The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has said it will prosecute Transport for London and the driver and operator of a crashed tram in Croydon in 2016 for alleged health and safety failings.
If the prosecution is successful, it would overturn a jury verdict in an inquest in July that determined the crash was accidental, which was met with fury from the victims’ families. The tragedy is considered the worst to have occurred on a British tramway for more than 90 years.
