Bedford Train Collision Kills Driver, Injures Dozens
A train collision in Bedford, UK, resulted in the death of the driver and left nearly 90 people injured, with nine in critical condition. The incident involved two passenger trains colliding during rush hour.
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Driver killed in UK train collision north of London, police confirm
The crash occurred late Friday afternoon near Bedford, a town around 90 kilometers north of the UK capital. It also left 11 people seriously injured.
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Emergency services rushed to the scene of a collision on Friday between two trains north of London. A train driver died and 89 people were injured after two East Midlands railway services collided in the Bedford area. Members of the public were told to stay away from local hospital emergency departments on Friday night unless they were suffering from a genuine emergency Train driver dies and 89 people injured after two trains collide near Bedford Continue reading...
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More than 80 people received treatment after the crash and 28 remain in hospital.
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Nine people remain in a critical condition following a train crash on Friday near Bedford, about 100 kilometres north of London, in which the driver of one of the services was killed.
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Nine people remain in a critical condition following a train crash on Friday near Bedford, about 100 kilometres north of London, in which the driver of one of the services was killed. Two passenger trains bound for London collided at around 5:15pm local time (9:15pm PKT) on Friday. The driver of one of the trains died at the scene. Peter Knapp, a doctor who said on a social media site he was on board one of the trains, described a “sudden crash” with one carriage off the rails and said he had...
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The cause of the incident was not immediately known, and transport minister Heidi Alexander said an investigation was underway.
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UK accident investigators were on Saturday probing the cause of a train collision north of London which killed a driver and injured scores of passengers, nine critically. The post Driver killed, 28 hospitalised after UK train collision appeared first on Vanguard News.
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