Bad day... NAC

[Lawrence C Leung]

Glad you had no business in London, today.

LL - NY

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:06:29 -0000 "Jim Haseltine"
<Jim at ur-q.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>This seems like something dreamed up by a film director but
>unfortunately......
>
>Early this morning a guy set out in a Land Rover and trailer 
>combination to
>transport a Renault car cross-country to Manchester. Part way through 
>his
>journey he lost control of his vehicles which left the M62 motorway at 
>a
>point where there were no guard-rails and slid down an embankment on 
>to the
>main East Coast London-Scotland railway line.
>He got out of the Land Rover and phoned the emergency services using 
>his
>mobile but within seconds a southbound passenger train 20 minutes out 
>of
>York and travelling at 125mph, hit the vehicles, derailed and skidded 
>onto
>the northbound track.
>Moments later, a freight train heading north loaded with 1,000 tonnes 
>of
>coal, ploughed into the wreckage at 60mph.
>
>13 dead.
>
>I can't even start to imagine how that driver feels now - as for 
>myself,
>that south-bound passenger train just happens to be the one that I 
>catch
>when I visit my company's London office.
>
>
>Jim Haseltine
>
>