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G'day Tony and BW,
Any time that fatalities occur within the transport industry, it is natural for the media to focus on the actions of the crew.
Such media attention can be more traumatic for the relatives of those crew members when those crew members are killed.
Society does like to apportion blame.
All accidents, road, rail, air and sea are tragic.
Nothing is totally perfect and never will be.
But, safety does tend to improve after the results of each accident.
I count myself fortunate to not having been personally involved in any fatal rail accident during my footplate career.
I have witnessed the inquests of a couple of fatal rail accidents, and such is not pleasant.
Steve.
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