 Spelt J-A-R-A-M-A-Z-O-V-I-C. I'm Inspector of Police attached to the Riverside Patrol Group in which Cannon Hill exists. Joe. The fatality occurred at the Cannon Hill railway station this morning just prior to 7 a.m. Unfortunately we've had an incident again where someone has has not obeyed the safety measures that are in place. They've crossed the boom gate area against the safety measures with the view of catching a train and not realising that an express train that was empty was travelling the other way and collided causing the person to die at the scene. Our investigations at this stage have preliminary confirmed the identity of the female victim however that hasn't been fully confirmed so at this stage I'd like to keep that to a minimum. I can confirm that the victim is of Asian background here on what we suspect certainly in terms of that identity to be an overseas working person however again the next akin in relation to whom we believe this is a victim has not been yet contacted so on that basis I'd like to keep that to a minimum. The incident was observed by a number of witnesses at the scene who have very much confirmed what has occurred which is further supported through CCTV footage at the railway station in that a westbound train was stationary at Cannon Hill railway station having passed through the boom gates on Barrick Road. The victim in this instance we believe was trying to catch that train and on that basis was running late. The victim has walked to the pedestrian boom gate closure however when the female victim was unable to open the safety measure she has actually walked back out onto the bitumen roadway and around the boom gate crossing the roadway with an obvious focus upon the train at the train station that she was intending on catching. Again presumably unbeknown to the to the female victim an express train was traveling without passengers easterly at speed and had no opportunity to stop. The gates were actually down so she's come out of that safety sort of barricade round and did she have to go jump over the boom gates? No it's believed she's actually walked around the boom gates to the point where she was able to access the railway line. How fast was the train going? Look we can't confirm the exact speeds but it was certainly at a speed that you'd expect it to be traveling through that particular area not having stopped at the railway station just prior to the boom gate area so whilst you know I presuming to say that it wasn't traveling at 100 km per hour I dare say that it was was traveling in excess of 50 km per hour. How's the driver? Look the driver's shaken up as you can imagine. The driver has been interviewed by us it's very clear from our investigations to date that the driver was not in a position to to take any other action that unfortunately caused us fatality. How old is the victim? Can you ever tell us that? We believe the victim would be 31 years of age. How long she's been in the country? Again I don't want to talk into specifics in relation to it in fear that certainly family members or friends in the area that might it might cause undue alarm to them. Essentially she was here for a working holiday top thing. That's great. So you probably just explained this but it's starting to clarify did she actually push open the pedestrian gate? She's tried. Yeah but unfortunately it wasn't able to be opened and essentially that has caused her to move back through the pedestrian area around onto the bitumen roadway where she's actually crossed the railway. What country is she from? Look I'd like to just keep it as being an overseas national. A memory, didn't a similar incident happen that would have been made last year where Amanda did a similar thing but you know despite that a second at that station? Look I don't know the personal circumstances in relation to that but I like anyone watch the news and it's unfortunate that we have a lot of these cases far too many and even far too many close calls where unfortunately people don't necessarily adhere to those safety precautions that have been put in place for very good reasons and I understand that it is common for you know a person under some type of distress be late for a train to have that tunnel vision to really you know move away from that what you'd expect to be a common sense approach to look left and right prior to crossing the railway line so unfortunately in this case the stationary train was actually on the southern side of the actual intersection and of course the eastly bound train was on the northern side and that was the train that collided with the victim. And how busy it was at that time of the morning? Look yeah quarter to seven in the morning on a weekday in Brisbane certainly at the moment we're experiencing a probably a little less traffic than there otherwise has been from people being on vacation however there were a number of witnesses at the scene stationery whilst the boom gates were down and the red lights were flashing. What have the witnesses told you how are they? Look it's very traumatic and unfortunately we experience this even for the police officers who not only have to speak and try and comfort those people but certainly have to go to that extended effort to locate evidence at the scene and go through the traumatic I suppose or the trauma of trying to repiece what has occurred. I think we can all certainly appreciate what the driver would be experiencing at the moment and I understand he's been giving us support. We are. That's correct. Yeah look as you can appreciate with these occasions prior to it to a notification of an exit of kin even we go to extraordinary lengths to make sure there is a hundred percent confirmation of the identity of the victim in this particular instance due to the collision that has been very difficult at this stage we're relying on evidence and documents being found on upon that person and correlating that with information of course that we'll inquire as we've conducted at the residence where we suspect that victim has resided. We're confident that that we we have the right person in mind however we do need to go through the process of making sure that that is confirmed prior to the next to kin being informed. With floodmates.