Selby crash driver questioned by police

The driver of the Land Rover which caused the Selby rail crash is being interviewed by police.

The man, who saw his vehicle career onto the East Coast mainline, is at Goole Police Station, East Yorkshire.

He called the emergency services moments before the crash to tell them that his car and trailer was blocking the line by the M62.

A police spokesman said: "He is being interviewed at the moment about the road accident which was the prologue to the train crash."

The driver is thought to have spoken to the operator and shouted that a train was coming, but could only watch as it ploughed through his car and trailer before coming off the tracks.

"At 6.12am this morning we had a call from a man who said he had been in a road accident," said a spokesman for North Yorkshire Police.

"He was on the M62 going west, not far from the A1. The vehicle, he said, had left the M62, gone down an embankment and the vehicle was on the railway line.

"While the operator was speaking to him we heard him shout: 'The train's coming', and then there was a bang.

"The man, who was slightly injured, said the train has just crashed through his Land Rover which was towing a trailer with a car on it. The train has continued and the vehicle was not on the line.

"At this point 999 calls started coming in saying a train had derailed and that was the origins of the major incident we are now dealing with," the spokesman said.