Collisions
Definition
Freight sector scorecard
Any collision between trains or rail vehicles on a running line, including a collision:
- With an open door (e.g. container) or other projection (e.g. displaced load on a vehicle). NB: a collision is NOT to be recorded when a train or vehicle strikes a tree or trolley, these are to be separately reported.
- Occurring during a shunting operation. E.g. striking a vehicle left foul, striking a buffer stop or striking another vehicle causing damage.
- Occurring within a possession, including worksites within a possession.
- While the line is blocked, due to a previous accident or emergency.
SMIS sub-event/s
- Train colliding with another train (sub-event guidance)
- Train striking or being struck by animal, object or road vehicle (sub-event guidance)
Key fields
| Object/Form section | Form question |
| Train object | Who was the train operator? |
| What was the train type? | |
| Location section | Which organisation manages the infrastructure? |
| Train striking or being struck by animal, object or road vehicle | What did the train collide or nearly collide with? = Buffer stop or Road vehicle |
Initial event ownership
| Event type | Sub-event | Initial input |
| Collision | Train colliding with another train | Infrastructure manager - unless a collision in a station and no signals are passed at danger, in which case Railway Undertaking. |
| Buffer-stop collisions | Train striking or being struck by animal, object or road vehicle | Railway Undertaking |
| Trains struck by or striking objects (excluding collisions) | Train striking or being struck by animal, object or road vehicle | Infrastructure manager |