Another example of the journalistic art of stating the perfectly obvious, this time courtesy of
The Australian reporting on the sad death of a 15 year old girl at a railway crossing, the latest in a series of railway deaths recently (my bold).
The girls's death comes a week after a three-year-old boy was struck by a train in regional Victoria and died in hospital the next day.
Last month, a 70-year-old woman was killed by a train at a level crossing at McKinnon railway station.
Police believe she was standing on the wrong side of the pedestrian safety barrier when struck by a city-bound train.
Oh, you think? Hard to see how the train could have been travelling on the wrong side of the barrier without the article being about a deadly derailment. Oh well, I suppose it makes a change from wildly inaccurate or inappropriate picture captions.
