Re: Big train wreck in England!

["David Ready" <ds_ready@usa.net>]

Jennifer Richmond <richmond@melbpc.org.au> wrote in message
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> Kingpin wrote:
> > Just heard on the radio that there has been a major train crash near
Notting
> > Hill.  Many people are injured.
> They seem to have more major rail accidents in England than anywhere
else... is
> it due to the fact that they run more trains than anywhere else, are they
just
> unlucky ore are their safety standards more lax than anywhere else?

Officially there have been 700 incidences of drivers going through red
lights in the last 12 months, "most instances are trivial" it was reported
on the 9pm Tuesday news here on the BBS news in The Netherlands.

This latest crash is simply another driver going through a red light, on the
same track as the Southall crash 2 years ago. The Thames train, crossing 3
tracks went through a red across the path of an oncoming Great Western
Train, (Great Western was the company fined for causing the Southall
crash.... yet another driver going through another red light). The sad thing
is that the Southall enquiry just started a week or so ago and was adjourned
this week.

26 confirmed dead now, and still more to come. I'll never know why the brits
don't have a system like NSW where a train gets derailed if it goes through
a red light or has its brakes automatically applied.

But 700 red light instances a year is a joke in major proportions.

David