Taxpayers fined

[GastonJ]

Network Rail has been fined ?4m over the death of a former film actress at a level crossing.
Brenda McFarland, known as Olive, was killed in August 2011 when she was hit by a train at the Gipsy Lane crossing in Needham Market, Suffolk.
The 82-year-old appeared alongside Sean Connery in The Frightened City in 1961, and in The Sweeney and BBC dramas.
The rail firm was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court having admitted breaches in health and safety regulations.

Judge Martyn Levett said the fine would have been ?6m but for Network Rail pleading at the first opportunity.

Network Rail - which owns and manages the crossing - said individual mistakes had been made but the firm had not ignored warnings or been guilty of systemic failings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-37428393

I'm sorry she's dead, never should have happened. However network rail is owned by the taxpayer and as such the taxpayers will be paying the fine. Why are those who made the mistakes not paying it instead?

[DOUGALMCD]

We used to pay people to walk the tracks if we did so nowadays accidents could be avoided or maybe not as every pound saved goes towards people awarding themselves bonuses for achieving nothing but cutting back.

[super jumbe]

Our country has been taken over by the compensation claim from almost every thing happens (No win no fee) FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPENSATION SCHEME…
Trust me you do not have to be alive to go to court for compensation look at Jimmy Savile people still cashing!!!

[ifred]

Yes but to whom is the fine paid the tax payer! The woman has died sure the best thing would be give the culprit jail time for premeditated manslaughter. Surely though the managers will have learned lessons and either get a bonus or a golden handshake. best outcome for the public not!

[Meat-Head]

"Pleased" about this, here in m/c same, but was often 3 seconds
neteork rail closed the crossing, instead of reprigramming speed limits wurh gps into trains!

just a midufied to tom would do, speed on cerrain corner, it tweets