[Londonlegacy]

The London rail photographs relate to two unrelated incidents. At Clapham South on March 12, 2015, a woman's coat became trapped in the closing doors of a Northern line train. She was pulled along the platform before falling into the gap, suffering serious injuries but surviving; the Rail Accident Investigation Branch later issued a formal report. A separate photograph shows a man who died on the tracks at West Norwood station on October 16, 2014. An onlooker tweeted the image before his family had been notified, prompting public condemnation from British Transport Police.

[kellyhound]

hope you can find some pics of the accident that happened this morning.

please upload the pics to DR in case the image host decides to remove the pic and the thread gets worthless. i upload that pic for you and this is the story with that particular pic.

Friday 17 October 2014
Police have condemned the “appalling lack of sensitivity” of an onlooker who tweeted a photograph of a young man dead on a railway line, taken and distributed before emergency services arrived.

The incident happened on Thursday afternoon at West Norwood station in south-east London. Ch Supt Paul Brogden, the British Transport police’s commander for London and south-east England, said the photo was made public before the man’s next of kin had been told.

He wrote in a series of tweets: “Difficult rail fatality to deal with at #WestNorwood yesterday due to callous acts of others tweeting an insensitive photo of deceased … This photo was tweeted prior to the arrival of emergency services & before we had even identified & informed the poor lad’s next of kin … We are taking all measures to request the removal of this distressing photo & thanks to all mainstream media outlets for not using this.”

The photo was still being re-tweeted on Friday, sometimes accompanied by mocking comments. It was not immediately clear who first took the picture.

A British Transport police spokesman said: “We were called to West Norwood station at 2.20pm yesterday after reports of a body on the tracks. Colleagues from the Met police and London ambulance also attended. A man was pronounced dead at the scene. His death isn’t being treated as suspicious.

“We are working to identify the man and inform his family and establish how he came to be on the tracks. It’s not certain how he was there and how he died, but that will form part of our identification. We will provide a file for the coroner.”

He added: “This happened very close to West Norwood station and our officers were there shortly after they were called. Unfortunately, somebody took and tweeted a photo, which was re-tweeted many times. It’s something which is disgraceful, there is no other word for it, really. It’s an appalling lack of sensitivity. We have reported the incident to Twitter and we’re waiting to hear back on that.”

[DaFuq???]

Damn, what a way to go!
I really feel sorry for the conductors because they have to live with this.
Have you ever seen the documentary "One Under"?
It shows what these poor guys have to live with.
Great post, Friend!

[djrizzz]

happy jumping

[sugargliderdude]

hang on... this isn't in brazil? whats going on....

[sugargliderdude]

why is there nothing about this on the news? might be a old pic

[bando21]

sleepy beauty

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by Londonlegacy ↗

So there was a guy jumped on the tracks and squashed by a tube at my local station (Clapham South) this morning, unfortunately I wasn't there early enough to get a shit loads of pictures!

I've done some searching and haven't managed to get any pictures of this mornings incident yet but I came out with these. Will keep adding more during the day.

Think that's from another incident somewhere else as it's an overground track.

I go to Clapham South every Friday, it's an underground station though and could only find about 8 images such as these from the Mail Online:

[Jere]

[William May]

What exactly makes it "insensitive"? Do you think the victim really cares? Not likely.
It's really hard to get death and murder pictures in the U.S. and other countries, due to the idiotic desire for secrecy. Why should this be secret? Why is tweeting a picture "insenstive"? Aren't the coroners and other officials all going to take pictures and look at them? Wouldn't you consider THAT to be insensitive? I don't WANT or NEED ANYONE censoring my news, or trying to adapt it in some way. Tell and show me what happened, and then shut the hell up. If I don't want to look at it, I won't.
Thanks for posting this! Viva Freedom of the Press all over the world! Good job!