Re: Hornsby Derailment in Sun-Herald

["John" <johnst@aics.net.au>]

Daniel Nightingale <dnightingale@bigpond.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I thought it is policy never to admit guilt as an employee.
>
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>
> Daniel
>
> (Remove nospam for a reply)
> 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
> >


I think that was just paper talk, interpreting what he had said to State
Rail.