Train passed red signal before fatal Bedford crash, says report
A train driver who died in a crash in Bedfordshire had a red signal moments before the collision, investigators said.
Train driver Shaun Burton, 60, died and nearly 100 people were injured when a London-bound service crashed into the back of another on Friday.
Burton’s train passed a red signal near the crash site at Elstow, near Bedford, at 5.15pm on Friday, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said in an interim report.
He added that “it is not yet possible to tell which alert the driver received” from the automatic warning system (AWS) equipment fitted to the train.
The RAIB found that the stationary train had stopped “unexpectedly” due to a fault in the Automatic Warning System (AWS) equipment.
According to the researchers, the data shows that the signal behind the stationary train is red.
The Corby train passed this red signal; The train was traveling at approximately 76 mph when its brakes were activated approximately nine seconds before impact.
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