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I intend to run this as a list of incidents and personal
experience which we can learn from.
If you would like to send any details of an incident which the
benefit of experience should be passed on please email me details. Paul@rideonrailways.co.uk. Details
can be with held, more interested in personal experience
INJURY - an
incident which has resulted in injury
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RoR - we haven't had a serious injury on our
line, but have had plenty of accidents. We conciously have taken the decision to
avoid putting adults on sit in ride on trucks. Sit astride lowers the bodies
centre of gravity and allows feet to go out in in case of an emergency. To date
we have had very few incidents of people on their side in the flowers (except my
mad brother on his speed attempts).
Whether you agree with the payment or not is
irrelevent.
What is more imporant is to learn from it. These
claims are happening.
Now you are aware of this incident, what steps are you taking to
avoid it happening to you?
DAMAGE - incident
involving only damage
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Paul from Bristol - The accident I had was on a
raised section of track. For about 10 feet of the line, along my patio, the
track runs on wooden supports about a foot above the patio height. There is
no fence or any other protection. A kid decided to get off the train while it
was running along this section. He tipped the carriage over and he fell all the
way from the top of the carriage to the patio (about 3 feet) and the carriage
crashed down on top of him. Not nice.
Only solution to this problem is
to put supports that run next to the rails just under the height of the
footrests - this way if the carriage tries to topple over the footrests hit the
supports which stop it toppling. It's no good telling kids to wait till the
train's stopped - they're too excited to remember.
NEAR
MISS serious incident which could have been a lot worse
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Paul from Bristol - My railway is on a continuous
gradient from the patio (the lowest point) to the end of the garden (the highest
point). Despite being told not to, one boy pushed a heavy bogie truck up to
the top of the garden and let it go. By the time it got to the patio it was
travelling at 10-15 m.p.h. How it ever stayed on the track is a mystery! It
careered through the station on the patio and went crashing into the access door
to my garage, taking a large chunk of wood out of the door. Other children
were hanging around the patio station area at the time, but thankfully none of
them were in the way of the runaway truck.. If they had have been, it would
have broken their legs. My solution to this problem is generally to leave the
truck out of sight and to derail it - it's so hard to put it back on the rails,
anyone old enough to accomplish that should know better.

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