Salisbury train crash driver suffers ‘life-changing’ injuries
A train driver suffered “life-changing” injuries and 13 passengers, including a child, needed hospital treatment after two trains collided as they entered a tunnel in Salisbury.
British Transport Police (BTP) said on Monday that they could not rule out foul play but officers do not believe one of the trains was derailed as it hit an object on the line, as had originally been thought.
It is understood that police and the rail investigation branch are focusing on issues including the signalling and points, human error and weather conditions at the time.
Speaking outside Salisbury railway station, Supt Lisa Garrett, of BTP, said the crash happened at about 6.45pm on Sunday when the Great Western Railway (GWR) service from Southampton to Cardiff collided with a South Western Railway train from London Waterloo to Honiton in Devon as both entered the Fisherton tunnel, close to the city centre...
The little map which comes with this story suggest the collision occurred at a junction, with both trains travelling in the same direction and hitting each other obliquely as they reached the junction at the same time, travelling in the same direction.