#essexuniversity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #essexuniversity, aggregated by home.social.
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#TheGuardian: "what happens when a city loses its #university?"
"When #EssexUniversity’s #Southend campus opened [in 2008], it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ #UK seaside town. Its closure [next academic year, which was announced in December,] will be felt far beyond its 800 #students, some of whom will not get their degrees" as they are unable to relocate or commute.
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Earlier report from September mentions 48 fatalities, with 25 of them resulting in CPS being notified for possible criminal charges against driver (who must have survived the #crash - dead people can't be put up before crown/magistrates #Court , incidents like this are usually mentioned at HM Coroner inquests at a later date)
So already 10 further in just a couple of months, which is rather a lot ( #Suffolk usually has less than half the body count)
4 of these deaths are from #Colchester #RTC earlier in the year where #EssexUniversity students crashed their #FordFocus ST into a building due to #alcohol rather than #drugs (but still completely avoidable)
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#inquest concluded today - #collision was caused by grossly excessive speed - 94mph (151 km/h) in a 30mph (48 km/h) zone *and* #DUI
According to the #Police (on their own website) its one of the largest losses of life in a single #RTC in recent times (although I've seen quite a few double #fatals in Essex recently).
Vehicle was #Ford Focus ST, a performance orientated variant (reported on Daily Mail and Sky)
I think every 6th former in #Essex and #Suffolk should be made to learn about this incident and its consequences as part of PHSE ..