Some very odd reporting of the Southall incident:

        All three died from multiple injuries, the inquest heard, and
        contrary to media reports, Mrs Sidhu was not expecting a third
        child. She and her daughter were killed instantly.

        Aman was identified by his father, Manjit, who arrived at the
        station about six minutes after they jumped.

        He rescued the boy from the tracks and rang for an ambulance,
        but Aman died later.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4227152.stm

Did no-one else ring for an ambulance in those six minutes?
-- 
Roland Perry

When I saw the topic of this thread I thought it was about the 1997
Southall incident!

Roland Perry wrote:

> Did no-one else ring for an ambulance in those six minutes?


Maybe someone did but he rang again, as one might do in the
circumstances.

The report also says that nobody saw those involved step off the
platform, which may mean that the station was pretty quiet and those
present may have been a distance away and not realised what had
happened.

peter

In message , at 
13:16:06 on Thu, 8 Sep 2005, naked_draughtsman 
 remarked:

>When I saw the topic of this thread I thought it was about the 1997
>Southall incident!


The area is truly jinxed.


>Roland Perry wrote:
>> Did no-one else ring for an ambulance in those six minutes?
>
>Maybe someone did but he rang again, as one might do in the
>circumstances.
>
>The report also says that nobody saw those involved step off the
>platform,


The driver did. One can have great sympathy with him, but did he not 
report the reason for his emergency stop?


>which may mean that the station was pretty quiet and those
>present may have been a distance away and not realised what had
>happened.


Is this an example of great pedantry. The chap arrived six minutes later 
and called for an ambulance, despite the platform already swarming with 
police and paramedics?
-- 
Roland Perry

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:32:38 +0100, Roland Perry 
wrote:


>In message , at 
>13:16:06 on Thu, 8 Sep 2005, naked_draughtsman 
> remarked:
>>When I saw the topic of this thread I thought it was about the 1997
>>Southall incident!
>
>The area is truly jinxed.
>
>>Roland Perry wrote:
>>> Did no-one else ring for an ambulance in those six minutes?
>>
>>Maybe someone did but he rang again, as one might do in the
>>circumstances.
>>
>>The report also says that nobody saw those involved step off the
>>platform,
>
>The driver did. One can have great sympathy with him, but did he not 
>report the reason for his emergency stop?
>
>>which may mean that the station was pretty quiet and those
>>present may have been a distance away and not realised what had
>>happened.
>
>Is this an example of great pedantry. The chap arrived six minutes later 
>and called for an ambulance, despite the platform already swarming with 
>police and paramedics?


wonder what was behind him going there - did he have business i.e.
meeting his family there or did he suspect something? Maybe he just
lived close and went to see what the fuss was - in which case why was
he permitted trackside?

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:04:11 +0100, unclewobbly@talk21.com wrote:


>
>>13:16:06 on Thu, 8 Sep 2005, naked_draughtsman 



actually, just read thwe beeb report (don't do *that* often, the beeb
thing, not the reading thing) and it seems she had contacted him. She
must have told him what she planned or sunnik coz he must have made a
b-line to the station

Roland Perry wrote:

> In message , at 23:04:11 on
> Thu, 8 Sep 2005, unclewobbly@talk21.com remarked:
> >wonder what was behind him going there - did he have business i.e.
> >meeting his family there or did he suspect something?
>
> The BBC reports that she had phoned him.
>
>  >why was he permitted trackside?
>
> Or indeed *onto* the track.
>
> Maybe evidence that the station was unstaffed, or poorly staffed?
>

This'll do as a place to put this link.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1564895,00.html#article_continue

It's an article from yesterday's Grauniad about the poor woman.

-- 
Malc

In message , at 
00:42:33 on Fri, 9 Sep 2005, malc  
remarked:

>http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1564895,00.html#article_continue
>
>It's an article from yesterday's Grauniad about the poor woman.


So she returned to that station soon after 1pm, was spotted by her 
husband entering the station, who then had trouble parking his car, for 
quite a long time if the incident was at 1.20 .

Was the security guard replaced at 1pm, or is it unmanned in the 
afternoon?
-- 
Roland Perry