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Getting home safely

HAT AN ABSOLUTELY horrendous accident. Of course my deepest sympathy to family and friends – and I’m absolutely sure that that sympathy is offered by everyone in the transport industry. But there were six people directly involved in that tragedy. If media reports can be believed, a fifth person deserves no sympathy – but again, justice demands that his actions be firstly considered by a duly constituted court before the rest of us make judgement. Eyewitness claims though cannot be totally ignored.

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