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Author Topic: Child in buggy blown on to London Tube station tracks - 23 July 2014  (Read 3658 times)
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« on: August 11, 2014, 23:07:45 »

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Child in buggy blown on to London Tube station tracks

A child had to be rescued from the tracks at a Tube station - seconds before a train arrived - after a gust of wind blew a buggy off the platform.

CCTV (Closed Circuit Tele Vision) shows the child in a pushchair being left at the foot of the stairs of two train platforms at Goodge Street.

The wind pushed the buggy on to the tracks but the mother climbed down to retrieve the child seconds before the London Underground train pulled in.

Police said they wanted to trace the parents to make sure everyone was OK.

The pushchair was blown on to the Northern Line tracks just before 19:30 BST on 23 July, but the footage has just been released by the British Transport Police.

Ch Insp Mark Lawrie said: "This was a frightening incident, not just for the scale of the danger the child was exposed to, but also because the woman then put her own life on the line by going on to the tracks. We urgently need to identify the people involved to ensure the child wasn't injured as a result of the fall on to the tracks."
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2014, 09:00:36 »

The walkways & platforms on the tube aren't level....that's what a brake on buggys are for.

Interestingly, the Metro this morning has the story that they had two buggys & the guy went to help the mother with the second while leaving the first at the bottom of the stairs. Silly man.
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2014, 10:10:02 »

The walkways & platforms on the tube aren't level....that's what a brake on buggys are for.

Interestingly, the Metro this morning has the story that they had two buggys & the guy went to help the mother with the second while leaving the first at the bottom of the stairs. Silly man.

I would both hope and imagine they have learnt their lesson and hopefully others will have too. I've see the video of the buggy rolling onto the tracks but don't know if there is one of what led up to this. There may have been events that distracted the parents

I'm not saying it's right I'm just saying that sometimes it happens
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2014, 10:36:57 »

Interestingly, the Metro this morning has the story that they had two buggys & the guy went to help the mother with the second while leaving the first at the bottom of the stairs.

That was the distraction....
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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2014, 23:09:26 »

So how long before BTP (British Transport Police) do the usual and try to gain a detection out of it and do the parents for something.
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« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2014, 11:53:30 »

Quite. Why else to they want to speak to them? The kid would have been taken to hospital or doctor's by the parents if it were harmed. Or they'd have called an ambulance.
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« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2014, 15:35:24 »

". We urgently need to identify the people involved to ensure the child wasn^t injured as a result of the fall onto the tracks."

Aka we need to increase our crime detection rates as they are low and this could potentially net us 4 easy detections. We also want to grass up the parents/guardians to social services to make sure they are a fit and proper person to have kids.



Im actually surprised BTP (British Transport Police) arnt going for the member of staff on duty for something stupid like dereliction of duty or some other stupid charge.
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2014, 12:54:46 »

Coincidentally, RAIB (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) have released a report into two earlier "roll-off" accidents at Southend and Whyteleaf. (PDF here.)

They even managed to get a mention of the Goodge Street incident into the text.

I am a bit surprised they talk almost exclusively about platform slope and applying the brakes, though they do mention both wind and that in one previous case a barrier was erected at the platform entrance. These barriers seem pretty common now, and while they are probably there to prevent genuine crush (i.e. crowd movement) hazards, or people running onto the platform and falling or colliding with others, they do reduce the impact of wind or slope.
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