BW face big fines

[Allan(nb Albert)]

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[carlt]

Personally I think fining BW is pointless and is just one govt. dept. taking money out of the pot and putting it back in again.

 

Any financial penalty should go, entirely, to the family of the deceased.

[ditchcrawler]

Personally I think fining BW is pointless and is just one govt. dept. taking money out of the pot and putting it back in again.

 

Any financial penalty should go, entirely, to the family of the deceased.

Its the same for rail incedents as well

[sociable_hermit]

"Upper Lode Lock was closed for six months following the death while the HSE carried out an investigation."

 

Even railway incident sites get cleared for use quicker than that. And roads take a few hours at most.

 

Did the HSE rebuild the lock themselves while they were there?

[Allan(nb Albert)]

I did some reseach into this and it seems that this fatality was in 2004 just six weeks before a father and son died on the K&A when a tractor toppled into the water. In that case BW were fined £100,000 but, obviously, it was the taxpayers and boaters that picked up the bill.

 

I have some difficulty in understanding why courts make the taxpayer accountable in financial terms rather than British Waterways directors or managers.

[Allan(nb Albert)]

I have done some digging on this news story -

 

NbW Article

 

One is left wondering how many have to die in safety related accidents before the Remuneration Committee uses its discretion to withold bonus payments.