Re: Beating the Odds (was: 5 Dead in XPT accident)

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

There's been similar blitzes for pedestrians at Glenhuntly. One night last
week I noticed cars weaving between the booms; not sure what was going on, I
wasn't close enough to see if they were being directed.

>From memory the incident with the police car listed below was at Ormond. It
was the pm peak - it waited for a stopping train, then got hit by an
express. I have sympathy because I know the cops were going to an emergency,
but really the driver should have known better.

At another station with a similar layout - it might have been Bentleigh - a
few years ago, some guy with loud music playing from his headphones skipped
through the emergency gates without looking and got cleaned up by a train.


Daniel
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"Paul Nicholson" <pn1@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
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> Heatherdale station (Melbourne suburban network) is a location where
> sometimes four or five trains can pass through without the booms raising.
> I've seen it all in more than 20 years of commuting from Heatherdale.
Mostly
> pedestrians running across rather than wait for the second train to pass
but
> occasionally a car will do the Z shape weave between the booms.
Fortunately,
> I don't think there have been any fatalities. There was a "blitz" one
night
> many years ago and many people were booked. It should be repeated before
> someone gets killed.
> Paul in Melbourne (local resident).

> <james_shugg@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > In Melbourne a few years back a police car with siren/lights operating
> > (responding to an emergency) ducked around the booms as soon as the
> > train had passed, only to be collected by another train coming the
> > other way. The driver of a Peugeot waiting on the other side saw it all
> > happening: he said the policeman floored his Commodore at the last
> > minute but was not quick enough. The poor guy was killed.