Network Rail fined £6.7m for failings which led to fatal derailment
Three people died when the train hit a landslide amid bad weather near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, in August 2020.
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Three people died when the train hit a landslide amid bad weather near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, in August 2020.
Train driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died in the derailment near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, on August 12, 2020.
Network Rail has been fined £6.7 million after admitting health and safety failings over a rail crash that claimed three lives.
A British rail operator has been fined 6.7 million pounds ($8.4 million) after pleading guilty to safety failures that led to a derailment that killed three people and injured six others in Scotland three years ago. Network Rail was punished after admitting in High Court in Aberdeen, Scotland, that several lapses endangered passengers and rail workers when extreme rainfall washed rocks and gravel over the tracks and caused the train to derail and topple down a hill. The train driver, conductor and one passenger were killed in the Aug. 12, 2020 crash near the coastal town of Stonehaven.
Three people were killed and six were injured after the ScotRail service from Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street derailed after it hit a landslide following heavy rain in 2020.