A driver who derailed an Overground train after falling asleep at the controls has been jailed.
Erkan Mehmet, 44, and of Middle Street, Waltham Abbey, pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of the railway at Inner London Crown Court and on Friday, July 7. He was sentenced him to sixteen weeks in prison.
On 12 October 2021, Mehmet was driving a London Overground train to Enfield Town. As the train entered platform two, it failed to stop and crashed into the buffers causing the front carriage to derail.
