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On 6 November 2004 at 18:12 GMT, the 17:35 First Great Western departure from London Paddington to Plymouth hit a stationary car at an automatic level crossing, located close to the rural Berkshire village of Ufton Nervet.
The rear of the 220m HST set came to rest approximately 100 metres beyond the crossing with all eight passenger carriages derailing. Six people were killed in the crash, including the car's driver, the driver of the train, and four of its passengers. One passenger subsequently died in a hospital, resulting in a total of seven fatalities. Approximately 300 people were on board at the time of the incident, with around half of these injured, including twelve serious injuries. Eleven people had to be cut free from the wreckage.
The accident, investigation and necessary repairs blocked the main railway route between London and the West Country until the morning of 16 November, operating under temporary speed restrictions to allow the bedding in of ballast. In the meantime inter-city trains operated via SwindonSwindon is a town of Wiltshire, England, located in the South West of the UK (between London and Bristol). Easily accessible from junctions 15 and 16 of the M4 motorway, or by rail (Swindon Station). Swindon has a population of 180,000 (and rising). It is and WestburyWestbury is a town and civil parish in the west of the English county of Wiltshire. Location Westbury is situated some 12 miles south east of the city of Bath and about four miles south of Trowbridge. It is an important junction point on the railway netwo and local services were replaced by rail and busThis article is about the form of transport. See computer bus or electrical bus for the use of the term in computing and electronics respectively, or places like Bus, Pas-de-Calais and Bus-Saint-Remy. The Bus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulu' shuttles.
In BritainThe word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK): i. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (from 1927), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801- 1927) or the United Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1707- 1801)., fully automatic "half barrier" level crossings are used on quiet roads where rail linespeed is less than 100MPH. These are unmonitored and are designed so that a car cannot get accidentally trapped behind a forward barrier. This also allows a person to attempt to "zig zag" around the barriers onto the track, usually in an attempt to save time. On busier roads, bridgeThis article is about the edifice. For other meanings, see Bridge (disambiguation). suspended deck compression arch bridges A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river or other body of water, or any other physical obs or tunnelSwitzerland subway. canal tunnel. A tunnel is an underground passage. When designed for use by traffic, it may be called an underpass . It may be for pedestrians and/or cyclists, for general road traffic, for motor vehicles only, for rail traffic, or fors are preferred, or where this would be prohibitively expensive, a full barrier crossing is built. These are always monitored by CCTVClosed-circuit television CCTV , as a collection surveillance cameras doing video surveillance is the use of television cameras for surveillance. It differs from broadcast television in that all components are directly linked via cables or other direct me, or less often in person, and the facing barriers are only closed once all cars have cleared the line.