London Banter - View Single Post - Massive Disruption at Paddington

Charles Ellson · April 6th 11, 09:59 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:57:04 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 21:12:39 +0100
"Nick P" wrote:
By the way you tell it you'd be happy to ignore any chance of preventing
this happening again and let any possible guilty parties get away free. In
that case, why bother having police at all?

It doesn't take 15 hours to photograph the road, measure distances and
clear it.

Not if you don't care about preserving evidence or waiting for
appropriate equipment to arrive but I doubt if 15 hours is routine.

Witness statements can be taken after the road is cleared.

Initial witness statements are best taken at the time otherwise you
find out the next day that one of the witnesses is actually a suspect.

I do agree that 15 hours is rather long for a RTA investigation but I'm not
sure that many people were delayed for the airport. The crash happened

Well the airport isn't the only important destination for the M11. Its
the main route from london to cambridge amongst other things.