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Owen · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 229 Location: Diss, Norfolk

I totally agree with you Nebulaman, Any driver involved in an incident must be pretty shaken. Although they are entirely innocent, if I were in the same situation I would feel a strong sense of guilt knowing that I had contributed to the killing of a fellow human being, even if they were a complete idiot and decided to jump the lights. What isn't fair though is if a turnip decides to jump the light, gets hit and then causes the train to crash resulting in serious injury or death.
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Bramleyman · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 481 Location: Norfolk

This morning I took my Partner to Downham Market station to catch the train to Kings Lynn. As hers departed, the up train came in and the Red aspect was showing on the foot crossing, so I stopped as I know best to do. One young man totally ignored the signal and proceeded to cross, so I shouted to him to stop because I could see the train approaching and rather close to the crossing. He said "There's no train coming." and crossed just getting to the other side as the train stopped. Had I been the train driver, I would have sounded the horn and regardless of the passengers waiting on the platform. After this train departed and we got the Green to cross, the young man in question stood waiting for somebody to pick him up, so he never gained anything from the crossing before the train stopped and I still left the station before him. Next time, it just might be the sand train approaching?

After that Incident at Colchester last week, I would have thought he would have had more sense than to cross just because it was slowing down to stop. Had it been the sand train and not a passenger train, he might well not be here now. Even so, the electric units are as we all know, a Silent Killer.

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