On any other day this was a horror crash waiting to happen, with a huge potential loss of life. Instead, on Thursday (23 June) it was just a dramatic incident that caught the attention of the nation. An out of control heavy truck left the road just a few miles outside Edinburgh, demolished a stone retaining wall, and plunged onto the tracks of the East Coast Main Line. Mercifully, the usually busy line was almost deserted, an unexpectedly fortunate side effect of the current industrial disputes in the UK.