Hi

CCTV camera captures the moment a pram rolls onto the tracks and is than hit by a train. Fortunately the baby survives and suffers only a bump to the head. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGiEJcfdI2c

Thanks

Rick @ Musicraft

Amazing escape!!

I am amazed how fast that pram took off, do they really need that much slope on a platform? I can see a faint seam where they have matched new tarmac up near the train with the old tarmac nearer the building - the pram really took off at that point.

Surprised it doesn't happen more often.

There are some vile comments posted on YouTube about the mother. Easy mistake unfortunately.

Can you imagine what those seconds must have been like for that poor woman? I can't.

I'd have called child protection services right there. The mothers reaction time was prehistoric.

There was a case in the paper last week, a couple stopped for a seaside snog, let go of a buggy and their young child drowned in the sea. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7891741.stm http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2248184.ece

Can you imagine what those seconds must have been like for that poor woman? I can't. I try to imagine that she'll get over it someday and get on with her life... she's got a kid to raise.

I'd have called child protection services right there. The mothers reaction time was prehistoric.


Remember she knew the rain was approaching.

Chucking herself under the train wasn't going to help the kid.

I guess she shoiuldn't have taken her eyes off the pram or let it go thoiugh.

I suppose the slope is to allow rain water to drain off or someone (eg a pram) might slip under a train.

I suppose the slope is to allow rain water to drain off or someone (eg a pram) might slip under a train.
What's wrong with sloping away from the rails, into a gutter at the back of the platform?

I'd have called child protection services right there.

..And while you were doing your duty others would have climbed under the train to rescue the kid-clearly an accident and very suspect and dangerous slope towards the track the mum slipped trying to reach the pram.

What's wrong with sloping away from the rails, into a gutter at the back of the platform?

That's what I do when I'm pissed.

What's wrong with sloping away from the rails, into a gutter at the back of the platform?



Nothing.

I really hadn't given the subject too much thouight before now.

..And while you were doing your duty others would have climbed under the train to rescue the kid-clearly an accident and very suspect and dangerous slope towards the track the mum slipped trying to reach the pram.

She's on a train platform. Would she let go if she was standing next to a busy road too ? What about at the top of a flight of stairs ?

Clearly she's too busy thinking about X Factor or what she's going to by at Topshop than holding on to her kid.

She's on a train platform. Would she let go if she was standing next to a busy road too ? What about at the top of a flight of stairs ?

Clearly she's too busy thinking about X Factor or what she's going to by at Topshop than holding on to her kid.

I think that is a disgraceful and groundless slur, all the evidence I can see in the video points to the obvious..

She shops at Primark.

I am glad the child was OK.

There was a case in the paper last week, a couple stopped for a seaside snog, let go of a buggy and their young child drowned in the sea. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7891741.stm http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2248184.ece



hmmm.....

No "their" about it.

It was his not hers.

They were snogging alright though.

Kinda domino effect? If you do something knowingly wrong, penny to a pound somthing else will go belly up (excuse the expression).

(His wife only discoved the affair due to the loss of the kid)

Nothing.

I really hadn't given the subject too much thouight before now.

Neither had the guy who designed the platform, by the look of it.

Neither had the guy who designed the platform, by the look of it...



:)

Clearly she's too busy thinking about X Factor or what she's going to by at Topshop than holding on to her kid.

I can only assume you know her.
Then again, maybe the foot brake didn't engage properly, we had a fancy buggy for our little fellah and the brake could ping off if you weren't very firm with it, maybe she wasn't familiar with that platform and didn't realise there was a slope(I did notice she was standing well back from the edge).
Maybe she didn't anticipate the extra weight of the bags would give that buggy some extra momentum. etc etc
It reminds me of the Odessa Steps scene in Eisenstein's Battleship Potempkin, now if only the stupid slag had put the pram brake on....

i would say that there for the grace of god go the rest of us. Those here with kids understand what that woman must have been feeling. We shouldn't judge, although the platform did look like it was on a hell a slope. I am going to take my uber expensive TT levelling instrument to London bridge and report back.

Indeed John I agree. One seconds inattention can lead to disaster. God knows what that poor woman felt.

Indeed John I agree. One seconds inattention can lead to disaster. God knows what that poor woman felt.



Yes, thats about it.

Perhpts she haas fastened the brake and it slipped off.

You don't know

Mistakes.

We all make them.

Hi

I have also come across this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC2eF0L-QAA&NR=1 which is clearer and gives an explaination as to what happened.

Thanks

Rick @ Musicraft

The poor women was only pulling up her trousers...

Only the other day I took my eye off our 2yo girl in a hospital car park for about 3 sec and had a near miss. Everyone abusing this women haven't got a bloody clue.

The poor women was only pulling up her trousers...

Only the other day I took my eye off our 2yo girl in a hospital car park for about 3 sec and had a near miss. Everyone abusing this women haven't got a bloody clue.
Thank god you were holding her hand.

She knew abloody great train was coming (we didn't) so I think I'd bebhanging onto that pram whether or no.

Then again the slope on that platform (if you look hard) is a bit extreme.

I don't know.

She won't do it again.

Steep slope on the platform LOL !

Blame culture is becoming worse in the UK than the US. She fcuked up and that's all there is to it.

Blame culture is becoming worse in the UK than the US.

OK, put down your Daily Rant and read that statement again.....



anything?



no?



give it a minute more...



still nowt?



never mind.

Steep slope on the platform LOL !

Blame culture is becoming worse in the UK than the US. She fcuked up and that's all there is to it.

She had the pram facing 90 dgrees to the train. Most people wouldn't expect a pram to take off perpendicular to where it is facing.

I blame those new fancy prams with a big wheel at the front, that thing really turned on a dime :(

OK, put down your Daily Rant and read that statement again.....



anything?



no?



give it a minute more...



still nowt?



never mind.

I read it again. Still agree with it. And....

We had a couple of near-misses with our two, the memory of which still sometimes wakes me up in a cold sweat, twenty or so years on.

We had a couple of near-misses with our two, the memory of which still sometimes wakes me up in a cold sweat, twenty or so years on.

Same here with each of mine.
All of us are fallible, a momentary lapse of concentration, a distraction, faulty prams, slides, swings, a gate left unlatched, a kid with a will of his own etc all out to bite you on the arse-one will get you eventually you just gave to pray that when it does you get lucky.