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HDT, 11/15:

NTSB Updates 'Most Wanted List' of Safety Improvements

 

Image: NTSB

 

 

The National Transportation Safety Board’s latest “Most Wanted List” of safety improvements contains no big surprises compared to the one issued last year. NTSB also announced it has transitioned to issuing the list every two years; thus this new one is the 2017-18 edition

 

There are two notable changes from the 2016 list. The first is that “Promote the Completion of Rail Safety Initiatives,” which last year chiefly referred to implementing Positive Train Control, does not appear again this year. But the 2017-18 list changed from “promote” to “increase” the NTSB’s stance on the implementation of collision-avoidance technologies. Under that new heading, the board states that “Technologies such as collision warning and autonomous emergency braking in highway vehicles and positive train control in trains will result in fewer accidents, fewer injuries, and fewer lives lost.”

 

Added to this year’s list is “Ensure the Safe Shipment of Hazardous Materials.” NTSB noted that increased volumes of hazardous materials, especially flammable liquids, are moving by rail and that expanded lithium battery use "poses a threat" to airplanes. 

 

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Here is NTSB’s 2017-18 Most Wanted List of transportation safety improvements:

• Eliminate Distractions
• Reduce Fatigue-Related Accidents
• Prevent Loss of Control in Flight in General Aviatio
• Improve Rail Transit Safety Oversight
• End Alcohol and Other Drug Impairment in Transportation
• Increase Implementation of Collision Avoidance Technologies
• Expand Recorder Use to Enhance Safety
• Require Medical Fitness
• Strengthen Occupant Protection
• Ensure the Safe Shipment of Hazardous Materials

 

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NTSB.gov > Safety Advocacy > Most Wanted List:

 

 

2017-2018 Most Wanted List

 

The Most Wanted List represents the NTSB's advocacy priorities. It is designed to increase awareness of, and support for, the most critical changes needed to reduce transportation accidents and save lives.

 

Click on each issue are image below for more information and to download the factsheets

 

Most Wanted List video on the NTSB YouTube Channel
Remarks by Chairman Christopher A. Hart
2017-2018 Most Wanted List brochure

 

 

 

Click here for the "image below."

 

Each image has links to mode specific fact sheets which identify related accidents.  For example, the "Reduce Fatigue-Related Accidents" Rail Fact Sheet identifies these accidents:

 

Novmber 27, 1996

Secaucus, NJ

ATL97FR002

 

June 24, 2012

Goodwell, OK

DCA12MR005

 

December 1, 2013

Bronx, NY

DCA14MR002

 

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NJ.com, 11/15:
 

Safety board renews push for train speed control system absent during Hoboken crash

 

WASHINGTON — When an NJ Transit train last September came into the Hoboken Terminal at more than twice the speed limit, there was no automatic control system to slow it down.

 

Installing positive train control systems again was among the National Transportation Safety Board's 10 most wanted safety improvements, which were announced Monday.

 

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NTSB Safety Compass blog, 3/26/18:

 

 

Most Wanted List Progress Report: Rail Safety

March 26, 2018

By: Chairman Robert L. Sumwalt

 

 The NTSB is releasing a series of blogs highlighting the progress the transportation community is making in each mode to advance issues on our 2017–2018 Most Wanted List. This series sheds light on the progress made and what needs to be done going forward to improve transportation safety. This is the fourth and final blog of the series.

 

 

 

On November 14, 2017, the day before our Most Wanted List (MWL) progress meeting, we concluded our investigation into the April 2016 Amtrak train derailment in Chester, Pennsylvania. As I offer the closing words of this blog series highlighting the progress made  to address issues on our list, the NTSB is presently investigating the December 2017 Amtrak train derailment in DuPont, Washington, and the February 2018 Amtrak train and CSX freight train collision near Cayce, South Carolina. And, on February 15, I testified before the US Congress regarding the urgency for the industry to fully implement positive train control (PTC) by year’s end. That same day, we also issued three urgent safety recommendations to address findings from our investigations into the Cayce accident and the June 2017 Long Island Rail Road accident in Queens Village, New York.

 

At our midpoint meeting, I joined members from our Office of Rail, Pipeline, and Hazardous Materials Investigations to lead a discussion on rail safety. While there has been progress with implementing some of the NTSB’s recommendations, the Chester and DuPont derailments and the Cayce collision tragically illustrate that more needs to be done – and quickly!

 

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