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Re: Train skylarkers seek compo after losing legs
Author: D.E.T.
Date: 08-26-2008 - 23:21

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TWO people who lost legs in separate accidents while skylarking on freight trains want the taxpayer to pay for their injuries.

Both were children when they climbed on board the trains and they claim authorities were to blame for allowing them to do so.

State Government authority Victrack and the owner of the freight trains, Asciano Services, were negligent, they say.

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Shelley Tunks, 23, of Longwood, and Thomas Bristow, 20, of East Bentleigh, were injured in separate accidents in 1998 and launched the Supreme Court actions this month.

They claim they now have lesser job prospects because of their injuries.

Mr Bristow was 11 when he boarded a freight train after slipping through a hole in a fence at the Tottenham railway yards on December 14, 1998.

He fell and had to have his right leg amputated and now wants damages from Victrack and the train owner.

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Ms Tunks was 13 when she climbed on top of a stationary freight train at the Longwood loop near Euroa and fell as it took off on April 15, 1998.

She suffered horrific injuries, forcing the amputation of her right leg below the knee. She also required surgery on her left foot.

I know this is a silly question, but where were their parents when these kids were out climbing around on freight trains and getting their legs chopped off?

The plaintiffs should be grateful to be alive and not to have had any other parts of their bodies removed.

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