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Train passenger Peter Knapp has described the aftermath of the fatal rail collision near Bedford. Describing the scene from the front carriage of the train that hit the other, he said passengers were thrown from their seats and several people appeared seriously injured.
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00:00I was on the front carriage, there was a sudden explosion of mist, I guess, and my head hit the
00:10seat in front, and then I got up and I saw seats everywhere, there were people on my lap, there
00:18were people in the aisle, people's faces all bloodied.
00:22It seemed that people's legs were broken, some elderly people were unresponsive, it seemed that some people were unable to
00:30speak, it looked to me as though there were some people in that front carriage who may be in a
00:37very bad way.
00:38I didn't know if it was a terrorist explosion, so I felt it was important to get off the train
00:46as quickly as possible, and so I was able to squeeze the doors open, and I got out of the
00:54train, I was the only person to be able to do so,
00:57and I went across the rails, of course, in shock, you just don't know what the best thing is to
01:02do.
01:03I got to the other side of the rails to see if there was an explosion, and I took some
01:09video footage of what was there, it appeared from then that it was a collision with another train.
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