Haha are we all potential victims of car crashes anytime we drive a car now?
In fairness, while the weather isn't something you usually hear touted as a selling point for the UK we do have better weather than Vietnam (by contrast the UK has less rain and less humidity).
No because getting in a car doesn't guarantee you will be involved in a crash (driving skills notwithstanding).Haha are we all potential victims of car crashes anytime we drive a car now?
I think you’ll find it’s been going on for a very long time prior to 2019.....
Yeah, it has never happened before and never will again . . .
I just seen this
How many migrants have died in transit?
The number of migrants who die in transit has been recorded by the UN since 2014.
Since then, five bodies of suspected migrants have been found in lorries or containers in the UK:
Data was not collected in the same way before the migrant crisis began in 2014, but such deaths are not new.
- 2014: An Afghan migrant was found dead at Tilbury Docks, Essex. He was in a shipping container, with 34 Afghans who survived
- 2015: Two migrants were found dead in a wooden crate in a warehouse in Branston, Staffordshire. The crate had been sent from Italy
- 2016: An 18-year-old migrant was crushed while clinging to the underside of a lorry in Banbury, Oxfordshire
- 2016: A body was found in the back of a lorry in Kent, which had travelled from France
In 2000, 58 Chinese migrants were found suffocated to death in a lorry at Dover.
Yes its an ongoing problem, what really depresses me is the report from the BBC is so similar yet 19 years on, frankly nothing has changed other than them using Purfleet these days as its far less stringent on checks from what I'm reliably informed.
Monday, 19 June, 2000, 08:25 GMT 09:25 UK
58 dead in port lorry
Bodies were found in a lorry at Dover Docks
The bodies of 58 people have been found in the back of a lorry at the English port of Dover.
The driver of the Dutch-registered lorry, which arrived from Zeebrugge, Belgium, just before midnight, has been arrested.
The 54 men and four women are thought to have been illegal immigrants and reports suggest they are of Chinese origin. Two survivors, both men, have been taken to hospital.
The lorry had travelled to Dover from Zeebrugge
Home Secretary Jack Straw said he was appalled by the loss of human life caused by what he called "the evil trade in trafficking". He will make a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon.
Come on guys, we've got to see this, controlled blind test
