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Title: BBC News South Day - Suicides on the railways (28/1/2016) Post by: BerkshireBugsy on January 28, 2016, 13:38:22 If you have access to BBC South Today there was a short article on how GWR are training their staff to deal with these incidents (and attempted incidents). I heard somewhere that there are more deaths on the UK railways due to suicides than are killed in car accidents.
Some of you who work for GWR may recognise some of the faces in the training course they filmed. Title: Re: BBC News South Day - Suicides on the railways (28/1/2016) Post by: TonyK on January 28, 2016, 14:58:24 Should be available on iPlayer this evening for 24 hours.
Title: Re: BBC News South Day - Suicides on the railways (28/1/2016) Post by: BerkshireBugsy on January 28, 2016, 15:06:02 Should be available on iPlayer this evening for 24 hours. It was on the BBC news segments during breakfast this morning and at lunch so I am guessing it will be on this evening if you don't have access to iPlayer. It was fairly early in the bulletins so was deemed as fairly important Title: Re: BBC News South Day - Suicides on the railways (28/1/2016) Post by: chrisr_75 on January 28, 2016, 15:10:37 I heard somewhere that there are more deaths on the UK railways due to suicides than are killed in car accidents. 1713 fatalities on UK roads in the last full recorded year (2013) and according to rail.co.uk, "...there were still 315 fatalities on the NR network, of which 308 were public (non-passenger) fatalities, four were passenger fatalities and three were workforce fatalities" http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2014/annual-safety-review/ (http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2014/annual-safety-review/) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-road-fatalities (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-road-fatalities) Title: Re: BBC News South Day - Suicides on the railways (28/1/2016) Post by: NickB on January 28, 2016, 15:42:32 If its not too dark a question, how do we have four passenger fatalities? Did these occur as a direct impact (no pun intended) of being a passenger, or did they just die whilst being a passenger?
Title: Re: BBC News South Day - Suicides on the railways (28/1/2016) Post by: chrisr_75 on January 28, 2016, 15:48:52 If its not too dark a question, how do we have four passenger fatalities? Did these occur as a direct impact (no pun intended) of being a passenger, or did they just die whilst being a passenger? Have a read of the article from rail.co.uk, it goes in to some detail Quote The four passenger fatalities on the mainline network, the same as the year before, all took place on the platform-train interface - none of which were during boarding or alighting trains It doesn't mention the exact cause, but I suspect, as it says they were not during boarding or alighting trains, I would imagine they were people falling from platforms then being hit by a passing train or some such similar accident. Details probably available on RAIB site should you care to investigate further. Title: Re: BBC News South Day - Suicides on the railways (28/1/2016) Post by: Timmer on January 28, 2016, 17:40:25 Sky channel 964 for those outside the BBC South Region. Paul Clifton is an excellent transport correspondent. I wish BBC Points West would steal him ;)
Title: Re: BBC News South Day - Suicides on the railways (28/1/2016) Post by: TonyK on January 28, 2016, 17:44:23 Details probably available on RAIB site should you care to investigate further. Not yet - all are still under investigation. No report has yet been published, so far as I can see. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |