the wheat from the chaff so they all get ignored.
There are virtually no (never say never) false alarms with the S Stock not, there were issues when it was new.
I suspect that by the time other customers had realised what was going on, and then had time to react, they did.
