01-15-2019, 10:32 AM
Wasn't quite sure where this should go, it's not about the Ottawa LRT, but road investigations in general.
https://www.ottawamatters.com/local-news...no-1196247
The TSB has offered to help with the investigation, they do not have authority to do so, but they can offer. The general manager of Ottawa transportation services argued they shouldn't:
"Quite frankly I think that leads to we don't have confidence in the Ottawa Police Service and nothing could be further from the truth," Manconi said. "Those accident investigators are leading experts. They do hundreds if not thousands of accidents investigations in Ottawa, they're professionals."
This statement suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of police and collision investigators (which is no surprise coming from someone referring to it as an accident). The job of police is to determine if a law has been broken, and sometimes not even that. At this point, they're basically operating as glorified insurance adjusters for most collisions. In this case, they'll probably be more thorough than that, but they're still looking at the laws as is.
The job of a collision investigator is to figure out what circumstances lead up to the collision and if there are meaningful changes to our system (where system is the whole world) that can be made to prevent or mitigate the disaster in the future.
Most people completely fail to understand this second one, they only want to know "whose fault it was", they don't care about preventing it so long as it can be blamed on someone (and insurance companies of course only care about fault, which is why I say police basically act as insurance adjusters). I expect this from average people, but extremely disappointing coming from transportation staff.
https://www.ottawamatters.com/local-news...no-1196247
The TSB has offered to help with the investigation, they do not have authority to do so, but they can offer. The general manager of Ottawa transportation services argued they shouldn't:
"Quite frankly I think that leads to we don't have confidence in the Ottawa Police Service and nothing could be further from the truth," Manconi said. "Those accident investigators are leading experts. They do hundreds if not thousands of accidents investigations in Ottawa, they're professionals."
This statement suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of police and collision investigators (which is no surprise coming from someone referring to it as an accident). The job of police is to determine if a law has been broken, and sometimes not even that. At this point, they're basically operating as glorified insurance adjusters for most collisions. In this case, they'll probably be more thorough than that, but they're still looking at the laws as is.
The job of a collision investigator is to figure out what circumstances lead up to the collision and if there are meaningful changes to our system (where system is the whole world) that can be made to prevent or mitigate the disaster in the future.
Most people completely fail to understand this second one, they only want to know "whose fault it was", they don't care about preventing it so long as it can be blamed on someone (and insurance companies of course only care about fault, which is why I say police basically act as insurance adjusters). I expect this from average people, but extremely disappointing coming from transportation staff.