Re: Train crash near Reading
 

s1|ver, sorry for your news..

But, to put this train accident in perspective (bad though it is),

AFAIK, deaths by rail are in double, not quadruple figures..

Re: Train crash near Reading
 

Car deaths are much higher than rail deaths

Re: Train crash near Reading
 

The mum died as well, They must have been in the same area

Re: Train crash near Reading
 

This is always the problem.

You can have as many safety systems as you want, but if someone wants to do something that they shouldn't - they will do it, no matter how many safe guards, warnings, guards, you put there.

You just can't compete with human nature/stupidity..

Re: Train crash near Reading
 

The Police officer was on the tracks trying to get the driver to move up until the last moment when he got out of the way moments before the train hit.

Thats one brave police officer :tu:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004520756,00.html

Re: Train crash near Reading
 

gawd...

He must have trouble walking most of the time - to do that you'd have to have balls the size of melons.

Very impressive, and brave

Re: Train crash near Reading
 

The BTP deputy chief constable denys this. I would agree more with what he says as there wouldn't have been enough time to even say hello after the barriers were down (and he was at the phone trying to contact the signalman to stop the trains!)

Re: Train crash near Reading
 

Thanks to everyone for their support, to be honest it's hit the Newbury residents the hardest.. even though I crossed the exact point 24 hours earlier on my way home, it still seems a bit surreal that something like that could happen so close to home.
I was praying that everyone would be in work when I got there this morning, as that train is a very popular one for shoppers going into Reading and London.