Re: Incident at BPN

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:29:25 +0000 someone who may be "Clive D. W.
Feather" <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote this:-

The Inspector felt that a possibility was that the driver had suffered a
medical condition - two were named in the report - that caused him to
lose consciousness but retain muscle tension, so would have kept the
handle depressed.

That this sort of thing could happen (and ISTR has happened) is one
of the reasons why vigilance devices were introduced all those
decades ago.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
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http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54
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