That was gut-wrenching. A parent's worst nightmare. It was funny at the very end of the clip, the female news anchor says, "I want that stroller!". Just like us BC'ers watching Lin Dan perform magic on the court and saying "I want that racket".
Thank God that the baby is OK . Thank God that the baby is OK. Wonder why all adding comments were deleted. .
I cant view the video but im geaussing it was the baby hit by a train? If so yerrr unbelievable the baby got away with just a bump to the head.
They were not deleted.. ..the comments were not deleted but if one clicks on the uploader ("AdoringPalin"), s/he gave an explanation why s/he is not allowing any comments to be posted w/the videos. As for the baby surviving (and the mom being spared any injuries), i'd say there was a divine intervention. bradmyster, yep, the one which happened in your country. try this link: http://mason360.com/20091016695/Videos/Original/train-hits-stroller-baby-survives.html
i'd blame this on poor civil planning and engineering. The platform should be at level or sloping up, not down. Sloping down design here was a (poor) design only meant to drain off water, but designer didnt considered any other material or objects like ball, objects with wheels, etc that can free rolling onto the track. Water drainage can be handled and managed even with a sloping up design platform.
Hmm.. ..if Fox News is not news, then what other network is??.. ..that's the main problem and people would blame on how the platform was designed; IMO, it's more on the engineering part. The timing of when the stroller fell off just as the train approached was pretty unbelievable also. I just wonder, is this the first time ever this kind of freak incident/accident happened at that station, even w/out the train coming? Should be interesting what they'll do to solve that problem.
we here have several of 'incidents' where people have 'fallen' onto the track. Some of them got push off the platform as pranks without the train coming, but there is one case where it was an intended homicide. http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Woman+plead+guilty+Train+death+trial/2137668/story.html the best setup is HK's MTR, where they have glass shield, and the system has the best uptime and on schedule to boot. I bet u after this incident, designers would rethink how think design future platform.
^^For those..^^ - The example of people being pushed or even committing suicide can't be controlled by how the station's platform is designed though. The case in Aussie was just an accident waiting to occur; it was a simple case of a badly designed/engineered platform. I could sense whoever was the contractor or engineer of that train station, they would be under question. - If i recall, most of HK's MTR stations (as well as S'pore LRT and even China's Rail System) are "underground", not like the one in Aussie. And there are very few MTR stations in HK which don't have any glass shield (i remember one in Kwai Fong). I know the station @ HK's Disneyland has some sort of raised glass protection in between the door openings, most likely to prevent such accident from happening.
