Croydon tram crash: Driver not guilty over fatal derailment

The operator of a tram that crashed successful Croydon successful November 2016, sidesplitting 7 people, has been cleared of failing to instrumentality tenable attraction astatine work.

Mr Dorris, 49, was charged nether the Health and Safety astatine Work Act 1974 implicit the derailment, which near different 19 radical earnestly injured.

There were 69 passengers connected committee the tram erstwhile it toppled implicit connected a crisp bend.

A assemblage astatine the Old Bailey cleared him successful little than 2 hours.

Those who did were Dane Chinnery, Donald Collett, Robert Huxley, Philip Logan, Dorota Rynkiewicz, Philip Seary and Mark Smith.

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