02-11-2023, 05:00 PM
(02-11-2023, 04:09 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(02-11-2023, 04:35 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: We need to have empathy and not just demonize people.
Noting that there were multiple warnings telling people not to cross is not demonizing people.
Yes, additional warnings will be good, but that doesn't change the fact that she made a poor, high-risk decision to cross an acrive railway crossing -- and with a child in tow, yet.
And the report raised several mitigating factors that influenced her decision. Nothing occurs in a vacuum.
Demonizing is a shortcut for saying.... "Well she made a poor, high-risk decision to cross an active railway crossing with a child in two"...and concluding that with..."Therefore SHE is the problem, not the railway crossing"
...I feel this is where many of the earlier comments here (and obviously everywhere else) were leading. It's exactly what we do for car crashes, and it's exactly the thinking that keeps us trapped in a dangerous, poorly designed world. If I'm wrong and that isn't where people were leading, then I'm sorry for misinterpreting.
It's also not the case that a report cannot place the blame on a specific individual. Some NTSB air crash investigations have come to that conclusion. But this report doesn't do that, it identifies specific mitigating factors, and it approached the situation with an open mind and didn't jump to conclusions.
It's great our accident investigators are able to do that. I wish they'd investigate all car crashes this way.