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Re: Train Articles

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Train Articles
From: alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 18:56:10 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Insert smart-ass comment about messy deks here
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On Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:17:02 GMT, G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff
Lambert) wrote:

>ABC radio carried an interview on Thursday morning with an English
>"eyewitness", who described in graphic and apparently believable
>detail, how he was right there when it happened and saw the  car
>plunge through the bridge railings and land on the track.  Then a
>little while later, the train suddenly appeared and he could see there
>was going to be a terrible accident.  He said he couldn't bear to look
>at the actual collision.
>
>Was he making this up?  How can we believe anything?

Don't be too hard on him.  Assuming he was an eyewitness to the
collision he would be so traumatised and overwhelmed by what he saw
that he is bound to get parts of the events leading to the collision
wrong.

Albert Alcoceba
alberta@zip.com.au
http://www.zip.com.au/~alberta

References:
- Train Articles
  - From: "Tom Zsolt" <Tom.zsolt@deetya.gov.au>
- Re: Train Articles
  - From: dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage)
- Re: Train Articles
  - From: daproc@bigfoot.com
- Re: Train Articles
  - From: "Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au>
- Re: Train Articles
  - From: steam4me@enternet.com.au (Yuri J Sos/Melbourne AUS)
- Re: Train Articles
  - From: billbolton.REMOVE-To-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)

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