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October 4th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda As a little boy hit by a train in country Victoria fights for his life, V/Line says there’s nothing it could have done to prevent the tragedy.
The three-year-old boy and a four-year-old friend were playing in a backyard in Wallace, west of Melbourne, when they wandered out of the yard to the railway tracks and were clipped by a Ballarat-bound train on Monday.
The boy’s family is maintaining a bedside vigil at the Royal Children’s Hospital, where he’s in a critical condition with head, chest and abdominal injuries.
The girl remains stable after receiving a head injury and a cut to her leg.
V/Line spokesman James Kelly said the train was likely to have been travelling at between 110-130km/h when it hit the children near a railway crossing about 11.20am (AEDT).
V/Line said its inquiries had found the driver was not to blame for the accident and there was nothing the authority could have done to prevent it happening.
“From our point of view, nobody is at fault with what’s happened, it’s just a tragic accident that has had a widespread effect on a lot of people,” Mr Kelly told AAP.
“We can conclude that there’s ultimately nothing that could have been done that could have prevented it from occurring, at least from the driver and V/Line’s point of view.”
He said it was a tragic set of circumstances.
Mr Kelly said the train driver would remain off work for some time and V/Line would offer him support and counselling.
It has also offered counselling to other staff on the train and sent letters to all passengers, offering them advice on who to contact if they require assistance following the accident.
Public Transport Minister Terry Mulder said he believed the backyard the children were playing in was not fully fenced.
“As I understand there wasn’t a fence fully constructed on the back of the property and most properties do have fences constructed when they face railway networks,” Mr Mulder told reporters on Tuesday.
“The network is open, it’s not fenced, it has been raised in the past, the fact about it is you’ve got level crossings everywhere, you can’t close off level crossings.”
Asked whether fencing was the property owner’s responsibility, Mr Mulder said: “Well, look I’m not going to go into that.
“I think that family are going through enough trauma as it is, but certainly it’s an issue; fencing is controlled by local council.”
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