Seer Green rail crash - Interviews with survivors

Title

Seer Green rail crash - Interviews with survivors

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Dec 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:05:01

Description

Report on the Seer Green rail crash (11/12/81) in which four people died. Begins with a first-person account by the reporter, who witnessed the bodies of the driver and a student being brought to Wexham Park Hospital. Also includes interviews with crash survivor Norman Wilkes, who said he was trapped for about half an hour; Mark Gabriel, who was travelling on the train with his brother, Nicky, and friend, Neil Hopkinson. His mother June is also interviewed about the condition of her son Nicky, who needed his jaw wired together following the accident. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Norman Wilkes; Mark Gabriel; June Gabriel

Keywords

Accidents; Deaths; British Rail; Trains; Buckinghamshire; Railway accidents; Seer Green; Wexham Park Hospital; Nicky Gabriel; Neil Hopkinson

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