More than 50 remain in hospital with eight fighting for their lives days after Bedford train crash that killed driver

Fifty-three people remain in hospital with eight fighting for their lives days after a train crash in Bedford.

More than 100 people have received medical treatment since Friday, when a train smashed into the back of another on the same lines just after 5pm.

Shaun Burton, 60, was killed instantly when the Luton Airport Express he was driving ploughed into the other service. 

Tributes poured in for the ‘dedicated’ civil servant on Sunday and his family is being supported by specialist officers from BTP. 

Police confirmed today that 53 people remain in hospital, though they said numbers are ‘changing frequently’.

The East Midlands Railway (EMR)

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