Woman dies after being hit by falling branch in kew gardens

[JimM]

Got a phone call today on the basis of this sad event. Remove some medium sitkas before they fall on our houses please.

 

All healthy, but the bases are 20ft up an embankment at the back of the gardens. Only about 40footers. They're edge trees too. Pity, but I can see them coming down.

[ADB328]

I too am worried that there will be a knee jerk reaction from the public after whats happened and especially after a few comments made by Jeremy on the show.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

No good ever comes of these events, a persons life has been taken (condolences to all her family and friends) and a backlash against trees is always assured after such publicities.

[silky fox]

Unfortunately.....i have to agree with Tony..

[felixthelogchopper]

Surely, if anywhere has a perfect inspection regime in place it would be Kew? Sometimes these things just happen and it's nobody's fault.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Surely, if anywhere has a perfect inspection regime in place it would be Kew? Sometimes these things just happen and it's nobody's fault.

 

 

indeed, but whenever such a loss is felt, there is a grief proscess along with the due process, we tend ( as a society) to look to somone or something to blame, to take out our grief/anger/frustration at the fragility of life ect.

[Paul Jenks]

I'd like to listen to Simon's responses, though firstly I cannot abide Jeremy Vine and his self-aggrandisement and secondly his hyperbole to sensationalize a subject that requires reflection and considered discussion.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I'd like to listen to Simon's responses, though firstly I cannot abide Jeremy Vine and his self-aggrandisement and secondly his hyperbole to sensationalize a subject that requires reflection and considered discussion.

 

Until the public stop listening in and subscribing to sensationalists (its a particular market/demographic) they will continue to believe they are giving the public the genre they want ratings are god, or rather the god of the modern age, money. Hello etc exist because we as a society subscribe to idol worship/and or the freak show.

 

We will always have sensationalism, until we become immune to it.

 

I think Simon did a good job.

[Jack Price]

Until the public stop listening in and subscribing to sensationalists (its a particular market/demographic) they will continue to believe they are giving the public the genre they want ratings are god, or rather the god of the modern age, money. Hello etc exist because we as a society subscribe to idol worship/and or the freak show.

 

We will always have sensationalism, until we become immune to it.

 

I think Simon did a good job.

 

i dont think he could of got his point across any better without going into TO much detail imo, handled it well

[Lee Winger]

I'd like to listen to Simon's responses, though firstly I cannot abide Jeremy Vine and his self-aggrandisement and secondly his hyperbole to sensationalize a subject that requires reflection and considered discussion.

 

To tell the truth I thought the Vine show was pretty good and rather level headed, the chap from the AA did a good job too.

 

 

Anyway all very sad my condolences to the girls family.