London Banter - View Single Post - Massive Disruption at Paddington

Charles Ellson · April 6th 11, 09:44 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:52:42 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:52:45 +0100
Charles Ellson wrote:
main rail line for hours but in this country it just needs one jobsworth
plod and thats it for the day. In spain last year I drove past 2 trucks that
had collided head on. In this country plod would have closed the entire
stretch of road for a day - in spain the police were just waving drivers
past as they got on with their job.

Maybe the police knew enough of the facts (unlike yourself) to know
that no evidence external to the vehicles had to be gathered ?

What , you think a truck head on over here would have the police leave
a single carraigeway road open with traffic on it? Dream on. It would be
closed for a day minimum.

Only one of the several accidents I have assisted at have involved a
road closure and it was not the one involving two fatalities; there is
no practical reason to stop traffic which is not interfering with the
proceedings and which can be safely guided past.