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Formal Enquiry Final Report - Ufton Level Crossing: Passenger Train Collision with a Road Vehicle and Subsequent Derailment on 6 November 2004

Document Summary

The report of the enquiry into the Ufton Nervet accident, in which a car was parked on a level crossing in the path of an express passenger train, which collided with the car and then derailed on a set of points, killing 6 people as well as the car driver.

This document was published on 21st June 2005 by Railway Safety & Standards Board.

It was written by Railway Safety & Standards Board.

This item is linked to the Accident at Ufton Nervet on 6th November 2004

The original document format was PDF File, and comprised 162 pages.The original document can be found here.

This document was kindly sourced from Railway Safety & Standards Board and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 3rd September 2005.

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"On reaching the level crossing, the train struck a Mazda 323 car, which was obstructing the Down Line and had been stationary on the crossing prior to the commencement of the closure sequence. The collision caused the leading wheelset of the leading bogie of the front power car to derail towards the left hand side.

The bogie ran for approximately 95 metres in a line almost paralell to the rails with only one wheelset derailed until it reached the facing points to the Down Goods Loop. The bogie was then guided to the left by the diverging rails of the points, causing the following bogies to derail and resulting in a full and catastrophic derailment of all the vehicles in the train."

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