THE RAILWAYS (SAFETY MANAGEMENT) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2006

Indicators relating to accidents

1.  Total and relative, to vehicle kilometres, number of—

(a) accidents and a break–down of the following types of accidents—

(i) collisions of vehicles, including collisions with obstacles within the loading gauge;

(ii) derailments of vehicles;

(iii) level crossing accidents which shall include accidents involving persons at level crossings;

(iv) accidents to persons caused by vehicles in motion except for suicides;

(v) suicides;

(vi) fires in vehicles; and

(vii) any other type of accidents, and each such accident shall be reported under the heading of the primary accident even where the consequences of any secondary accident are more severe such as where a fire follows a derailment.

(b) persons seriously injured or killed by type of accident divided into the following categories—

(i) passengers;

(ii) persons carrying out work or voluntary work directly in relation to the operation;

(iii) level crossing users;

(iv) unauthorised persons on premises of any railway; and

(v) any other types of person, and the number of passengers seriously injured or killed shall also be indicated in relation to the total number of passenger kilometres.

(2) The provisions of Regulation 91/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council of 16^th December 2002 on rail transport statistics (1) shall be applied to any information provided under this paragraph.

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O.J. No. L14 of 21.1.03, p1