Man trapped between train and platform

PFFF my 'funny' remarks were removed yesterday, inconsistency detected.

In other news: The OP news link has removed the photos today.. I am guessing there isn't much hope for him to survive.
 
2bit said:
Not really - it's supposed to be a 'safety' feature.
We all accept the potential danger issues with driving cars.

It's more like getting strangled by a seat belt to use the car analogy.
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No it's like ploughing your car into a lamp post because you didn't look where you were going.

It's not so much a safety feature as a necessary part of the platform due to it's shape.

Who the **** steps off a train without looking down first though?
 
Yeah but surely the platform should have a safety system whereby if anything gets trapped the platform will retract and not continue on causing damage to train or person?
 
Tefal said:
the fact it';s been used millions of times without incident leads me to think it's user error.

I say we ban cars they have very few safety features limiting the stupidity of the operator and kill dozens of people a day.
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I'd say that there was blatent liability from the train manufacturer / tube owner.

Would it be forseeable that someone might fall down the gap and be crushed? Check.

Is the person so farm removed from forseeable harm that there cannot be liability? No, the harm directly comes from forseeable accident.

Is there any other reason to exclude liability? No.

Unless the guy purposely jumped down the gap, it's pretty much case closed liability as far as I'm concerned.
 
Tefal said:
the fact it';s been used millions of times without incident leads me to think it's user error.

I say we ban cars they have very few safety features limiting the stupidity of the operator and kill dozens of people a day.
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Legally the chance of an accident happening is irrelevant, if something is foreseeable and it is viable to do something about then there is a case. At the end of the day, he could have had a seizure and fallen into it or get pushed, or a gust of wind blows him into it, the fact is that it is a very unsafe design incorporating no safety features, the accident was easily foreseeable and a clutch is not exactly hard to implement. A company has a responsibility to protect the public and they completely failed here.

There was recently a case where parents sued and won the case, where their child had fallen onto a paintbrush and got brain damage because it was considered foreseeable, what are the chances of that happening?

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But tbh who knows that there wasn't something installed there and a variety of factors led to such an event occuring.
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A torque limiting device would make that mechanically impossible.
 
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One of the comments on : New York Post (Family puzzled by pinned man's subway nightmare)

cuteashell
THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED, IT NEARLY HAPPENED TO ME A FEW YEARS AGO..

The extender doesn't always work. One time I was in the train, the train doors opened, but the extender was not there. However, after a second,the extender jutted out. If I had taken a step, I would have fell and been caught between the extender. That's why now I stand way back when I am in the train & outside of the train at Union Square on the 4 or 5. It is an accident waiting to happened. This is how it could have happened, unless he fell into the gap before the train arrived at the station.
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he is alive and seems to be recovering (well enough to talk to press and his lawyers). I've been waiting for news on him since I read what happened. It doesn't say what sort of long term injuries he has.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348716/Man-survived-subway-train-crush-sue-15m.html

edit....just realised it's the daily fail. Also, I don't think my post came across at all concerned for him....which is comletely the opposite of what was intended.
 
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he's got a good case if not for the falling down part then certainly for the extended time it took to free him.
 
That looks grim :(

I could think of a few simple reasons to stay behind the painted line on a platform but I'd never heard of this one.

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One transit worker at the scene said it took about 20 minutes before a contractor arrived and was able to climb into a platform manhole to work on the extender's hydraulics. After about 10 more minutes, he removed a tube from the device, releasing air pressure so the victim could be freed by cops, sources said.
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Hm?
 
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