Passed a partially-obscured red light and smashed head-on, with aĬlosing speed of I3omph, into a London-bound First Great Western express Shortly after leaving Paddington station, a local Thames train They culminated in the tragedy early on October 5, 1999. 'catalogue of failures' spanned several years and flowed from Rail union leaders said the pounds 4111 should be taken from theīonuses of senior Network Rail managers, otherwise it would be funded byĪn earlier hearing at Blackfriars Crown Court was told how a

Mr Groves also called on the Government to introduce a new 'The worrying thing is they still work' for Network Gross negligence that killed our beloved daughter Juliet and 30 others. He also said he did not believe the fine was high enough.ĭenman and Maureen Groves, who lost their daughter Juliet in theĬrash, said: 'There are those who should have been brought to court Survivors and their families and they failed the rail industry.' They failed those killed and their families, they failed the 'The board of Railtrack, its management and its professionalsįailed. Seven years to have an apology offered to us. Over seven years to get here and we are angry that it has taken over Survivor Jonathan Duckworth said: 'We are angry it has taken Tragedy, and concerns that those at the head of the company had not been Taken seven-and-a-half years for Network Rail to apologise for the Which was the body in existence at the time.ĭespite the record size of the penalty, there was anger that it had Network Rail shoulders the fine as the successor to Railtrack, November 2000, when four people were killed. Topping the pounds 3.5m it faced following the Hatfield derailment in It is the largest fine Network Rail has ever been forced to pay, What the judge described as 'incompetent management and inadequate Unnecessary' terrorist attack, and occurred against a background of The disaster was likened in court to a 'senseless and

Safety failures leading to the crash, which killed 31 people and injured The company was fined for the 'systemic and unacceptable' Was fined pounds 4111 for its part in the tragedy. Yesterday called for a new corporate manslaughter law, as Network Rail THE bereaved families and survivors of the Paddington rail disaster

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