Dave Arquati wrote:
S.Byers wrote:

'Driver told: Stop helping stab victim'


http://www.thisislondon.com/news/art...ing%20Standard

By Dick Murray, Evening Standard, Transport Editor

16 August 2004

The Tube train driver who tried to help a teenager dying of stab
wounds on a station platform was allegedly ordered by his boss to
stop what he was doing and continue driving.

The driver had taken off his shirt to try to stem the bleeding of
Sayed Abbas, 19, at Hounslow West station - but the young man died
shortly after being taken to the West Middlesex hospital.

He was kneeling beside the injured youth and taking instructions
from the emergency services on a mobile phone when a station
supervisor approached to say he had a message from the line
controller.

The driver's union claimed he was told to "stop what he was doing
and move the train". At that point the paramedics had not arrived.

(snip the rest)

It sounds to me as though the line controller simply didn't know
what was going on, and was concerned that the train had been sitting
in the station for a while and holding up the service. Would the
controller know what was happening on the platform?

Possibly not, but remember that this whole thread is based on a report
by Dick Murray in the Standard. Rumour only, as far as I'm concerned.
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Richard J.
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