Engineer found dead
Apr. 25th, 2007 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqAw nuts, I was really hoping that he'd somehow survived. =(
"Witnesses say they saw smoke coming from the rear brakes on one of the engines.
There is speculation brake failure was to blame."
Speculation from who? This kind of reporting drives me up the wall. They obviously didn't get the immediate answer they wanted from the railway (we don't give out idle speculation to the press), so they asked one of the witnesses standing nearby. "Well, the brakes were smoking and the train was not stopping, so they must have failed."
I have a strong suspicion about what happened here. I'll be curious to hear the results from the official investigation (they tend to broadcast the investigation results internally when there is a - thankfully rare - fatality involved).
"Witnesses say they saw smoke coming from the rear brakes on one of the engines.
There is speculation brake failure was to blame."
Speculation from who? This kind of reporting drives me up the wall. They obviously didn't get the immediate answer they wanted from the railway (we don't give out idle speculation to the press), so they asked one of the witnesses standing nearby. "Well, the brakes were smoking and the train was not stopping, so they must have failed."
I have a strong suspicion about what happened here. I'll be curious to hear the results from the official investigation (they tend to broadcast the investigation results internally when there is a - thankfully rare - fatality involved).
