Investigators probe deadly Bedford railway crash

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Shaun Burton, 60, has been named as the train driver killed in a fatal collision in Bedford on Friday. As of Saturday morning, 28 people were still in hospital, nine of them in a critical condition. Burton was driving the Corby to London train that crashed into the back of a train heading from Nottingham to London. Specialist investigators are looking into what caused the collision, which was unusual as it happened on an upgraded mainline with modern signalling and fairly ordinary weather. There were no train accident deaths in the UK between 2008 and 2019. Since 2020 there have been five in three separate crashes.