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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Neil Lancefield

Driver killed by passing train ‘may have left cab to urinate or smoke cigarette’

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A train driver struck and killed by a passing train may have left his cab to urinate or smoke a cigarette, an investigation has found.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said Michal Olesiak died on February 1 last year while the Southern train he had been driving was out of passenger service and stationary at a siding near West Worthing station, West Sussex.

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