View Full Version : My train hit someone on the way home.
Got on my usual 5:46 train from Worcester to Hereford, I drifted off soon I sat down and woke up 15 mins later in the middle of nowhere and heard an announcement that someone was hit by our train???? :shocked:
Then i saw a few paramedics walking past my window, and then some policemen too, looked up and they were all there on the tracks.
The "accident" happened around the center of this photo where the track is., about 200 yards south is Great Malvern Station and it was about to stop so it wasn't going that fast as it just left Malvern Link.
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Looking out of my window, the police looking at some family photos.
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Took this when it was raining outside, just about see the policeman and some network rail people, the injuried lied about 5 meters further up.
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I couldn't get any better shots as the window outside where the scene was had LOADS of people and it would be weird for me to force my way in the middle and take a photo.
Mondo, I laughed at your FB status update.
I am seriously going to hell
That's awful. Hope the person that got hit is ok.
Mondo, I laughed at your FB status update.
I am seriously going to hell
What does it say?
I am seriously going to hell
I'll see you there.
I've been delayed a couple of times because of this sort of thing. Last time it was on the Uppsala - Arlanda Airport line in Sweden and I ended up missing a flight because of it. It was only after I'd stopped fuming about having to spend another night in Sweden that I thought about how desperate (and cowardly) someone must be to do something like that.
What does it say?
Raymond Lin
is not amused, would people commit suicide in their own home please and not infront of my train?
At least the guy is ok :) And at least Mondo has a sense of humour ;)
TinkerBell
29-07-2008, 21:23
Eeeeeeek! I hope the person is okay :( No one should have to die like that.
Don't think I would like to have been in your situation Mondo.
Good god I had no idea Mondo was Raymondo!! HAHAA!!! I saw your update and thought blimey, you must have been on the same train as the other guy on BD....the penny dropped with a loud 'THUNK!'
/slaps Pebs with a big wet fish
TinkerBell
29-07-2008, 21:29
LOL Pebs I did the same ;D heheheh!
/slaps Pebs with a big wet wang
:shocked:
Admiral Huddy
30-07-2008, 08:17
This is getting all too common now. The section between Ilford and Brentwood seem to attract them.. And Old Harlow (Harlow Mill).. These are really fast sections - no chance of the driver stopping. So much so, the have Samaritan signs by the track.
I had a friend who use to work as a guard and it was part of his job to check if the jumper was dead or alive :/ he now works in an office/control hub thingy so doesn't have to look at that sort of stuff anymore.
This is getting all too common now. The section between Ilford and Brentwood seem to attract them.. And Old Harlow (Harlow Mill).. These are really fast sections - no chance of the driver stopping. So much so, the have Samaritan signs by the track.
Dont I know it :(
This happened to Paul a few weeks ago. He was traveling back home when someone committed suicide by jumping in front of the train he was on.
This is getting all too common now. The section between Ilford and Brentwood seem to attract them.. And Old Harlow (Harlow Mill).. These are really fast sections - no chance of the driver stopping. So much so, the have Samaritan signs by the track.
Yep the buggers seem to pop off at least once a month. Infact I think that more of the phantom delays on our line is caused by this. Isn't another spot around Ingatestone with the level crossing?
Witham seems to be getting "popular" too.
If it was a suicide attempt then I feel really really sorry for the driver. Seriously selfish of the person who got hit.
If it was an accident (and I fail to see a way it could be) then I feel sorry for the victim too.
I can't see how it could be an accident, it wasn't anywhere near the station platform, not like his laptop fell into the track and he went and get it. It was about 300 yards from the next station and it is hedges either side and no level crossing.
I think what saved him is that that stretch of the track is very straight between the 2 station, you can see right down it, and because it is between 2 stations within the same town, it wasn't going that particularly fast and was able to stop to a point where there was no fatality.
Then you got to ask the question, if the kid was playing, and the train was clearly seen miles away, and slowing down, why didn't he get away in time?
If he tried to commit suicide, that's the wrong place to do it, there are 3 bridges further down that he could've jumped off from suddenly.
I am putting it down to some kid playing chicken but lost.
Someone tried this at Chelmsford in front of the train I was about to get on. Because the train was already stopping the driver managed to slam on the anchors but it still resulted in passengers on the platform in hysterics. This is one rare case where having poor eyesight helps - I didn't see anything but the train and I don't know the outcome. The front of the train looked clean though so I suspect that's a good sign.
Do we now who it was and what they where doing yet, local newspaper got anything?
Greenlizard0
30-07-2008, 20:16
...So much so, the have Samaritan signs by the track...
Should add my own about the consideration of their suicide plan vs the warmth of my tea. Grr...
This train is delayed due to the wrong type of suicide.
Does that make me evil too?
This train is delayed due to the wrong type of suicide.
Does that make me evil too?
No.
That makes you funneh!
This train is delayed due to the wrong type of suicide.
Does that make me evil too?
I laughed, I'll join you on the train down :D
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