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Thursday, 17 April 2008 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosiedoesA woman has been killed at a level crossing I grew up using.
The level crossing is unmanned - just planks of wood across the rails between Staines and Ashford, close to Shortwood Common.
I used to have to cross that section of track to get to hospital appointments, by myself, when I was fifteen or sixteen. There's nothing there. No alarm, no barriers, no phone or way to call for help.
When I was about eight or so, my uncle's friend, Jeremy Green - who used to babysit me when I was a really small child - also died on that section of track. It's part of the reason I live in fear of railway tracks. Trains terrify me.
Fucking hell. I went to school with three Mansell kids. Why has this been allowed to happen again?
The level crossing is unmanned - just planks of wood across the rails between Staines and Ashford, close to Shortwood Common.
I used to have to cross that section of track to get to hospital appointments, by myself, when I was fifteen or sixteen. There's nothing there. No alarm, no barriers, no phone or way to call for help.
When I was about eight or so, my uncle's friend, Jeremy Green - who used to babysit me when I was a really small child - also died on that section of track. It's part of the reason I live in fear of railway tracks. Trains terrify me.
Fucking hell. I went to school with three Mansell kids. Why has this been allowed to happen again?