Bedford train crash passengers describe how collision unfolded

Passengers aboard two trains that collided near Bedford on Friday afternoon have told the BBC of the panic and injuries they witnessed in the aftermath of the crash. One person, a train driver, died and 89 others were injured to varying degrees, officials say. The East of England Ambulance Service said 11 people had suffered "very serious" injuries, and a further 22 had been seriously injured. "There was a woman in front of me that had completely snapped her leg, and there was a woman behind her - they were sort of on top of each other, she couldn't move because of her back," passenger Brett Byatt told the BBC. "There was a guy further down the carriage that couldn't move his neck, he was laid on the floor and people were holding him still." Passengers say one of the trains had stopped on the tracks just south of Bedford when the second crashed into it at around 17:15. "[We] felt the train brake really hard which seemed odd," said Simon Bentley, who had been travelling from Kettering to London with his wife. Brett Byatt, a teacher from Bedford, said: "I knew something was up because the train never slows down from Bedford to Luton - and I felt it brake." East Midlands Railway (EMR)

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