(19-11-2012, 09:40 AM)Jerry1237 Wrote:(16-11-2012, 12:00 AM)mlupton Wrote: Also worth noting this subject is particularly topical this week : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-mer...e-20339630
Isn't it peculiar that the guard gets five years, the family are blaming him (and their culpability under the law), yet their daughter was five times the drink driving limit, breached numerous railway bylaws, was out at 23:30 and just 16! Seems a rather harsh sentence.
Apparently the girl got out of the train mistakenly before her stop when travelling back after party with her friends. I think they also morally have some responsibility as they evidently didn't prevent her leaving at they may have known was not her stop. Mind you they might also have been "worse for wear".
The Metro free paper had a letter this morning from someone who signed themselves "guard" warning of delays as he will in future will not be giving the RA when any member of the public is close to the side of a train.....
PJW