Re: [VIC] Fatality at Reservoir

[james_ccj@my-deja.com]

In article <NTcI4.2242$5D.4919@ozemail.com.au>,
  "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@#DELETE#custard.net.au> wrote:
> "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
Too bad yesterday morning there was another accident happened in Surrey
Hill area...similar incident...and similar result

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Cheers

James


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