PETALING JAYA: Critical SOPs were ignored when one of the trains involved in the LRT collision last month malfunctioned, transport minister Wee Ka Siong said.
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He said the train driver, or hostler, of train 40 (TR40) without passengers, encountered communication difficulties with the Operation Control Centre (OCC) that inadvertently led to the crash.
The hostler was employed to drive the train manually after it malfunctioned on May 24 while it was in the tunnel between the Kampung Baru and KLCC stations.
“The hostler did not report the track section number to the OCC. This should be reported periodically to the OCC,” Wee told a press conference today on the findings of the investigation committee into the crash.
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Meanwhile, the other LRT train carrying 213 passengers, TR 81, received inaccurate information that TR40 had departed.
The investigation committee chairman Isham Ishak said checks found Prasarana’s maintenance of its trains to be in order. “All of their trains are well-kept and well-maintained,” he said.
Wee also said the ministry will see to it that the company’s top management takes immediate action on the investigation committee report’s 23 recommendations, which he had tabled to the Cabinet yesterday.-FMT