Fatality at Haywards Heath station

[Market Porter]

Bless their soul.

But I'm VERY pissed off as they made me miss my lunch time 5 a side and meant I had to share a coach with dozens of very smelly pensioners from Eastbourne.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I thought that the official NSC 'line' after discussing these in the past that there was to be no sympathy for the person who died (there are other less disruptive ways of topping yourself), but lots for the driver and people who were held up getting to work?

The worst one has to be the poor cow earlier this year who made the mistake of laying down on the line THE WRONG WAY ROUND in front of a rush-hour train at Preston Park station. Not only did she survive intact apart from her feet neatly sliced off, but she had to suffer the torrents of abuse from unregistered late-for-work/college posters on the Argus website wishing her an even more horrible death than she originally had planned

 

[mona]

Why are there so many railway suicides in Sussex ?

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Why are there so many railway suicides in Sussex ?

Sign of a more reliable train service?

 

[Taybha]

Why are there so many railway suicides in Sussex ?

Could be down to the amount of positions Virgo has played in since his return..They fatality rate is no higher here than any other city its just the distruption it causes that filters its way to our local media,i work on the greenies and trust me it aint that pretty after one of these incidents,why folk use this method of suicide is beyond me, many train drivers find it hard to cope with and find it hard to return to driving afterwards..Lets hope that none of us ever find out the real reason what makes the jumper actually jump in front of a train or owt else for that matter..

 

[lost in london]

Presumably you are also studying law in order that you can become Judge, Jury and executioner. Has it actually been reported this was a suicide and not an accident or murder?

I wasn't prejudging anything, just a little tongue in cheek comment on people's normal reaction to someone dying on the trainline.

 

[British Bulldog]

i work on the greenies and trust me it aint that pretty after one of these incidents,why folk use this method of suicide is beyond me, many train drivers find it hard to cope with and find it hard to return to driving afterwards..:

It's not just the drivers either there's the staff and BT police who have to attend the scene and pick up whats left, The cleaners at the local depot who go under the train hooking out body parts, The train fitters who find little bits of flesh & blood when they repair the damage to the train as well as the maintenance guys who find similar bits in the trackside equipment that often gets damaged by body parts. It's a nasty messy buisness all round.