On February 15, 2024, at 4:55 p.m. at the LC “Stare Plavnice”, actively secured (light, sound and halfbumper) on the line marked L203 Križevci – Bjelovar – Kloštar at km 029+865 when train number 787 passed over the mentioned LP, train struck a road motor vehicle with the front left side of a diesel motor train marked 95 78 7121 008-5 in the direction of travel. The train was operating on the route Zagreb – Virovitica.
The driver of the road motor vehicle wasinjured in the accident, and there was major material damage to the road motor vehicle and minor material damage to the diesel motor train.
The causal factor of the subject accident was a combination of events related to the failure of the signaling safety device for the protection of the LC and passing of train number 787 over the railway level crossing which was not secured at that moment, resulting in the train colliding with a road motor vehicle with the front left side of the train in the direction of train movement (chapter 3.2.1).
Contributing factor:
- not determined.
System factors:
- periodicity of maintenance of signal safety devices (chapter 3.1.8 and 4.2.4),
- driving the train at a speed higher than the prescribed speed according to the timetable book (chapter 3.1.7).
The Air, Maritime and Railway Traffic Accidents Investigation Agency, based on the conducted investigation of this accident, in order to increase the safety of the railway system, issues the following safety recommendations to the Agency for Railway Safety:
✓ AIN/06-SR-03/2024
The Railway Undertaking HZPP should update the risk when the train speed prescribed in the electronic timetable book is exceeded by applying all its own procedures and methods, and implement an additional safety measure for risk management in cases when the driver does not comply with the speed prescribed in the timetable book or other document for the section of the track on which the train is moving.
✓ AIN/06-SR-04/2024
The Infrastructure Manager should, in accordance with Minutes No. 1325/24 HŽI, within two years from the issuance of the recommendation, install auto stop device balises on the control signals at the automatic LC’s secured by the type device “Iskra KS” with control signals, in order to prevent the possibility of the train passing by the control signal when it signals that the device for securing the LC is faulty. On devices for securing LC’s of the type “Iskra KS” where it is not possible to install auto stop device balises, it is necessary to install an event recorder within two years of the issued recommendation.