Train crash guilty verdict thrown out [Scotsman Article]





Date: 13/12/2007

A TRAIN driver involved in a rail crash which killed five people 18 years ago had his manslaughter convictions overturned yesterday. Robert Morgan's train went through a red light and hit another train outside Purley station in Surrey on 4 March, 1989.


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