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[quote user="marknewton"][quote user="Bucyrus"] A hole big enough to fall through, in the middle of a narrow walkway, in the middle of the night would be a death trap.  Anything less than posting armed guards would probably be negligence.    [/quote] The entire bridge is a "death trap", if you're a trespasser wandering around on it at 1.00 in the morning. The law may well say one thing about liability, but common sense tells me that the responsibility is all down to the trespasser if they fall. That seems to be the sticking point here... Mark.[/quote]Mark, it is certainly reasonable to say that trespassing on the bridge would be dangerous, but I would not call it a deathtrap.  A person could walk back and forth across that bridge continuously every day and night without getting hurt unless they were struck by a derailment or something dragging.  So I would reserve the term deathtrap for things far more dangerous.  A perfectly robustly constructed walkway with a perfect hand railing running thousands of feet in a perfectly straight, level line inspires confidence.  After a thousand feet or so, the confidence turns into complacency.  Why wear out your hand by keeping it riding along the railing?  There is no need to hang onto the railing on such a perfect, secure walkway.  Who would expect a hole big enough to fall through?  How many people would see the hole in time?  That hole in the walkway is exponentially more dangerous than all the general hazards of the bridge put together.  I would call that hole a deathtrap.In fact it is such an extreme deathtrap that I would not be surprised if we learn more about how it came about as the story develops.  It could have just as easily killed a trainman.
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