‘Don’t know, anywhere’ – Worrying words of intoxicated girl, 14,…
A conductor on one of Northern’s last train services of the day in East Yorkshire has been praised after his intervention saved a child from potential harm. The incident happened on the 23:06 service from Bridlington to Hull on Monday evening (August 14). When the train called at Driffield station, a 14-year-old girl boarded the service and was immediately identified by the conductor as being under the influence of drink or drugs. He asked where she was travelling to and her response was: “Don’t know, anywhere”, upon which he immediately contacted British Transport Police and arranged for them to meet the train at Hull, where the girl was taken into protective care before being reunited with her mother. Read more:DPD driver fled country via Eurotunnel with 143 stolen parcels Commenting on the actions of the conductor, who does not want to be named, Andrew Williams, head of trains and stations for Northern in the region, said: “This conductor responded as any one of our staff would do when getting the sense that something wasn’t ‘quite right’ – and I applaud his actions. “Northern works closely with British Transport Police to ensure th
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