| Re: [OTD] 11th June 1972 - Eltham Well Hall Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:07, 12th June 2024 |      |
Thank you both for your detailed information.
| Re: [OTD] 11th June 1972 - Eltham Well Hall Posted by Electric train at 18:01, 12th June 2024 | |
Thank you for that information, Electric train. 
What is the level of alcohol tested against: is it 'zero', or any lower level than the legal limit for driving road vehicles, for example?
I'm asking genuinely out of professional interest.
What is the level of alcohol tested against: is it 'zero', or any lower level than the legal limit for driving road vehicles, for example?
I'm asking genuinely out of professional interest.
29 mil g per 100ml of blood, 13 micro g per 100ml of breath, as Oxonchurch says there is no zero
| Re: [OTD] 11th June 1972 - Eltham Well Hall Posted by Oxonhutch at 22:33, 11th June 2024 | |
is it 'zero'
There is no zero for ethanol in the human body. It is a metabolite of non-drinking people.
| Re: [OTD] 11th June 1972 - Eltham Well Hall Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 21:11, 11th June 2024 | |
Thank you for that information, Electric train.
What is the level of alcohol tested against: is it 'zero', or any lower level than the legal limit for driving road vehicles, for example?
I'm asking genuinely out of professional interest.
| Re: [OTD] 11th June 1972 - Eltham Well Hall Posted by Electric train at 18:27, 11th June 2024 | |
And as for drunken driving ! The last fatal rail accident caused by the driver drinking was IIRC over 50 years ago (Hither green) Happens all the time on the roads.
Hither Green in 1967 was a broken rail. Eltham Well Hall in 1972 was a drunk train driver.
52 years to the day since the Eltham Well Hall "accident" and I have, after thought, added this thread to the "historic" board as something that would not happen today. But a reminder of the need for systems to be in place to be vigilant, jut in case a safety-critical member of staff (or one who can endanger safety) goes - err - off the rails.
Despite the well published policy on random D&A testing, which takes place across offices, depots, control centres, work sit access etc. post incident testing, the pre employment D&A testing and the regular testing at medicals; there are still people testing positive.
Having said that the number is extremely low, there are not many industries that have the legal requirement to conduct regular random D&A testing
| Re: [OTD] 11th June 1972 - Eltham Well Hall Posted by broadgage at 13:53, 11th June 2024 | |
Yes, thanks for the correction, for some reason I had confused Hither Green and Eltham Well hall.
AFAIK, that was the last accident caused by a drunk train driver, most unlikely to happen today, but can not be absolutely ruled out.
| Re: [OTD] 11th June 1972 - Eltham Well Hall Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 12:45, 11th June 2024 | |
Details are available on Wikipedia, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham_Well_Hall_rail_crash
| [OTD] 11th June 1972 - Eltham Well Hall Posted by grahame at 08:38, 11th June 2024 | |
And as for drunken driving ! The last fatal rail accident caused by the driver drinking was IIRC over 50 years ago (Hither green) Happens all the time on the roads.
Hither Green in 1967 was a broken rail. Eltham Well Hall in 1972 was a drunk train driver.
52 years to the day since the Eltham Well Hall "accident" and I have, after thought, added this thread to the "historic" board as something that would not happen today. But a reminder of the need for systems to be in place to be vigilant, jut in case a safety-critical member of staff (or one who can endanger safety) goes - err - off the rails.
