Passenger of Bedford crash says 90% of people on his carriage were injured

A survivor of the Bedford train crash has told how bodies were flung across the carriages, leaving people with broken bones and deep wounds after the rush hour collision on Friday night. Brett Byatt, a teacher from Bedford, was onboard the East Midlands Railway (EMR) service that rammed into another slower travelling train resulting in a crash which killed the driver, left 89 with injuries and 33 needing urgent hospital treatment. Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, Byatt said the train wasn’t going at full speed and estimated they were only about five minutes into their journey when the collision happened. “The people in first class ended up with stomach and rib injuries, because they went into the tables they have in first class, and EMR trains, the way that they’re structured with seats, was probably the worst way it could have been structured for a train crash. “They (the seats) face each other in the three by three and the two by three, and … when people flew into one another, the seats that they were on, like, broke backwards into the people behind them.” Byatt, a teacher from Bedford, said he believes that 90% of passengers on his carriage were injured. …