Re: Hornsby Derailment in Sun-Herald

["Daniel Nightingale" <dnightingale@bigpond.nospam.com>]

I thought it is policy never to admit guilt as an employee.

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Daniel

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David Bennetts wrote in message <37925133.0@newshost.pcug.org.au>...
>Yesterday's Sun-Herald carried a story about the recent derailment at
>Hornsby, quoting "Senior State rail sources" had advised that the driver
>concerned had admitted running two red signals before the train derailed.
>The driver was named in the article, along with the suburb where he lived.
>A photograph of the driver, who is on "stress leave", on the other side of
a
>screen door at his residence, accompanied the article.  The train which
left
>Wynyard at 5.44 came off the line at 6.11 pm (I find this hard to believe,
>by my reckoning the 5.44 ex Wynyard should have only reached Gordon at that
>time).  The preliminary accident report shows the train travelling at 34.8
>km/h at the point of derailment.   The train driver, described in the
>headline as a rookie, had only been on the job for five weeks, and it was
>the first time he had been in charge of a train on the northern line.
>
>
>Questions:
>
>Why did the State Rail Sources comment prematurely on an accident which is
>still under investigation?
>Why did the Sun Herald name the driver and his suburb of residence, and
>publish a photo which he obviously didn't want taken?
>
>Regards
>
>David Bennetts
>Canberra
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>