Fatalities at Hayes & Harlington - merged topic

[whole diary]

[James Vertigan]

Yet another person hit by a train at H&H tonight - nothing able to leave PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) at the moment according to Network Rail.

[Chris from Nailsea]

From the Uxbridge Gazette:

Two fatalities at Hayes and West Drayton rail stations

Two people have been killed by speeding trains, in separate incidents at West Drayton and Hayes and Harlington station.

On Friday (28), a man, believed to be 41-years-old and from Uxbridge, was struck close to West Drayton station at around 10am. He has yet to be named, but his family have been informed.

And yesterday evening (30) at about 9.50pm, another man was pronounced dead after colliding with a train at Hayes and Harlington station.

Enquiries are ongoing to establish his identity.

The British Transport Police say they are treating both deaths as 'non-suspicious'.

[bobm]

Makes me really angry.....  do they know the trains were "speeding"?   

[TerminalJunkie]

You should check the definition of 'speeding' in a dictionary. 'Exceeding the speed limit' isn't the only definition, y'know...

[EBrown]

You should check the definition of 'speeding' in a dictionary. 'Exceeding the speed limit' isn't the only definition, y'know...

No, it isn't...

Dispatching, finishing; deadly, fatal

Oh... you mean:

Leading with speed; rapid, direct.

Moving with speed.

Of course, taken from the OED^▸ (Oxford English Dictionary).

[Chris from Nailsea]

From the Uxbridge Gazette:

'Rail station tragedies are getting out of hand'

The fourth person in as many months died on the track at Hayes and Harlington station on Sunday.

Now the areas MP^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) has called for action to prevent other people dying on the railway.

"It is becoming a dreadful tragedy which is getting out of hand," said John McDonnell, member for Hayes and Harlington. "We need to get everyone around a table and examine all the possible measures we can take to stop this from happening, because it has got to a point where we cant just stand back."

The latest victim, who has yet to be identified, was pronounced dead after being struck by a train at about 9.50pm on Sunday. As the Gazette went to press, enquiries were continuing in an effort to inform his family.

It was one of two railway line deaths within days. Police were called to West Drayton station at about 10am on Friday last week following reports of a man struck by a train.

The latest deaths follow that of 26-year-old Keith Coutinho, who died after being hit by a westbound train on the morning of September 11. Slough man Enzo Belluccia, 35, died in similar circumstances on July 20, and 20-year-old Antonio Martinez from Uxbridge died during the evening rush hour on June 26.

Mr McDonnell wants the police, Hillingdon Council and train service providers Network Rail and First Great Western to work together to try to prevent more deaths.

Police say they are not treating the incidents as suspicious.

Inquests, which could help explain the deaths, are due to be held for the men who died.

** Two men killed by speeding trains in separate incidents last week have been named.

Jason Biggs, 41 and from Cowley, was hit by a train at West Drayton station last Friday (September 28), at around 10am.

On Sunday evening (30) just before 10pm, a man was killed on the tracks at Hayes and Harlington station, and he has been named as 56-year-old Nigel Fisher, from Hayes.

Both of the inquests were opened and adjourned today (Wednesday) at West London Coroner's Court.

The incidents are not linked.