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GREAT HECK, England (AP) —
With a high-speed passenger train
bearing down on his Land Rover
stuck on the train tracks, the frantic
motorist called an emergency num
ber, but it was too late. “The train’s
coming!” he shouted into his mobile
phone —just before it hit.
In a bizarre wreck that left at least
13 dead and more than 70 injured, the
passenger train smashed into the
Land Rover and a trailer it was tow
ing — which themselves had tum
bled down an embankment and onto
the tracks from a roadway above —
then plowed into an oncoming
freight train on a parallel track.
“The carriage roof was torn off
and I was flung down the length of
the corridor,” said passenger Laurie
Gunson of the northern city of York,
one of dozens of dazed survivors of
Wednesday’s crash outside the vil
lage of Great Heck, about 200 miles
north of London.
Rescuers were met with a chaotic
scene. Sheared-off undercarriages
and mangled rail cars were strewn
across a muddy field, and crews had
to use cranes to pry open the twisted
cars. Coal carried by the freight train
was scattered about in heaps.
The last survivor was pulled out
five hours after the early-morning
crash, but as night fell, bodies were
still being retrieved from the wreck
age, and police said the death toll
could rise.
Work crews brought in generators
and lights to work through the freez
ing night. The smell of diesel fuel
hung in the air.
“It is a tremendous tragedy, and a
huge mess,” said Police Superinten
dent Tony Thompson. It could take
weeks to reopen the rail line, he said.
Prime Minister Tony Blair
promised lawmakers “the fullest
possible inquiry” into the crash,
Britain’s fourth fatal train wreck in
3 1/2 years and the latest blow to its
troubled rail system.
After a full day, it was still not cer
tain how many people had been on
the train. Thompson, the police su
perintendent, said 144 passengers had
booked tickets, but there could have
been more, or fewer actually aboard.
Police said the driver of the Land
Rover had called Britain’s equivalent
of 911 just before the crash. “While
the operator was speaking to him we
heard him shout: ‘The train’s com
ing!’ and then there was a bang,” a
police spokesman said.
The driver, who was not identi
fied, was being interviewed by po
lice. “He’s completely devastated
knowing what happened as a result
of his vehicle going onto the tracks,”
said Thompson.
Investigators were photographing
the wreckage from all angles, and
searching for a data recorder that had
been aboard the freight train. They
were also checking the condition of
guardrails on the M62 highway
above, from which the Land Rover
plunged.
“We believe there were crash bar
riers in the area and our examiners will
look at all aspects of this incident,”
said Detective Superintendent Nick
Bracken of British Transport Police.
Carole Hutchinson, 45, who works
near the crash site, said the weather
was bitter Wednesday morning.
“It was snowing badly, although it
wasn’t settling, it was heavy and not
far off a blizzard.”
Someone had placed a bouquet
of daffodils, wrapped in pink paper,
on the brick-and-stone bridge above
the tracks.
Passengers described screaming
and shouting as the passenger train,
traveling at 120 mph, careered off the
tracks and the lights went out.
“I held onto the table in front of me
and then there was a huge impact. My
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Madurese refugees await evac
Indonesian security
forces control riots
SAMPIT, Indonesia (AP) —
Thousands of Madurese refugees
huddled under plastic sheeting
Wednesday, waiting to flee a
deadly rampage by Dayaks whose
campaign to drive them from parts of Borneo has been
largely successful.
With most Madurese settlers in Central Kalimantan
province either gone or waiting to go, Indonesians began
asking whether their government's weak response might
spur similar violence elsewhere.
“Whoever wants to create trouble now knows that
they can and will get away with it,” said political ana
lyst Dede Oetomo.
After 11 days of what critics called a woefully inad
equate response to the Dayak rampage that killed at least
469 people, Indonesian security forces patrolled Borneo
island Wednesday with orders to shoot rioters on sight.
“We are now taking tougher action against rioters
and other troublemakers,” said regional deputy police
chief Col. Muhamad Jatmiko.
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about 125 people.
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