A tram firm has been fined £240,000 after a pedestrian was killed at a crossing.
Bus driver Carlos Correa Palacio, 53, died after he was struck by a tram as he walked throughout the Saughton Mains crossing in Edinburgh on 11 September 2018.
Edinburgh Trams Limited admitted a breach of well being and security laws throughout a listening to at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and was fined £240,000, the Crown Office stated.
While the tram driver first noticed Mr Correa 73 metres from the crossing, he was unaware the crossing was there.
Once he was 53 metres away the motive force sounded his bell and commenced to sluggish the tram.
Over the following 27 metres he sounded the bell three extra occasions.
Approximately 18 metres from the crossing the motive force utilized the emergency brake which additionally set off the tram warning horn.
Mr Correa was killed, nevertheless.
Near miss in 2016
Prosecutors stated there had been no evaluation of a foreseeable threat to pedestrians on the Saughton Mains crossing from an approaching tram previous to the incident, regardless of a close to miss in November 2016.
Edinburgh Trams Limited failed to hold out a ample threat evaluation of the structure of the crossing, and to make sure it supplied ample discover and warning to pedestrians, the court docket heard.
The firm additionally did not assess the loudness of audible warning gadgets, or the emergency braking distances of trams approaching the crossing.
The investigation discovered there have been no points with the motive force and he had responded to the state of affairs in accordance along with his coaching.
The tram was in working order and the braking system purposeful.
Debbie Carroll, a well being and security investigator with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, stated Mr Correa misplaced his life in “circumstances which could have been avoided”.
She added that Edinburgh Tram Limited’s “failure to assess risks to pedestrians using the crossing resulted in Mr Correa’s death”.
The Correa household stated the lack of their liked one had been “agonising” and was “worsened by the nearly five years we had to wait for justice”.
They added: “We welcome the fact that Edinburgh Trams has accepted responsibility.”
A spokesman for Edinburgh Trams stated: “We have nothing further to add beyond what was said on our behalf at Court today and want to express again our deepest sympathies to the family of Mr Correa.”
Source: information.sky.com”