Child in buggy blown on to London Tube station tracks
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Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
The news says the police want to talk to the woman. Don't know why, unless it is to lecture her about the safe thing to do.
I suspect she knew exactly how dangerous it was. But you're not going to sit back and wait for the 'authorities' to turn up if your baby is on railway tracks.
I suspect she knew exactly how dangerous it was. But you're not going to sit back and wait for the 'authorities' to turn up if your baby is on railway tracks.
kittyP
Pluviophile
"We urgently need to identify the people involved to ensure the child wasn't injured as a result of the fall on to the tracks."The news says the police want to talk to the woman. Don't know why, unless it is to lecture her about the safe thing to do.
I suspect she knew exactly how dangerous it was. But you're not going to sit back and wait for the 'authorities' to turn up if your baby is on railway tracks.
Sounds like tfl might want to blame the woman and not take any responsibility for what happened.
Um, why do TfL need to "take responsibility"? The stupid woman should have left the brakes on.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
It wasn't the woman.
kittyP
Pluviophile
This.
But I'll think you'll find that I didn't say they should take responsibility.
Did you have an alarm go off when a thread about transport started?
Well, whoever.
Really? What does this say then?This.
But I'll think you'll find that I didn't say they should take responsibility.
Did you have an alarm go off when a thread about transport started?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I just read it earlier and had thought "oh, how dreadful for the parents" but didn't really think it was worth saying, but I "watched" the thread anyway cos I was suspicious of why they're trying to trace the family.This.
But I'll think you'll find that I didn't say they should take responsibility.
Did you have an alarm go off when a thread about transport started?
weltweit
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From the images in the article it does seem like the man was the last to handle the buggy and it seems he pointed it at the platform and then went off to help others. Presumably not putting the brake on, but why would you, it was a piece of flat ground. Are we so aware of the wind in the tube? I certainly aren't.
Yossarian
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Because they have a crappy, wind-tunnel death trap about 10 inches wide where a platform is supposed to be, but still charge about four times as much as cities whose underground railways weren't old when Sherlock Holmes was a baby?
kittyP
Pluviophile
No sorry not you honey, I meant Bungle.
kittyP
Pluviophile
I wasn't offering an opinion on whether they should or not.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Ah ok, it was like an alarm though cos it was an alert, that's what I thought you meant
"Death trap"....LOL! Utter nonsense, as was as the rest of your post
Oh, sorry. That's what it read like.
Anyone who uses the Tube regularly knows how much wind you get down there, when you've got what are basically pistons moving down long tight tubes. You get it all the time on the escalators.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
This would never have happened under nationalisation
I never said they were.
But in any case it was utter madness to leave an unsecured pushchair meters away from two sets of live railway tracks.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
It's only utter madness if you're familiar enough with the tube to know about how much wind there is.
weltweit
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I think this particular couple will have learnt that lesson now - the hard way.
And that is despite being very very lucky indeed!
Not really. Anything could have caused that pushchair to start rolling; a knock, anything.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
"We urgently need to identify the people involved to ensure the child wasn't injured as a result of the fall on to the tracks."
So urgent they waited more than a fortnight to release the footage?? Aye, right!
So urgent they waited more than a fortnight to release the footage?? Aye, right!
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