Issued: 01.02.08
At: 3:30pm
For immediate release

Firefighters Free Driver From Train Crash – Updat

 

At 6.40am today Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service attended a train crash in
Barrow-on-Soar. Crews from Loughborough and Syston Fire and Rescue Stations
attended the incident along with specialist Technical Rescue crews from Southern
Fire and Rescue Station.

Firefighters arrived to find a train had hit debris that had fallen onto the track severely
damaging the front of the train, trapping the driver.

Firefighters used a platform to access the train drivers cab that had been severely
crushed back in the collision. Specialist saws were then used to cut through the
metal structure of the train and hydraulic cutting and spreading tools were used to
push the metal back away from the driver who was then released from the cab and
taken to hospital.

Firefighters also used hydraulic cutting equipment to release the driver of a HGV lorry
that had been involved in the incident.

Howard Robinson, Director of Community Safety said:

‘Due to our highly skilled and experienced firefighters working under pressure
in a confined space, the train driver was released.
This incident went very smoothly considering its complicated nature and I
think that this was a credit to all Fire and Rescue crews and emergency
service workers who attended’

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Notes to News Desk

Contact Information
For more information please contact:
Corporate Communications
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Tel 0116 287 2241

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