From the archive: ‘A body drifted past the window’: surviving the Ladbroke Grove train crash

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some
classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the
authors. This week, from 2019: On 5 October 1999, two trains
collided at speed in west London, killing both drivers and 29
passengers. Barrister Greg Treverton-Jones, who survived the crash
and worked on the harrowing inquiry, pieced together what went
wrong Warning: this article contains graphic descriptions of injury
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