SINGAPORE: The collision between two Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) trains that resulted in 28 people being injured was caused by a software problem on one of the trains. The second train was supposed to come to a complete stop 10.7m behind the first train. Staff from SMRT speak to a passenger at the Joo Koon train station where two trains collided in Singapore. AFPBut the software glitch caused the second train, which local media estimated was carrying 517 people, to incorrectly detect the first stalled train as a three-car train instead of a six-car train, thus leading to the collision. A SMRT staff walks past one of the two trains that collided at a train station in Singapore.

Source: New Strait Times November 15, 2017 17:26 UTC