[modeleng] Re: SVR rail crash
- From: "Dave Beaman" <davebeaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:28:28 -0000
As a working member on the SVR for nearly 30 years, I know the full story
and all the bits that go with it. The railway was never going to be blamed
and took the unusual step at the time of saying so. I sometimes wonder about
the mentality of car/ van drivers, who in their right mind, would take on
150tons of scrap metal thats moving at 20mph, (line speed at the crossing).
It happens too frequently on the big railway as we have seen of late in the
press all down to gross stupidity and no thought for others.
I'll climb off my soapbox now, sorry for the rant guys but it really winds
me up.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: SVR rail crash
Too bad, the accident, but I'm glad that the
locomotive driver was not found to be at fault==seems
that this happens all too often when there is a
disagreement between a locomotive and a motor vehicle.
Al
--- alanjstepney <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I know it isnt models, but it is steam...
>
> Some time ago there was a crash on the Severn Valley
> Railway.
> (For those not in the UK, this is one of our biggest
> preserved steam
> railways.)
> A train collided with a van on a level crossing.
>
> The result of the enquiry has just been released,
> which is that the van
> driver was wholly to blame for the crash and the
> everything on the railway
> was found to be OK.
>
> alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> www.alanstepney.info
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