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Teenager dies 'playing' on hi-speed track out of Paddington
CJB wrote:
Four other youths who were with him managed to get out of the way of the train which travels up to 100mph. The victim's relatives have yet to be told. The incident closed the line for about two hours and some passengers had to be bussed home - [according to the BBC web site. Actually it was more likely 400 from Paddington alone, and it took FGW/FGWL two and half hours to arrange one bus and one coach for those stranded to Reading and Oxford]. How do you know it was 400? Did you count them? That's almost 'closing' time for Paddinton (in terms of major services) therefore I'm not entirely surprised it took awhile to arrange alternate transport. A British Transport Police spokesman said the four youths [who survived] will be questioned on Thursday but they are not treating the death as suspicious. [Like they should have been on the tracks in the middle of the night in the first place?] No they shouldn't - but that's hardly suspicious is it? Suspicious would be if he'd been pushed, or there was some other reason to believe foul play. |
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