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A rear-end collision, often called rear-ending or, in the UK, a shunt, occurs when a forward-moving vehicle crashes into the back of another vehicle (often stationary) in front of it. Similarly, rear-end rail collisions occur when a train runs into the end of a preceding train on the same track. [1]
The second train was incorrectly signalled into the section, resulting in a rear-end collision. It was later determined by the inquiry that neither of the drivers were to blame; it was the signalman at Balby signal box (J W McKone) who had accepted the second express into the section before clearing the first stationary train, [ 5 ] even though ...
It was remarked on how despite the developments in locomotives, and illumination technology including railway signals, the oil tail lamp had changed little in a century and that it was time to move on to an electric tail lamp, given the fact the tail lamp was the last line of defence against a rear end collision. [1]
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Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types: Lane departure crashes, which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object. These include head-on collisions and roadway departure collisions. Collisions at junctions, including rear-end collision and angle or side impacts
On 30 January 1958, a passenger train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at Dagenham station, Essex. Ten people died and 89 were injured. On 16 February 1958, a passenger train is in a rear-end collision with a light engine at Ince Moss Junction, Lancashire due to errors by a signalman and the driver of the light ...
Thirsk rail crash (1892): Rear-end collision, mistake by signalman after no sleep due to daughter taken ill and dying. Stated he was unfit to work, and why, but told he must; convicted of manslaughter but given absolute discharge .
A major issue in whiplash prevention is the lack of proper adjustment of the seat safety system by both drivers and passengers. Studies have shown that a well designed and adjusted head restraint could prevent potentially injurious head-neck kinematics in rear-end collisions by limiting the differential movement of the head and torso.