How not to make a presentation on rail safety.

JayMac

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How not to make a presentation on rail safety.

« on: April 21, 2014, 00:31:37 »

From The Independent:

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The moment a US politician nearly gets hit by a train... during press conference on rail safety

As the saying goes, you have to practise what you preach.

That^s certainly the lesson that Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal learnt when he narrowly dodged an oncoming train during a press conference on - you guessed it - rail safety.

This video from the KHON2 news channel shows the moment a speeding train breezed through the platform, almost knocking over an easel demonstrating improvements made to a notoriously dangerous rail line in the city of Milford, Connecticut.

Standing sheepishly with the city^s mayor Ben Blake, the senator showed us all that actions speak loud than words when he said ^safety, as you know, is paramount^ just as the Amtrak train thundered past.

Senator Blumenthal had led calls for a safety overhaul of the stretch of track which has resulted in no fewer than 139 safety violations in the past 10 years.

Mr Blumenthal will be thankful that his brush with near-death ended in nothing more than a moment of hair-raising irony.

That yellow line? It^s there for a reason, senator.

Direct link to youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ircHCzcg3WY

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Re: How not to make a presentation on rail safety.

« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2014, 06:21:11 »

Oops - yet it's so easy for things that run smoothly day to day to go wrong when there's a special event or person around. I chucked when I first saw this - and yet within the last month we've had to remind visiting important people not to stand too close to the edge of the platform on the TransWilts. Just because the visitor missed the train that he had been supposed to arrive on, and came in by car, doesn't mean there's nothing else running. And the danger's not only the visitors who may stand on the opposite side of the platform to the tracks, but also the professionals with cameras who stand back from them to get a good group shot, and take themselves very close to the edge.


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Re: How not to make a presentation on rail safety.

« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2014, 18:21:15 »

Quote from: grahame on April 21, 2014, 06:21:11

Just because the visitor missed the train that he had been supposed to arrive on, and came in by car, doesn't mean there's nothing else running.

As is the case here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvT4spuysbU

And look at this idiot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8Yt-P614w Worthy attempt at a Darwin Award!


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Re: How not to make a presentation on rail safety.

« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2014, 18:32:33 »

Quote from: thetrout on April 21, 2014, 18:21:15

And look at this idiot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8Yt-P614w Worthy attempt at a Darwin Award!

Anyone standing close enough to a passing train to be kicked in the head by the driver is too close. Managed to get this still from the youtube clip:


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