Re: [Melb] Footscray crash - 3 injured

["Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

"tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au> wrote in message
news:3b1c4ceb_5@news01.one.net.au...
> "Daniel Bowen" <dfbowen@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
>
> > AAP
> > Tuesday 5 June 2001, 09:50 AM
> >
> > Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS) spokesman Peter Swan said the
> > driver and the two other people were taken to Western Hospital.
> >
> > "It could have been a lot worse," Mr Swan told radio 3AW.
> >
> > "Looking at the trains in the station - a number of carriages
> > derailed, significant intrusion into the drivers' cabin of the train -
> > so certainly (there was) potential for a lot more injury.
> >
> > "We're just thankful we only dealt with the three patients."
> >
>
> Melbourne journalists have been reading too many British newspapers again -
> It never seems to strike them that the design of the vehicles might have
> something to do with the lack of injuries!

Same as people who complain "I ran my car up the back of a truck and it just
crumpled... how safe is that?", without realising that that's what takes all
the energy of the impact.

Besides, it sounds like the ambos who are making the comment about the
injuries.

Al