Children dancing and taking selfies on a railway line causes closure of pedestrian level crossing
Selfie Alan, Scooter cheating and dancing children resulted in the closure of the pedestrian level transition.
The transition of the Wantage road in Grove, Oxfordshire was closed by the national rail after a number of dangerous incidents.
The pictures shared by the National Railway showed that children who take selfie on the high -speed large Western outline rail rail and shocking images of the children and shocking images, dancing and playing on live railways as a 125mph train showed that young people were caught.
Other video footage showed groups of children who attracted and photographed themselves in the middle of the runway, and even a child cheating on the scooter on the track.
Wantage Road Crossing allows pedestrians to cross four marks of the outline between Didcot and Swindon. It is known as “passive transition ,, that is, users need to look at both ways to approach the trains before crossing the railway.
Emma Barry from Network Rail warned that these “reckless and incredibly dangerous” actions take place on the railway network very often.
“The number of unsafe events in this special transition did not leave any choice but to take action and close it before a tragedy,” he said.
“The people in these photographs not only put themselves in the risk of serious death with insecure behavior, but also at risk the safety of our staff and passengers.”
According to the national railway figures, the accidents on the rail network are at the highest level of five years and increased by 26 percent compared to last year.
National railway, last year in the railway prevented accidents, 24 people lost their lives, he said. Five of these deaths were in level transitions, and the other 19 were the result of passing the railway in unauthorized places.
The British transport police and the national railway launched a campaign to deal with insecure behaviors rising around the railway network.
Network Rail’s Chief Health, Security and Welfare Officer Priti Patel said: “These numbers are deeply worried, and twenty -four people do not bring him home because of completely preventive conditions.
“The only thing we want is to make people pay attention when they find themselves in a railway environment. Only safe, bridges or level transitions, and when you use them, give them all your attention. The situations shown in our campaign films are real.
