Human decency lost as greed takes over

THAMES TRAINS was hit with a €2m fine in London’s High Court during the week for “serious omissions” in driver training that led to the deaths of 40 commuters and serious injury to a further 250 individuals.

The driver, killed also in the tragic event, was less than three weeks in the job. Due to cutting corners in training to save money he had not been alerted to a difficulty to see a red light just outside Paddington which caused the disaster in October 1999.

Paddington wasn’t the first. In 1988 the Clapham rail crash left 35 dead and in 1995 the Southall disaster caused seven deaths and 150 injuries. So what’s the connection to the business pages you may well ask.