This article recounts the harrowing experience of survivors Tony Jasper and Jan Vaughn on the fateful day of the Ladbroke Grove train crash, 25 years ago. It details the moments leading up to the collision, the terrifying sequence of events as the trains collided, and the desperate fight for survival.
Mourners look at flowers left for victims of the Ladbroke train crash which took place 25 years ago today Tony Jasper missed his train on October 5, 1999. Having recently divorced, the then 47-year-old IT consultant was commuting into London from a house he’d bought in Oxfordshire. His usual 7:10am train from Didcot Parkway was running late. A huge crowd of impatient commuters swarmed forward when it finally appeared.
‘I don’t remember much about those first few days’ she says. ‘It was just all a bit of a blur – there was a need to see what had actually happened, the impact, of the crash. But when you see aerial footage, it’s massively confronting. And, I had to give up watching the news after a while because it was actually too upsetting. ‘You just didn’t want to see it anymore.’ The survivors would soon find out that two trains had been involved in the crash.
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