What initially started out as a tragic accident has now gradually emerged as a case of possible manslaughter, with police searching for witnesses to corroborate the events of that tragic Saturday night.
The real villains of the piece however, are the wooden slats situated between the level crossing and the station platform (above), across which I imagine, the unfortunate passenger tried to walk and inevitably got her foot caught between them, resulting in the fatal collision with the train.
This walkway has often been a tricky area to cover, especially ever since British Rail, in their infinite wisdom, chose to remove an adjacent foot crossing for passengers to get to the other side of the station (there is no footbridge or subway) when the gates were down.
It seems that (as far as Railtrack were concerned) people were not sensible enough to look at a red signal to distinguish it from a green one denoting when it was safe to cross the line.
So what happened at Hythe station as a result was really the inevitable waiting to happen.
Too much emphasis nowadays is on making sure that railway companies don't have sufficient grounds to be sued by angry customers, or daren't take the risk of breaking suffocating health & safety regulations. In all cases, a little common sense should be applied, first and foremost.
