Monorail Crash

[Laz]

The monorail will be shut down until an investigation can be done!

I feel sorry for those who are vacationing and chose to stay at a resort on the monorail line for the convience of having the monorail right onsite and now must use the bus system.

My family and I will be staying at the GF the first week of August. I am just grateful we were not on it. My prayers go out to the CM and his family.

 

[Luv2Roam]

Of course thoughts, prayers and condolences go to all involved.

I do wonder if this will end the riding up front.
In the end it will be interesting to see how all this did happen. That is what I think everyone finds so shocking. An electrical fire could be understood. But a fatal crash?! That is very shocking and a complete surprise.
I would think they cannot open the monorail back up until a full investigation by state. Wouldn't this fall under DOT?

Again, my first thought was the poor CM and his/her family.

 

[Inkmahm]

I totally agree. I find the post by Shelly F - Ohio absolutely horrible.

Our prayers go out to the family and friends of the driver

Wow! She didn't say she didn't care about the dead driver, just that she feels bad about people who can't vacation the way they planned to. It isn't necessarily an "either or" kind of comment... why can't she feel bad for both?

Lighten up, people.

 

[Joyce Kingkade]

There is a twitter that was picked up from a resort guest that stated the monorail was experiencing glitches that day. This investigation is just beginning!!

 

[goofy4tink]

There will be no negative posting or name calling on this board...period!!! Someone has died, let's try to keep that in mind. You can disagree with the way someone posts, but there won't be namecalling. I'm sure everyone feels badly that someone died. And I can imagine that there are going to be those who are concerned with the lack of monorail. Can we please temper those 'lack of monorail' concerns with some sensitivity?? I realize that no one wants to seem to be less than concerned with a death...I'm sure some posts just come out the wrong way.

As far as glitches happening on the monorail.....happens every day. I've been on many monorail cars when the driver or attendent CMs have said something about the system acting up..that there have been more issues than normal. Let's not try to second guess. I think someone (the person who tweeted) just wanted to feel more 'in the know'.

 

[phlufster]

My husband is a seasonal monorail driver and he is shocked and saddened by this news. The monorails are designed with an emergency feature that stops them within so many feet of each other, so clearly something went horribly wrong.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the driver.

 

[DisneyBrideToni]

My DH just told me about this. I can't believe they crashed. I feel incredibly sad for the family of the driver and anyone else involved.

As for the PP who discussed the inconvenience of the families staying in a monorail resort, that would be the last thing on my mind if I were staying there. I would rather take a bus than have someone die. So sad.

I also agree with a PP who said they may stop guests from riding in the front. I am happy that there were no guests in the front at the time of the crash.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the driver's family.

 

[mermaidbride1108]

I decided to take a quick break from cleaning and just say the news....

My thoughts and prayer go out to the family. One of the news sites say he was only 21 years old.. So sad!

 

[goin2disneyagain]

Wow! She didn't say she didn't care about the dead driver, just that she feels bad about people who can't vacation the way they planned to. It isn't necessarily an "either or" kind of comment... why can't she feel bad for both?

Lighten up, people.

Seriously. It is an inconvenience to the guests but that doesn't take away from the sorrow for the driver's family. There is nothing wrong with having sympathy for both. Obviously a very sad situation.

 

[chell]

Thoughts and prayers out to all the families and friends involved.

As are mine.

 

[kopitedor]

There will be no negative posting or name calling on this board...period!!! Someone has died, let's try to keep that in mind. You can disagree with the way someone posts, but there won't be namecalling. I'm sure everyone feels badly that someone died. And I can imagine that there are going to be those who are concerned with the lack of monorail. Can we please temper those 'lack of monorail' concerns with some sensitivity?? I realize that no one wants to seem to be less than concerned with a death...I'm sure some posts just come out the wrong way.

As far as glitches happening on the monorail.....happens every day. I've been on many monorail cars when the driver or attendent CMs have said something about the system acting up..that there have been more issues than normal. Let's not try to second guess. I think someone (the person who tweeted) just wanted to feel more 'in the know'.

well said Goofy4tink my thoughts go out to the family, friends and co-workers of the driver who was tragically killed 21 years so sad

 

[Kim&Chris]

This is so sad. Poor kid was only 21 years old. I feel so bad for his family

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the driver who was killed.

Also I was wondering something.

Once the Monorail system does re-open will the news of the crash make anyone think twice about sitting in the front car with the Monorail driver? I can see others no longer wanting to do that because of the shock and etc, however we should also not be scared of sitting in the front and realize the accident was something no one thought would happen.

 

[DebbieB]

There's risk in everything you do. Someone was killed at Disneyland sitting in the front row of Big Thunder Mountain.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My husband is a seasonal monorail driver and he is shocked and saddened by this news. The monorails are designed with an emergency feature that stops them within so many feet of each other, so clearly something went horribly wrong.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the driver.

My first consideration was to the metrorail collision on the red line in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago.

They are citing a sensor failure on the track as the likely problem and marks indicate the train did apply the emergency brake.

Does you husband know if the monorail as similar sensing devices and could it have been that a censor failed?

Clearly the pilot cars had a crush zone, but I'm wondering if the cabs would have crushed if the cars were going slower and perhaps either the pilot did not have time to apply the brake, or the cabs would crumble even at a slow rate of speed.

It would bother me that a computer system does have daily glitches.

It is comical in an office setting using old equipment to download financial imformation as I did in my old job--but nothing life altering would happen if the system decided to be glitchy on any given day and you get used to rolling with those punches.



Also--does your husband happen to know how much WDW will be required to release as part of the investigation. I thought with Reedy Creek that Disney does a lot of self monitoring/self investigating.

At this time, I would presume OSHA would become involved since a death resulted and I am just wondering how much they would have to release publicly without the public just taking Disney's word for it.

For the young man's sake, I would hope that it is a mechanical error and not a human error.

I'm just grateful there were no guests up front at the time.

 

[goofy4tink]

There's risk in everything you do. Someone was killed at Disneyland sitting in the front row of Big Thunder Mountain.

And I have to tell you....I still get nudgy when they put me in one of those first two cars on BTMR!! I get nervous as we descend at that point where that man was killed. I fully realize it isn't going to happen again, but still...my imagination does get carried away.

I really think Disney may make some changes to that whole 'sitting up front' option.

 

[goin2disneyagain]

I really think Disney may make some changes to that whole 'sitting up front' option.

I am wondering about this too. We've always enjoyed sitting up front in the past. We were just there 2 weeks ago and were able to sit up front. Those days may be over now.

 

[ztbz]

It appears from another news report form this afternoon that the Monorails are still on the track, which is on the Epcot Beam, I am not sure if the other two tracks (Magic Kingdom & Resort Rail) are affected, Most Likely they are also down cause of it.

For those that are staying now at the Contemporay, Poly and Grand Flow, more then likely they are running buses right now, but I know that the route to Disney's Hollywood Studios from these MK resorts goes to Epcot after stopping at the Studio, so this can be an option to consider using.

 

[safetymom]

The entire monorail system is down. It most likely will remain down until they know that it is safe to run the monorail.

 

[goin2disneyagain]

Every news report I have seen has said the Monorail is shut down so I think that means the entire WDW Monorail system. They will need to make sure it is safe before they reopen it plus I doubt WDW would want their guests seeing the crash scene that closely. It would be traumatic, especially knowing it resulted in a fatality. OSHA would probably keep it shut down until they are absolutely sure it's safe anyway.