“BJ” commented on this post in response to my enquiry whether anyone knew the circumstances of a train running over a man at Collingwood Station in mid-September. It’s good writing. I have edited it a little. If anyone has any views about the appropriateness of publishing this to the world, I’m willing to listen. This is BJ’s account:
“I walk onto the train platform I see a bloke on the other side jump down and start to cross the tracks. … Thinking little of it I watch him struggle across the tracks to my side, to the edge of the platform, probably 20 metres away, and in the distance I hear the train too and can make out the headlights up the tracks. So the station platform in raised and supported on a steel substructure and this bloke is having difficulty jumping up, he jumps up and flops his top half on the platform but doesn’t have a wall to kick up from and so falls back again. He looks up and sees the train probably 150 metres away at this stage and keeps trying to get up. At this stage I’m thinking to myself, this guy is pretty keen, and soon it becomes clear that he’s not going to get onto the platform…. This kid and I yell at the bloke who’s about 20metres away from me, ‘Get down, LIE DOWN! GO UNDER THE PLATFORM, WATCH OUT THE FUCKING TRAIN! GET DOWN!!!!!’ In one of those intense few seconds where everything builds up to an incredibly slow motion crescendo, I yell and bound forward a few steps, the kid on the other platform is on his feet yelling, this bloke is perched half on the platform, his legs and lower torso dangling below and the train is 20metres away, moving fast but braking hard…. Continue reading “Collingwood station tragedy described by eye witness”