Level Crossing Occurrence Sample Clauses

Level Crossing Occurrence. Any collision of a train or rolling stock with either a road vehicle, person, level crossing safety equipment or gate, or any other occurrence that compromises safety, at a level crossing. Includes: • Cases of road vehicles causing damage to gates, barriers or other equipment at level crossings; • Near miss incidents; • Any case of a train running onto a level crossing when not authorised to do so is reportable; • Any failure of equipment at a level crossing which could endanger users of the road or path crossing the railway. This includes ‘wrong-side’ failures of equipment (where equipment fails to a dangerous condition) whether or not any train or crossing user is involved at the time of failure; • Incidents which occur during periods of unusual operation are to be included, eg when an automatic crossing is operated manually. • Level crossing occurrences with Tramways where Trams operate over their exclusive right of way. Excludes: • Exclude suspected and attempted suicides from the count of level crossing fatalities and persons injured in level crossing occurrences. These are recorded as “suspected suicide”. • Excludes infrastructure irregularities such as broken rails, welds and bonds that result in the unnecessary operation of crossing protection equipment. (These are reported in infrastructure irregularities). • Roadways crossing tramways where tramways operate on roadways shared with road vehicles.