07-17-2019, 09:47 PM
(07-17-2019, 01:40 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: It's looking more like this is misreporting. There is a tweet from a claimed eye witness.
Yes, the police would likely not make this claim without some evidence, but I don't have 100% trust in the police. That being said, I have far less trust in the reporting, so if I had to bet, that's where I'd guess the error lies.
Honestly, I can see why some people have no trust in anything any paper says...while not entirely fair, it is earned every once in a while.
If it was an officers spouse (or family member) that hit the train then there was no collision with the train, period.
This actually happened to me about 25 years ago, got hit by someone, but what happened didn't happen. Only found out when the judge took me to his office in the back, shut off the recorder, and told me that it was the officers dad that hit me but not much you can do about it, as it's a flawed system.
That said, it could be very well just be poor reporting. I see errors in our local papers every single day. Most are corrected the next day, but the context is missing. "The name of the individual was Jack Bryson - incorrect information appeared in yesterdays paper."