On 8 March1996, a Travelling Post Office mail train hauled by a Rail Express SystemsBritish Rail Class 86electric locomotive collided with the rear of a freight train at Rickerscote just south of Stafford. One person, a mail sorter was killed in the crash, and twenty two others including the driver of the mail train were injured. The cause of the collision was the failure of a bearing in the axlebox of one of the tanker wagons of the freight train, which incidentally was carrying industrial acid. It caused the wagon and adjacent ones to derail, immediately into the path of the mail train, which was travelling at 60mph. The driver of the Class 86 had no time to brake and the force of the collision spun the locomotive around and catapulted it up the embankment, coming to rest against the end wall of a house. March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... British Rail TPO vehicle NSA 80390 on display at Doncaster Works open day on 27th July 2003. ... Rail Express Systems livery as carried by Propelling Control Vehicle no. ... Class 86/6, nos. ... East German E 18 electric locomotives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors which draws current from an overhead wire, a third rail, or an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system. ... Map sources for Stafford at grid reference SJ9223 Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire in England. ...
A notable point is that the bearing failure on the tanker wagon was the same as the cause of The Summit Tunnel Fire of 1985 in the Pennines.
Although alcohol is known to increase crash likelihood, its presence is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause a crash.
In 1999, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 30 percent of all traffic deaths occurred in crashes in which at least one driver or nonoccupant had a BAC of.10 percent or more and that any alcohol was present in 38 percent of all fatal crashes in 1999.
Such statistics are sometimes cited as proof that a third to half of all fatal crashes are caused by "drunk driving" and that none of the crashes that involve alcohol would occur if the alcohol were not present.
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