Jed Rothwell wrote:
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
. . . and may never be unless the engineer recovers and admits to it.
The engineer is dead. The body has not been recovered yet as far as I know.
Oops! I thought I read that he was hospitalized, still alive but not yet able to talk to anybody.
Guess that was wrong, eh?
Oh, well, that's what I get for trying to exercise my French by getting the news from LeMonde.
Would a stone on the rails not have tended to derail the locomotive rather than several cars farther down the train, as I believe actually happened?
This is a commuter electric train was no locomotive. All cars are powered.
Aha! I had read that 3 of the 7 cars derailed but didn't realize they were the _first_ three ... oh well, whatever.
The company president has been shown on the seven o'clock news going around visiting *every single victim's family* and apologizing in person. I doubt that would happen in any other country. The poor fellow looks like a nervous wreck. He said on TV: "I spent all day and night having people tell me: 'Why did you take my daughter from me?!? How could you do this to me???'" I wish we could subject all corporate and government officials to this kind of treatment when they are responsible for terrible accidents, wars, pollution, etc.
That is incredible.
