Stampy
Member
Not a driver, but once witnessed a suicide at Werrington Jct, just North of PBO in 1988...
Was actually coming home on my pushbike, and approached the "crossing" - as there's now a Green Bridge there... - and looking left and right, saw a HST approaching from the South, so I stopped, raised my arm in a "thumb's up" to the driver.
There was a chap in the "island" between the Stamford lines and the Main lines - and I saw him standing there looking at the train, and I assumed he's done the same as me (waiting for the train to pass).
I then heard a horn from the North so looked there to see a train in the distance, and as I looked back to where the HST was - I just heard a THUD....
Turned out he'd waited, and walked out in front of the train...
Left my details with the BTP and they took a statement from me, a few days after dropping me off home..
I still cross that bridge now, going to work.....
Was actually coming home on my pushbike, and approached the "crossing" - as there's now a Green Bridge there... - and looking left and right, saw a HST approaching from the South, so I stopped, raised my arm in a "thumb's up" to the driver.
There was a chap in the "island" between the Stamford lines and the Main lines - and I saw him standing there looking at the train, and I assumed he's done the same as me (waiting for the train to pass).
I then heard a horn from the North so looked there to see a train in the distance, and as I looked back to where the HST was - I just heard a THUD....
Turned out he'd waited, and walked out in front of the train...
Left my details with the BTP and they took a statement from me, a few days after dropping me off home..
I still cross that bridge now, going to work.....