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Accident at Welshpool (16 July 2013)
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merlodlliw
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Give it 6 months for the 'magic' medicine to take effect and he will be cured!
What an awful thing to say. what are your medical qualifications to back up your comment.The man may be terminally ill.
Gareth Marston
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This individuals in his mid 70's.
IanD
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Stranger things have happened. Biggest comeback since Lazarus.
Going back some posts, I do find it very worrying that the requirement to caution the next train through at a UWC was removed for small vehicles
After all, as was proven at Ufton Nervet and earlier this month in New York, even a family car can cause mass death and serious injury to passengers on board a train in the wrong conditions. With technology now, surely it cannot be that hard to fit a small CCTV to the phone connection to allow some images to be picked up either of the LC or user to use to give some reassurance if the user forgets to call back. Or even for identification and subsequent prosecution for misuse. One would hope of course if the vehicle gets stuck, they would call back to warn first but I would guarantee most people would believe making that initial call would protect them until they were across
After all, as was proven at Ufton Nervet and earlier this month in New York, even a family car can cause mass death and serious injury to passengers on board a train in the wrong conditions. With technology now, surely it cannot be that hard to fit a small CCTV to the phone connection to allow some images to be picked up either of the LC or user to use to give some reassurance if the user forgets to call back. Or even for identification and subsequent prosecution for misuse. One would hope of course if the vehicle gets stuck, they would call back to warn first but I would guarantee most people would believe making that initial call would protect them until they were across
And?
I know some very fit and healthy 70 somethings, one who plays table tennis is one of the fittest people I know, and I mean amongst everybody I know!
There is, at least, a requirement to instruct users to cross quickly and call back immediately if there's a problem - for those cases where a call back isn't required. I suppose it's a case of weighing the risk of a user getting stuck and failing to phone immediately against the risk arising from stopping and cautioning for misuse on a much more frequent basis and from impatient users not waiting for permission to cross (they might have to wait much longer if signal protection is to be provided and a call back requested).
I don't know how many times. Care to back up your assertion with some verifiable examples?
IanD
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I think I provided one earlier but here's 2 more:
Ronnie Biggs allegedly on the verge of death lived on for many years. Maybe not a fruitful life but it wasn't a fruitful life before he was banged up.
That Lockerbie bomber Alec Salmond released and sent home to Libya was also supposed to be on the verge of death.
merlodlliw
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The medical evidence would have to be justified for the prosecution to drop the case,some can be given weeks to live, but last for months or vice versa.A Crown Court Judge as to satisfied of the medical condition.
DaleCooper
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While I agree with your general point, as I recall al-Megrahi certainly looked at death's door when he was released and only lived for 3 more years, I suppose prediction is difficult with cancer.
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