La società ferroviaria ha multato £ 1 milione dopo che la donna ha ucciso sporgendosi dal finestrino del treno

Who sticks their head out of a train window at 75mph?

Bit mad really. Maybe don’t put your head out of a train travelling at 75mph

Firstly, I’m not suggesting that continuing to run trains with droplight windows was a sensible idea given the astounding lack of common sense some people display these days, a rail company should take prior incidents into account when making decisions on passenger safety.

But personally I’m very attached to my head and wouldn’t stick it out of a carriage window while travelling at 75 mph, especially when there is an obvious risk of hitting equipment positioned next to the track or foliage that may have grown or fallen adjacent to the track due to storm damage or rot.

As a nation we appear to decry the growing nanny state that tells us what we can and cannot do, then hold companies responsible for an individuals failure to predict an entirely forseeable outcome to an action, a move that just adds to the abdication of personal responsibility, handing control over our lives and available actions to the government.

Edit: I guess it’s all self defeating in the end, where the abdication of responsibility leads to an avoidable accident via the thought “they wouldnt allow me to do it if it was dangerous”, leading to the curtailing of actions through tightening legislation, leading to someone else finding an even more dangerous activity that surely would be prevented if it actually was dangerous…

There’s something about getting on or in vehicles that seems to suppress people’s self preservation instincts.

Back when I were a nipper we had a book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake on how to not be a fucking idiot on and around railways lines.

It included a page on ‘not sticking your head out of the window, you moron’ with a comical image of a mans head flying off after hitting a post.

We, as Year 3 kids, laughed; why would anyone be so stupid. Why do we need this one in the book?

Anyway, turns out we did.

What on earth was going through her mind when she hung out of the train window???

Telegraph pole you say?

The article has a very questionable paragraph. Read it carefully:

> Ms Roper had poked her head out of a window in a door which could be lowered when passengers needed to use the handle outside to leave the carriage, known as a droplight window.

It could have been written like this

> The door windows of that type of train could be lowered to use the handle outside to leave the carriage

Yet you could argue they are trying to imply she poked her head out /in order to/ open the window. There was no need to mix ‘Ms Roper had poked her head out of a window’ and the explanation of why the window exists

This appears to have involved an Inter City 125 train that has been around since the mid-70s. How is that for decades people managed not to stick their heads out of the windows and get themselves killed? Was it the Young Ones sketch where Vyv got decapitated doing that? Was it Roald Dahl’s Guide to Railway Safety?

[Vyvian showed us why in the 1980s](https://youtu.be/vcoWdrerLdU?si=LOTcbAn3P6NnNUXb?t=1m08s)

Edit: Timestamp didn’t work. Go to 1:05

As this is main railway company operating a commercial route with the general public then its warranted they got find as i think people should expect the safest journey reasonably possible but if it was heritage train and journey then i think they should have exceptions.