Poor guy fell between the platform and the train and his arm was run over.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14709350
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14709350
How did the train run him over if he slipped down when attempting to board?
Incidents like this happen and very soon you get people jumping to the conclusion that it's either the railways fault or the persons fault, when in reality we haven't got a clue either way. It's pretty disrespectful to those involved to be accusing them of things without knowing the facts.
How did the train run him over if he slipped down when attempting to board? Who would give the driver the RA in a situation like this?
The doors have to close
The conductor has to give the buzz-buzz
The platform despatch have to give the white light
The signal has to be green
The driver has to move
That's a lot of safety-nets this poor individual has gone through!
Speculation like this isn't really something to be wanted in my opinion. If you want to know more on the matter why don't you contact the ToC and request further information under the FoI act?
How did the train run him over if he slipped down when attempting to board? Who would give the driver the RA in a situation like this?
The doors have to close
The conductor has to give the buzz-buzz
The platform despatch have to give the white light
If you want to know more on the matter why don't you contact the ToC and request further information under the FoI act?
That would be utterly fruitless; as any fule kno, the FOI Act applies only to public bodies, or wholly-public owned subsidiaries.
If I had a penny...
There seem to be a few judges on here who would hang people before they had finished the oath!! Lets wait for the official report before fingers are pointed please.
Ey? I can't see a single post in this thread attributing blame to anyone. In fact, it's usually the case that the "don't blame anyone, particularly not the staff" posts show up well before and in much greater numbers than any posts that suggest responsibility.
Scotrail84's post may have been as much about accusing the victim of being responsible as the railway or its members of staff.
Nobody has dared to suggest either as far as I can see, but I just see the post as a warning nott o apportion blame to anyone without knowing the facts, and to await the investigation and report, as others have suggested.
Nobody has dared to suggest either as far as I can see, but I just see the post as a warning not to apportion blame to anyone without knowing the facts, and to await the investigation and report, as others have suggested.
You assume that he was attempting to board whilst the train doors were open. What's to say that he didn't attempt to do so after the RA had been given? He could have run up to the door and pressed the button as the train was accelerating away (I've seen people do it) slipped and fell. You just don't know from the media report.
I will await the report into this incident with interest.
I agree, and I don't really see how my earlier post could be read as accusing the staff of cack-handedness... I was just highlighting at how unusual this circumstance was considering the many safety nets there are to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
I agree, and I don't really see how my earlier post could be read as accusing the staff of cack-handedness... I was just highlighting at how unusual this circumstance was considering the many safety nets there are to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
What did I say about lets not speculate?
Someone will be along soon to blame it on the Tories.
To show the standard of the reporting here is a quote from the BBC website:
"He took the train back to Buckie after missing his bus home." :roll:
Having read National Rail for Perth station it is shown as only having part time ticket office, so at time of accident platforms would be unmanned.
Looks a large station to be unstaff so any enquiry should be looking into this & calling for the restaffing of station platforms.