My thanks to a loyal reader who alerted me to story about Alan Chittock, an employee of Southend Central railway station, who leapt on to the track to help rescue a disabled woman whose wheelchair rolled onto the line.
Mr Chittock and three others jumped onto the line whilst other staff tried to alert signallers; they managed to save her before the other train arrived.
Now, as is the case with incidents of this nature, the rail operator (c2c) is conducting a formal investigation in order to identify exactly what happened and to try to see if there are any lessons that can be learned.
Sadly, this being an exercise by the "rule book", Mr Chittock has been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.
Whilst the
Mail fulminates that this is an injustice, its ire and that of Bob Crowe (never shy of wading into something if it will aid his political and personal ambitions) should be temporarily placed in stasis.
When accidents happen, investigations need to be carried out in order to determine the facts; it would be irresponsible of c2c not to conduct a thorough investigation. As to whether they handled the suspension of Mr Chittock with sensitivity or not it is not clear.
That being said, if the facts are as stated by Mr Chittock then after the investigation is concluded he deserves to be fully reinstated and awarded a commendation for acting as a human being not a robot.
Rule books are there for guidance, sometimes human instinct should be allowed to override the rules.
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