Re: [MELB] Frankston line accident Sun 7 May

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

I usually don't poke my head into [VIC] and [MELB] threads but just a short correction, Sunday was
not 8th May but the 7th :-)

8th May is a Monday (today)

"Tony Lammens" <lammens@connexus.net.au> wrote in message 39174DB9.1E0F@connexus.net.au">news:39174DB9.1E0F@connexus.net.au...
> Sometime around 11am yesterday (Sunday 8 May) a man was hit and killed
> by a City-bound train at or near the pedestrian crossing-point on the
> Frankston line near Cricklewood Avenue (between Frankston and Kananook
> stations). According to local residents here, the man was decapitated
> (trains at this point are going full bore). It was not clear if it was
> an suicide or an accident. (Although in my experience having crossed at
> this point maybe a hundred times, it would be hard to be hit on accident
> - while there are no boom gates or such, visibility of the line from the
> crossing is good and trains always sound their horns). A small woodden
> cross and flowers marked the spot this morning when I walked my dog
> past.
>
> This was not in 'The Age' this morning and I have seen no mention of it
> anywhere; maybe these things are so commonplace now ....
>
> Services on the Frankston line were of course affected; buses replaced
> trains between Frankston and Carrum until somewhere around 2pm. Buses
> used in the operation were from Peninsula (Frankston) and Grenda's
> (Dandenong). When I cycled past around 12 noon, State Emergency Service
> crews were preventing cars from crossing the busy intersection of Wells
> Rd- Dandenong Rd- Skye Rd - Overton Road as the boom gates were stuck
> down. A level crossing between Seaford and Carrum was also observed to
> be stuck down around 12.15pm.
>
> Tony.
>
>
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