HARROWING footage shows the bloody aftermath of last night’s fatal train crash that killed a driver and injured 89 others.
Passengers have also told of their horror – with injured commuters left “spitting out blood” in scenes like a “bomb had gone off”.
Video from those on board shows dazed passengers looking around while injured commuters can be heard crying for help.
Other pieces of video – which The Sun has chosen not to publish – show travellers collapsed between seats covered in blood.
Elsewhere, The King has said he is “greatly saddened” – as today police remain on the scene.
An urgent probe was launched into the most serious rail crash in almost 20 years.
Speaking this morning, man passengers said the collision felt like a bomb went off and they flew from their seats.
One traveller estimated 90 per cent of his carriage were seriously injured and unable to stand or move their neck.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Brett Byatt said: “I’d probably say 90% of the people on my carriage had injuries, I’d probably say from three to four of us were uninjured in a full carriage.
“Everyone else had either a serious wound that was bleeding profusely, or a situation where they couldn’t stand, or couldn’t move their neck, or I saw a woman’s snapped leg.”
He added there was a “boom” and then people “went flying into one another”.
Mr Byatt also slammed the way the trains were designed, he said: ” the way that they’re structured with seats, was probably the worst way it could have been structured for a train crash.”
Teresa Itabor was on her way to London to celebrate her birthday when her train crashed into another.
She said: “We left Bedford station and there was a massive bang… I didn’t know what was going on. My head hit the seat in front of me.”
- A train driver has died after two trains collided in Bedford at 5.15pm on Friday
- A major incident was declared with emergency services flooding the scene
- Both trains were headed for London St Pancras when one stopped due to a safety fault before it was rear-ended by another
- The crash has left 11 people very seriously injured with 90 injuries in total, according to the East of England Ambulance Service
- Horror footage appeared to show passengers covered in blood and on the floor
- Eyewitnesses recall hearing a “massive bang” and passengers “screaming for help”
- Commuters were urged not to travel as emergency responders dealt with the crash fallout
Passenger Pete Knapp told BBC News: “The front carriage collided into the front of another one and when I got up I saw all of the chairs everywhere and it felt like I’d been in a bomb explosion.
“When I got up I saw people with bloodied faces and people’s legs looked broken and there was smoke everywhere.
“I didn’t hear any explosions or slowing down of the train. Some people were spitting out blood. Lots of people are sat down. I can’t sit down because my back hurts so much.”
“I opened my eyes and that’s when I saw people on the floor with blood everywhere.”
Another passenger described an “almighty impact” as the moving train smashed into the stationary one.
Simon Bentley, who was travelling with his wife, told the BBC: “I think [we’re] actually just really relieved that we’re both still here. We’re very lucky and obviously very, very sad about what’s happened to the driver,”
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson has said King Charles “thoughts and sympathies are with the family of the deceased and with all those injured or affected by such a tragic incident”.
The driver who was killed was on the 16.40 Corby train heading to London St Pancras, the train drivers union Aslef has confirmed.
Dave Calfe, the union’s general secretary said the whole railway network will be “feeling the sadness and sorrow” of his death”.
Police remained near the scene as specialist teams look into the fatal crash.
Footage from inside the train appears to show passengers covered in blood and on the floor.
Both trains were headed for London with the first, a 3.50pm service from Nottingham to St Pancras, stopping with a safety fault.
It was running 18 minutes late when the 4.40pm Corby train, which had stopped at Bedford station two minutes earlier, slammed into the back of it.
Qunnie Wu, 24, a student at De Montfort University in Leicester, told The Sun about the chaos ensuing the crash.
She said: “Everyone involved was very badly hurt. Some people had blood coming from eyes, nose and mouth.
“People were screaming and crying. They were screaming for help. When I cried, a lot of people came to comfort me.
Uppingham College student Newton Xu, 18, was travelling to London after having completed his last A-level exam on Friday morning.
He said: “I was with my friend but I lost contact with him.
“He’s in hospital. He seemed to be quite injured. We are lucky.
“I was looking out the window and it was as if I just woke up and it was chaos.
“My friend was lying on the floor and couldn’t move. He’d hurt his leg. I hope he’s ok.”
Shocking photos showed a one of the driver’s compartments severely damaged while other images from the scene showed people jumping from the battered carriages to escape.
Some were seen with bandaged, bloodied heads as they waited to go to hospital with the most severely injured airlifted by five air ambulances.
Fire and rescue, police, and the ambulance service all descended on the scene and treated casualties in a field in what was a huge emergency response.
This is the most serious rail accident since the fatal Grayrigg derailment in 2007 which saw 89 injured and one death.
