Voyager Derailed

A Virgin Voyager has derailed at 100 mph after hitting a car, in a frightening echo of Selby and Ufton Nervet disasters.

Fortunately this time the train came to a stand with the derailed leading vehicle still upright and in line, and nobody on board was injured. Sadly the driver of the car was killed.

While it don't know the full details of the track layout in the area, both the Selby and Ufton Nervet crashes involved the derailed leading vehicle hitting a set of points at speed which precipitated the derailment of the whole train with multiple fatalities in both cases. Perhaps the only difference this time was that the collision happed on plain line.

At the moment it's not know how the car came to be on the track.