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Article: Balfour Beatty and Network Rail fined GBP 13.5m over Hatfield crash

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October 8, 2005
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Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary

TWO firms were yesterday fined a total of GBP 13.5 million for their parts in the Hatfield rail disaster, which a judge described as one of the worst examples of sustained industrial negligence he had ever seen.

Mr Justice Mackay said 750,000 passengers' lives had been put at risk due to the broken rail which caused the derailment of a London to Leeds express on the east coast main line. The crash killed four people and injured 102.

Balfour Beatty, responsible for track maintenance at the time, was fined GBP 10 million and Network Rail was fined GBP 3.5 million for breaking safety rules before the crash in October 2000. The fines are an English ...

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