How to Survive Tragedy
Alan Dickinson, a solicitor from Sudbury, was nearly killed in a train crash at Little Cornard two months ago. Today, the East Anglian Daily Times reports how he got back on the train again.
Mr Dickinson, a partner with Tomlinson and Dickinson solicitors in Sudbury, faced his demons today as he boarded the branch line at Sudbury for the first time since the crash.
“I need to get the monkey off my back,” he said.
Waiting on the platform to board the 9am train this morning, Mr Dickinson said he had no fears of returning to the scene of the smash, which almost claimed his life.
“Rail travel is very safe, I have no concerns,” he said.
Mr Dickinson was the worst injured in the crash, in which he was struck in the chest by the table in front of him in the carriage.
Despite walking off the train with fellow passengers, Mr Dickinson was flown to Colchester Hospital then the Royal London Hospital with internal bleeding.
But just two months after the smash, Mr Dickinson, who has lost a stone in weight since the incident, was once more aboard the Sudbury train.
He also bears no ill-feeling towards the tanker driver, who has admitted causing the crash.
He has certainly got all his dignity back too!
Incidentally, in the paper he is shown holding a copy of the Racing Post, so perhaps he knows something about luck and the real odds in life!
The Anonymous Widower 
Acceptance of what has happened isnt easy, but in the long term it is the only thing which works. Most things are no one person’s fault, many things are nobody’s fault. I could blame the owner of the animal which caused my accident, or the animal. What’s the point, the only person suffering from me feel anger and blame towards someone else is me. The doggie in question doesnt know, and his owner wouldnt give a toss.
Comment by liz | October 30, 2010 |