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  • Jun 20

    One driver dead, 89 injured as two EMR trains collide south of Bedford

    Emergency services declared a major incident after two East Midlands Railway passenger trains collided on a southbound line near Bedford on Friday evening, leaving one driver dead and 89 people injured, 11 of them very seriously.

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