[PRCo] Bradford Avenue runaway (1944)

[Fred Schneider]

By first reaction was … if you cannot stop the sucker with air brakes and sand, did you consider releasing the air and reapplying?   It's an MU car so you cannot stop it by regenerating but you could pull the reverse key and apply power which might help break the slide.

Then I think I found the clue in the last paragraph.   The poor gal had two weeks experience.   You can teach it all but what you tried to hammer into those people in 40 hours of instruction … which includes how to run a car, how to read a timetable, how to read a watch, how to make change, understanding transfer rules for your carbarn, etc.

Running a trolley is going to be no different from learning to drive a car.   The accident curve will be worse in the earliest years, then it improves, and then as your faculties (eyesight, reflexes, hearing) worsen with age, the chance of accidents increase again.  And that lady probably carried the thoughts of that with her all her life.

And to have her husband lying in a hospital in France at the same time.  Terrible.





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