@itvnews: One person has been killed and 89 have been injured after two passenger trains collided near Bedford. British Transport Police responded to a call about a collision between two East Midlands Railway (EMR) services at 5.15pm on Friday, stating that "a number of people have been injured, and one person has very sadly died". The person killed in the crash was the driver of one of the trains, the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers said in a statement. "The thoughts of RMT are with their family, friends, colleagues and the ASLEF trade union at this awful time," Eddie Dempsey said. Of the wounded, 11 suffered “very serious” injuries and 22 were seriously injured, East of England Ambulance Service said. A further 56 people sustained minor injuries and were treated at the scene or taken to hospital. #itvnews #news #traincrash #bedford #midlandsrailway

Idktbhs :

Never sit in the front or rear carriage of a train. 🫵

mysterycelebritydaughter :

Trains should never have been privatised.

XJM✨ :

My condolences to the driver’s family.

nuttymark :

big compensation sounds very expensive to me

Angiedaplungerprincess🦄💖🎮🚜 :

People on here speculating and putting blame on the driver make me sick! Have a bit of respect and consideration

19Paul90 :

I use that train a lot I’m from Bedford

Dark :

Bedford? Where’s Bedford?

superiour :

how much money will they be compensated?

Diva Fresh :

My condolences to the family

ParisBrest :

My condolences to the driver's family

JP :

And people say Train drivers job is easy. RMT ams Aslaf have my support in supporting the drivers family, friends amd team.

Donal65 :

so sorry 😞

DTN-1-E :

seat belts should be introduced to all public transport for safety of paasengers ?

8ball 8ball :

thanks so much i was taking this train but my university ended so I did not need this train anymore

angel✨️💫 :

why don't we have seat belts on trains?

B!G ‼️ :

My condolences to the driver's family

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How does this affect union strike hours?

nk_realll :

How

Gift :

How

Zahra❤️👑 :

Northguy :

brad.bradshaw118 :

And still ask for a pay raise

abhilasha 🇮🇳 :

No boy can reject me 😍😘

𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑵𝑵𝑨 :

I am so sorry 😢

S.N.J33 :