Died after togulykke: – Likely that the use of smartphone and sound on the ear took … – NRK

the Accident happened on the Fauske train station in march of this year when the man crossed the tracks to get on the platform to the southbound train.

the Man was hit when the train was on the way to the station.

the Police interrogated after several witnesses and lokføreren, and everything indicated that the deceased did not saw the train before he was hit.

– He had mobile phone in hand and earbuds in their ears when the accident happened. He had a focus on mobile, said etterforskningsleder Rune Berg at Fauske sheriff’s office to NRK.

– Took away the focus from the environment

It is also the conclusion of the Accident investigation board delivered its report today.

As the train was at the personovergangen, continued the person out the front of the train and was run over and killed. The aibn believes it is likely that the use of smartphone and sound on the ear took away the focus from the environment so that he or she not detected the train, it says in the report.

Could not intervene

the Aibn believes that it was impossible for togekspeditøren to prevent the accident.

– As the Aibn sees it, was not possible in the given situation, and it is also not something the traveler can rely on.

the Accident investigation board norway promotes two safety recommendations to the Norwegian national rail administration after the accident.

The first target track where the arrival of a train passing over a personovergang, and the other focuses on the requirements for hedging of the personoverganger on drives, seen in the context of an increasing use of sound on the ear and smartphones.

Three times higher risk

That many of us today have the attention against your phone when we are out walking, have led to several accidents. 85.000 norwegians have had an accident or a dangerous situation when they have used the headphones in traffic, according to an estimate from the If.

And several foreign studies show the same. Among other things, shows a study published in the american journal Injury Prevention in 2012 that pedestrians who are listening to music are three times as high a risk of getting hit. The survey dealt with rear end collisions in the period between 2004 to 2011. Two of the three påkjørte pedestrians were men under the age of 30. Only one out of ten were minors under 18 years of age.

In addition shows a ulykkesgjennomgang the institute of transport has made that distraction was a major contributing factor to several accidents with cyclists and car type osloby.no.