Train driver hailed a hero
Published: September 26, 2006
A PASSENGER has hailed the driver of the train that struck a car, killing one man, as a hero.
Maree-Louise Kernick, of Bedlington, Northumberland, said she owes her life to the train driver who managed to keep his cool as the carriages derailed.
The 31-year-old was travelling from Leeds to York and was just ten seats away from where the car hit.
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She was in first class with just a few other people.
The mother-of-one said: “It was pitch black but I saw something at the side of the train then all of a sudden there was just a massive bang and the train just lifted.
“It was just banging along and it was going so fast and I felt it starting to tip. All the doors flew open and bags and cases were flying around. That’s when I thought ‘oh no this really isn’t good’. I did feel scared.
“I don’t know how the train driver kept the train upright.
She added: “We were miles off the track. We had derailed quite a long way.
I had hit my head off the window and there was a big lump.
“The train driver came out and said, ‘I have hit him, I have hit a car. I have been driving for 25 years but that time I thought I was a goner’,”
The passengers had to wait for emergency services and they were moved into the back of the train as there was a diesel spillage in the front and it was feared that there could be a fire.
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