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Lord Cullen has conducted inquiries into three major British disasters, all of which are known as the Cullen Inquiry: The Piper Alpha oil platform disaster, 6 July 1988. The Dunblane Massacre of schoolchildren, 13 March 1996. The Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west London of 5 October 1999.
The first Cullen Report was prompted by Occidental Petroleum's Piper Alpha disaster on 6 July 1988, [1] in which gas condensate ignited, killing 167 of the 229 people on board the oil platform in only 22 minutes. [2]
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington rail crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England, when a Thames Trains-operated passenger train passed a signal at danger, colliding almost head-on with a First Great Western-operated passenger train. With 31 people killed and 417 ...
The Cullen Report into the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in 1999 recommended the establishment of an accident investigation body within the Department for Transport along the same lines as the Marine Accident Investigation Branch and the Air Accident Investigation Branch, bodies that have distinguished themselves by their professionalism and objectivity.
Lord Cullen: May 2000 September 2001 Part 1 Part 2: To investigate the crash at Ladbroke Grove Junction on 5 October 1999 between trains operated by Thames Trains and First Great Western, which caused considerable loss of life and injuries. The Southall and Ladbroke Grove Joint Inquiry into Train Protection Systems etc.
Ladbroke Grove rail crash track and driving diagram (W S Atkins / Health and Safety Commission) Appendix to the Train Accident at Ladbroke Grove Junction, 5 October 1999 (Health and Safety Executive) 'The Lessons from Ladbroke Grove' in Rail (9 October 2019). Pages 79-81; Author: Isochrone: SVG development
Lord Crewe, the Likeness of a Liberal (1955) Queen Mary (1959) Queen Victoria at Windsor and Balmoral (1959) Verandah (1964) Sins of the Fathers (1967) Half-Crown Colony: A Hong Kong Notebook (1969) Anthony Trollope (1971) Robert Louis Stevenson (1974) A Lonely Business – A Self Portrait of James Pope-Hennessy (1981). Edited by Peter Quennell.
For the record, CBA does assign a value to prevented/avoided fatalities: the Joint Inquiry report noted that the value of a prevented fatality (VPF) used by the Dept of Transport etc in 2000 was £m 1.15 (report para 4.23) for road projects and - "to reflect extreme public reaction to accidents involving multiple fatalities, including the fact ...