Train crashes in Lake District

[Cessle]

There's some carriages stuck up in the air and some are just lying on their sides


gah, i use vigin trains alot from bristol to leeds and was on a train yesterday from london waterloo to yeovil

Link 1 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6391633.stm)
Link 2 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6391683.stm)

[Gavin]

One of the lads I drink with in the pub was on the train before the one that crashed.

Lucky escape for him.

Mind you, he says that when he got home, the wife was all over him and he had a great weekend.

Gavin.

[Olly]

I bet :)

Thing is, the train was going at 70 mph. The one that killed so many at Potters Bar was going 30 mph.

Looking at it like that, it would seem the increased safety and quality of the train did at least save many more lives.

[bob]

Wel i have hada few drinks so im not sure if this is going to make sence.
The one at Clapham Junction was bad enough. That is not too far away from me

[Jeff]

gah, i use vigin trains alot from bristol to leeds and was on a train yesterday from london waterloo to yeovil

Link 1 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6391633.stm)
Link 2 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6391683.stm)
I go a lot from bristol parkway to wakefield lol.

[cheesey]

I used to use Virgin a lot, don't any more since I moved - but it was good to see so low a casualty count. I mean, it's technology, which is broken by default - and more specifically it's technology that involves very large and heavy chunks of metal moving around very precisely at extremely high speeds.

Bearing in mind that (as you can probably see from the numbers) pretty much every even nearly notable train accident is reported in the national news, I still feel much safer in a train than in a car - in road death statistics, one death just gets lost in the noise.