Drivers running red lights at fault for Luas accidents: RPA

MOTORISTS driving through red lights have been blamed for a series of accidents involving Luas trams in Dublin.

Rail Procurement Agency (RPA) chief Frank Allen said he believed a pattern was emerging of drivers ignoring traffic lights, especially at busy intersections on the Tallaght line between Heuston and Connolly stations.

RPA executives appeared before an Oireachtas committee yesterday following four collisions between cars and trams in the past fortnight on the Connolly-Tallaght line. Mr Allen told the Joint Committee on Transport that cars going through red lights were responsible for seven of the 10 accidents to date on the Sandyford and Tallaght lines.