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Re: [VIC] Fatality at Reservoir
- Subject: Re: [VIC] Fatality at Reservoir
- From: "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@#DELETE#custard.net.au>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:37:10 +1000
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- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:38F0877F.2684C9E@ozemail.com.au...
> Daniel Bowen wrote:
> > According to the Age this was at an authorised crossing: no amount of
> > fencing would have helped. It pisses me off mightily that anyone would
place
> > their children in this kind of danger. Parents should know better.
>
> i agree with you Daniel. I think there would be a case to blame The Mess
or
> Hillbilly Trains or whoever IF the supervising parent also got killed.
However,
> the parent didn't get hit, but the kid did. Who is to blame? The Parent
is.
> Some local resident started slagging off at the government about the
safety of
> that crossing. I say, use commonsense when crossing the tracks!
Exactly. Even if the crossing had an automatic pedestrian gate, there is
still (quite rightly) an emergency exit which the child could have got
through easily if unsupervised.
Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
dbowen at custard dot net dot au
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