Who ran into who?

There was an unfortunate accident just out of Goolwa yesterday where a car tried to beat the Steamranger steam train across the crossing and guess who won?

The train of course!!

I felt very sad for the train operators as they had been doing this engine up for the last 2 years and this was its debut run from Mount Barker through to Victor Harbor. This group is all run by volunteers and the same with the repairs of train rolling stock.

The thing that has made me annoyed is that the news were reporting the accident as the train hit the car. As if the train could go anywhere else but the rails. The car driver was negligent not the train.

Comment: Comments Off on Who ran into who? Date: September 21, 2008
Category: World around us Tags: accident, goolwa, steamranger, train

Mayo by-election comments

The area I live in is about to have a Federal by-election. Our former member moved onto other things 12 months after the election. Our seat of Mayo was a very safe seat for the Liberal Party with former foreign minister Alexander Downer holding the seat for many years.

Now that we have a by-election there has been much speculation and politicing with 11 candidates standing for election , many are independants, not affiliated with any major political party. Most have been running a campaign on the lack of water in our area.

I emailed 10 of the candidates (who had email addresses) asking specific questions on non-water related issues.
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