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The Smiler Incident 02/06/2015


Ian-S

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Breaking news just on the BBC, two Smiller trains/carriages have crashed into each other on The Smiler today, no other confirmed details other than the site/area is being evacuated and an Air Ambulance is on site.

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Edit: Alton Towers statement one carriage was empty and the other had 16 passengers on, collision was on a low section of track at slow speed, read into that what you will.

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Trains can be sent round empty for a number of reasons, and empty trains are prone to stalling there

 

Bottom line, if the block system was working correctly the collision wouldn't have happened...

 

Unless it was over-ridden by an engineer etc

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I think it's safe to assume the worst injured are sitting in the front, I don't think it's being insensitive to talk about things.

The guy on Sky News isn't doing them any favours though, reading of wiki and making stuff up (80 people stuck on a ride doesn't sound plausible tbh).

They're now interviewing a guy on Sky who is at the park, he's saying something to the effect that he got stuck on the smiler earlier and the ride team sent another car round while they were stuck, this was about 3 hours before the actual accident.

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