Nice to see the media are omitting some facts from this when reporting...
Real XS (formerly Rock Radio) fail to mention that the girl was 3 times over the drink drive limit and on illegal drugs. Since it's news team is split with Real Radio and Smooth Radio I'd say it's a fair guess that those stations are using the exact same reports.
Phil
And? Along with people stating she was 'Mind bendingly drunk'. you do understand that she was not driving a car dont you? And the drink drive limit is so low to deter people from drinking at all before they get in a car and drive. Its a pint of weak beer for gods sake. I can bet many of you have gone out and drank around 5 maybe 7 pints of a good strength ale or lager which would generally put you up to the same sort of levels as she was and yet you see no harm in yourselves doing this!!
And for those who claim she was 'Mind bendingly drunk' - well she managed to leave the train perfectly well and didnt fall over onto the platform iirc and turned round and walked back to the train doors.
As long as Merseyrail can evidence they have provided the training to the employee, it removes the liability of the company for any trained employee making a error such as this case. My company keeps highly documented evidence of training we have undertaken.
And as the report from the post before has pointed out -
The judge reminded McGee that he had been repeatedly trained and instructed in matters of safety and must have known anyone falling between the platform and train was likely to be killed.
So for all those who wanted to 'hang' Merseyrail management are you now going to retract your crass statements given that they have provided evidence that they do constantly retrain their staff? Or, which I think will be more likely, you wont.
The railway is a dangerous place and it is up to us, the staff, first and foremost to keep passengers safe from the dangers it presents, and when we fall down in our duties things like this can happen. We all know people get drunk and may be under the influence of illegal drugs and it does not matter if they are 16 or 61 under the influence of anything we have a position of responsibility and most of us know that.
Others who dont and seem to want to protect their hobby from any sort of comments or judgements of wrongdoings - even though proven in a court of law - should do well to understand that.
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Being a dispatcher for many years myself, I agree there should be a means of cancelling a CD (Close Doors) or RA (Right Away) signal in an emergency - and maybe even a means for platform dispatchers to put the signal itself back to danger from the CD / RA control panel (again only in emergencies).
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do you not make the CD/RA flash then? Sure I remember the WAGN guys doing that at The Cross to stop him from moving off.