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The driver who died following a train crash in Bedford had passed a red signal moments before the collision, accident investigators have said.
Shaun Burton, 60, was killed instantly when the Luton Airport Express he was driving ploughed into another East Midlands Railway train.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said in an interim report that Mr Burton’s train proceeded past a red signal near the scene of the crash in Elstow, near Bedford at 5.15pm on Friday.
It added that ‘it is not yet possible to say what indication the driver received’ from automatic warning system (AWS) equipment fitted to the train.
Fifty-three remain in hospital, including eight in a critical condition.
Driver Shaun Burton died in the crash between the two trains in Bedford on Friday afternoon