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But Trump trumps this BRITISH news story
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No mention of Deaths on the Brilliant BBC
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Of course Trump dominates the news don't be so daft.
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No confirmed deaths anywhere, source?
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Croydon tram overturns: Two trapped and 50 injured bbbbc bbc
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LBC reporting 6 feared dead..it was 8 earlier
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 must be chaos around there |
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The item was half way down the Mail on line..its a major BRITISH news story..just saying
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Unless you live in the area or are directly affected by it an accident like this is a minor news story to the rest of the country....unless you are a rubber necker type.
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Minor news story..6 maybe more dead...strange sense of values you have mate
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from Twitter
Danny John Jules @DannyJohnJuIes 12m12 minutes ago Danny John Jules Retweeted BTP Croydon has a high proportion of blacks. This affects black people more than whites. #blacklivesmatter |
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When the penny drops with the BBC that black lives have been lost it will be clear the decks and relegate Trump as an after thought.
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how on earth does a tram (2 car) overturn ? speed?
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I used to live quite close to Sandilands and have been on the tram countless times on that line
There are some very sharp turns not far from Sandilands - I suspect speed will be the cause, either that or it will have hit a large vehicle on the line |
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five confirmed dead
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Driver arrested.
2 still trapped |
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Very odd tweet from Danny John Jules, does he sell chips?
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Was on one of these trams when I was down in London about 6 months ago, looking at the pictures it is on a bend and no other vehicle is present, so going too fast round a bend could be it. Horrible thing to happen, people falling on top of one another as the tram slides over the road
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seen the pics - accident was at the exact point I mentioned earlier
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Going too fast apparently.
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7 dead
Still not the top story on the bbc site. |
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It mentioned deaths on the bbc news briefly, was it SEVEN though?
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Main BBC News at 6-00 ,or 6-30 when they got round to this minor item, said 5 dead. Shameful to ignore our news while they had 33 minutes on US election ! I wonder how much bad news the spin doctors released today ?
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wow yes you're of course right, c4 news just said at least 7
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40 mins into Channel 4 news before it got mentioned....shamefull
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what odds he was texting
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3 minute mention and then straight back to Clinton
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Absolutely shocking news.
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Would have thought Trams safest form of Travel
The thing looks intact, hard to Believe so many DEAD RIP |
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BBC 'Trams are not fitted with any safety protection systems that apply the brakes automatically if they are going too fast, according to the Office of Rail and Road.' Well that will be changing.
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Yes it looked totally intact? Windows broke and people went under it perhaps? People on the top side broke necks falling?
It seems strange to have so many deaths. |
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One of the lines of enquiry is that the driver fell asleep.
Any chance of the US Elections playing a part in this? |
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Probably a fast tracked driver?
Not a joking thread obviously - RIP |
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You see train wrecks with the carriages ruined with less deaths, it's strange.
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I find trams a bit scary. Nearly got run over by one in Oslo once. Didn't hear it coming, and it just looked like a pedestrianised area, didn't take enough notice of the tracks obviously.
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didn't it say something like the driver had been arrested but not in
connection with the crash? or did i dream that? sure i heard along them lines earlier |
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Nah, must have been in connection with the crash, ron.
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Having been on that tram in the past myself, there is a steep down hill part were speed is easily built up followed by an extremely sharp bend,
I would imagine that the passengers were thrown into each other or the sides of the carriage at a terrific force with momentum. |
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ah yes, that must have been it Des!
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The downhill and bend might be key ,rear carriage raise and then swing in a snake like fashion with the energy concentrated there,as carriage has came down passengers put through windows and then carriage with momentum goes over the top of them trapping them under the overturned carriage and track .
Just a guess though and do not know if thats the case although having seen pictures there did not seam to be a concertina effect of the carriage ,although there could be on the underside and trapped were in the carriage . lessons will be learned . Unusual for a driver to be arrested so soon and also suspected "falling alseep" rather than blacking out or just not knowing what happened to be given as a cause ,maybe there is CCTV in cabin ? even then still unusual for that speculation to be released so soon . RIP the dead injuries sound horrific and sounds like a long day for the emergency services trying to free the trapped passengers . Looks like another case of human error although be interesting to here what safety systems were in place ,thought a dead mans handle was in operation on rail vehicles . |