Mad Mummy-Level crossing.

[Major Starbold]

What a twack.

I have seen the results of a train and a body colliding, bitz everywhere, not nice for the poor bugguz tidying up.

The moment mother pushing pram 'dices with death' at railway crossing | Mail Online

3:46 PM on 14th October 2009

This is the moment a mother recklessly pushes a pram over a railway crossing in front of a moving train.

The impatient mother ignored a red warning light at the level crossing, and began to cross the uneven tracks, while other pedestrians waited patiently for the train to pass.

[Earl]

To be fair, it didn't look like much of a near miss to me. The train was miles away.

But if that crossing is so dangerous why is it even there?

[mimseycal]

If they are indeed uneven tracks, why hasn't railtrack sorted it?

[Ck]

Silly woman, it's one thing crossing it in a rush on your own but pushing a pram is something else. Granted it wasn't as though it only just missed her but the crossing lights come on to give time for any eventualities, including things like getting pram wheels or heels of shoes stuck whilst your crossing - she'd have shat it if that'd have happened.

[Major Starbold]

Trains cross those crossings at 60/70 miles per hour so they can be on top of you before you know it.

In the interests of safety why can they not be forced to slow down by law on crossings.

[mimseycal]

And watch people complain about the late arrivals?

[mimseycal]

When all's said, it is a bit of a non-story though isn't it? I mean, nothing happened .. she crossed safely - else the story would have been totally different.

Must have been a slow news day - well certainly for the type of emotive storm-in-a-teacup stories so beloved of tabloids

[sixaparrat]

If they are indeed uneven tracks, why hasn't railtrack sorted it?

that's not the sort of response that I'd expect from you Mims.

The track looks perfectly normal to me, with the camber making the trains lean slighly away from each other.

Trains cross those crossings at 60/70 miles per hour so they can be on top of you before you know it.

In the interests of safety why can they not be forced to slow down by law on crossings.

This particular train was just leaving the station, I doubt if it was doing anything near that speed.

It is not about trains going too fast, it is about uneducated people. Not uneducated 'cos they are thick, but because they have never been taught that they should be responsible for their own safety/actions...with them it is ALWAYS someone else's fault.

[kham]

i agree with ck here.. ok so what if the thick(and there's no other word for it) ejit wants to jump across the crossing herself.. but to risk a baby that's in a pram,when the wheels could easily have got stuck.. well..she's just a selfish cow... like the mccanns.. "oh it's only me and my life that counts..fuck the kids".. fuking sick twisted bitch.. i'd shoot her if it were legal

and breathe

[Ck]