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[silverdragon at ezweb.com.au]

Shaun wrote
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> No - and I live in Frankston so I wouldn't have been called to Ballarat
even if I was
> - (well... not unless it was an incredibly big crash!).

Ah Ok. I'm terribly shamed to admit I didn't actually hear where the crash
was exactly, except in Victoria <embarrassed grin>.


 No, I work for a pseudo-
> government body associated with any public safety issues and I'm our
offices
> current 'expert' on train accidents. Basically our brief is to look at any
issue that
> affects public safety and come up with plans to deal with them - as you
might have
> noticed, we've had a bad run on train safety recently - two collisions at
Spencer
> Street, the boy who jumped off a moving train to avoid ticket
inspectors... well,
> train safety is becoming a big deal.

Yeah I've noticed the safety thing hasn't been all that good. Lucky for me I
never travel by train. Or live in Victoria and travel by train anyway
<grin>.



>
> Worst thing about yesterday was I was still dressed for 40 degree
weather - even
> when I got to Ballan where it was about 8 degrees over night! I got there
well after
> all the casualties had been evacuated (and sheesh, they were lucky that
there
> weren't any fatalities). Fact is, I'm not sure why it was sent - it's
pretty clear that
> the main safety recommendation to come out of this accident will be don't
park
> trucks on train lines and I don't think that requires much thought.

It *was* lucky there were no deaths from what I saw on the telly. And how
*stupid* are the two guys who left the ute on the railway line? Wouldn't you
try and move it? Or alert someone in a *hurry*?

Nox