Call Rail Chiefs To Account, Say Angry Families 

   People who lost relatives in the Paddington crash want prosecutions 
   to be brought against those they feel are responsible for the 
   accident.
   A survivor also says former Railtrack chief executive Gerald Corbett 
   has had blood on his hands and he would like to see him prosecuted. 

   Survivor Tony Knox says it is time for Railtrack to say sorry. 
   Mr Knox, who used his experience working in hospital accident and
   emergency departments to help in the rescue, said: "A little bit of
   vengeance should not go amiss. I would like to see Mr Corbett 
   discomforted." 

   He went on: "It's time for Railtrack to say sorry. Nobody has 
   apologised to us for what they did to us that day." 

   He said that although Great Western had three times warned about 
   the signalling at Paddington, he felt the company was to blame for
   not informing the public of its concerns and that it "should be in
   court on that basis". 

   Mr Knox also suggested that Mr Corbett's face should feature on
    a Wanted poster. 

   And industrial counsellor Robin Kellow, from North Yorkshire, whose
   24-year-old daughter Elaine died in the crash, said the signal 
   layout at Paddington was tantamount to insanity.

   Wednesday June 20, 2001 5:47 AM

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   Complacent. Incompetent. Guilty. The damning verdict on Railtrack

   The Director of Public Prosecutions, David Calvert-Smith QC, is
   "rethinking" his initial refusal to bring charges of unlawful
   corporate killing against Railtrack managers.

   Lord Cullen's devastating 300-page critique of the company
   said there had been "serious and persistent" management
   failures over the siting of signals by Railtrack. The company
   had been afflicted by "institutional paralysis" and
   incompetence.

   Senior supervisors at Railtrack's signalling centre, which
   controlled the Paddington area, harboured a "dangerously
   complacent attitude" to the problem of signals passed at
   danger, it added. Lord Cullen confirmed that the immediate
   cause of the crash was a Thames Trains service on its way out
   of Paddington passing a red signal then disintegrating as it
   smashed "virtually head-on" into an incoming First Great
   Western express, killing 31 people.

   The industry was also taken to task for the absence of an
   organised evacuation procedure in the aftermath of the
   collision.

   But the most devastating criticism was reserved for Railtrack,
   which failed to improve the highly complicated signalling
   system outside the west London station despite pleas from
   First Great Western and other officials.

   At a press conference later, a survivor, Tony Knox, who was on
   the First Great Western train, held up a wanted poster with the
   name of the former Railtrack chief executive. "As far as I am
   concerned, Gerald Corbett is wanted for serial killings on
   British railways," he said. Mr Corbett had "blood on his hands"
   and should be prosecuted", he claimed.


   The Independent - English broadsheet
   By Barrie Clement and Terri Judd
   20 June 2001
  
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