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11th April 2011, 20:43
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A passenger killed
A passenger was killed when fire broke out in a toilet of a commuter train.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110411...e-6323e80.html
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#3
12th April 2011, 06:39
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 and static electricity!?
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#4
12th April 2011, 14:19
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Jungle telegraph suggests she set herself on fire in the toilet.
What a way to go.
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#5
13th April 2011, 00:40
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This Has now been declared as a Suicide, so LESS conclusions please?
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#6
15th April 2011, 17:37
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What a nasty way to go.
Without causing offense (I apologise in advance to anyone offended) a bit stupid doing it on a commuter train and a bit thoughtless not considering other passengers safety. But you wouldn't in that state of mind? But whats done is done, I have sympathy with the family.
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15th April 2011, 22:52
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This Lady HAD been suicidal for some time and since killing a child of hers 14 years to the day according to the news on the matter.
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16th April 2011, 11:40
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This act could have injured or killed other people - fire spreads rapidly on a train because of the air rushing in to feed it at high speed.
My sympathies lie firmly with the driver. Fire on a train is one of those nightmare scenarios you really prey will never happen to you. As soon as he saw the flames he would have known that he a duty to save his passengers. An Emergency Evacuation is one of those things that you you do under enormous pressure at great speed....and then all the "experts" examine afterwards at their leisure with a fine tooth comb. And when he approached the toilet he would have smelt that someone had died in there. Absolutely horrendous, because at that stage he would have seen it as his responsibility to have saved her, not knowing it was a suicide. This really is a traumatic experience. There is a very real chance that he won't be able to drive again. It's a sad example of the crazy way this country is going, if you know what I mean. 
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#9
16th April 2011, 11:59
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"This really is a traumatic experience. There is a very real chance that he won't be able to drive again."
His outlook might be different once he realises it was a suicide, mine certainly would be, and has been in the past. I find this 'method' of suicide particularly selfish indeed. Even if it wasn't, a fire in a part of the train which was not his fault and which he obviously can't access or monitor whilst driving really isn't his responsibility; his actions didn't cause this. People die everyday - you just get on with it.
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#10
16th April 2011, 13:28
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I certainly intend to continue in the grade to 66 (for both ambition & financial reasons) so the 'will to carry on' is there. Time will tell, I guess.
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