Video Footage and Story: Baby's pram filmed rolling onto train tracks

[Fares_Fair]

Video Footage and Story: Baby's pram filmed rolling onto train tracks
18:30 AEDT Mon Feb 6 2012

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8414865/babys-pram-filmed-rolling-onto-train-tracks

Shocking video has emerged of a pram containing a five-month-old baby rolling off a Melbourne train platform and onto the tracks.

Nine News obtained the footage, after a four-month Freedom of Information battle, while investigating the problem of sloping platforms.

The incident at Fairfield station late last year was only one of three involving prams rolling off platforms in 2011 alone.

Thankfully in all three instances the babies escaped unscathed.

Public Transport Users Association president Daniel Bowen said parents needed to take care, but train infrastructure "should be as safe as possible".

Metro has admitted the vast majority of its stations slope the wrong way but says new stations have been constructed with platforms facing away from the tracks.

"The new stations always slope away from the tracks, it's a legacy of the old stations where the water flowed onto the tracks," Metro spokesman Daniel Hoare told Nine News.

"It happened so quickly in this instance, it just shows you can't look away from a pram."

[HappyTrainGuy]

I want to know the number of that coffee place where that guy got his coffee from if it tasted so good that he couldn't grab the pram as it was rolling past

[Fares_Fair]

He just watched it, and even moved around it.
Unbelievable!

Regards,
Fares_Fair.