The Selby Rail Crash: Episode 271
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The 999 operator screams out: "Oh my God!" as the man swears, unable to comprehend quite what he is seeing. The screeching of brakes can be heard as the man tells the operator the train has "gone straight through my Land Rover". Moments later he speaks again: "I just got out in time as the train came through. Someone is going to get killed...
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- https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/oh-my-god-there-s-a-train-coming-6335394.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/07/selby.railtravel
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-56085631
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_rail_crash
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/14/selby.railtravel3
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361354/Selby-crash-10th-anniversary-Driver-Gary-Hart-feels-accountable.html
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
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| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 271 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam. |
| 0:38.0 | The 999 operator would never forget the call. The man was desperately trying to explain what had happened and where he was. |
| 0:46.0 | The operator said, I'm going to need a better location than that to which the man replied, but there's a train coming. |
| 0:53.0 | Today's story from Yorkshire is another tale of just how another ordinary day became something very very different |
| 1:01.0 | after an incident on the M62 motorway. |
| 1:04.0 | But for ourselves a huge anchored on my supporters at Patreon, especially those of you listening to the live recording this evening, |
| 1:11.0 | that new members are Tom Reed, Michaela Gibbs, Sandy May, Nafisa Jamil, Kelly Cooper, Thomas Power, |
| 1:20.0 | your support is really appreciated, thank you very so much. |
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| 1:35.0 | For example, some people think you should wait until things are unbearable to go to therapy, but that isn't true. |
| 1:42.0 | Therapies are told to utilise before things get worse and they can help avoid those lows. |
| 1:48.0 | Another that we've no doubt all heard is that therapy is only for so-called crazy people, not at all. |
| 1:55.0 | Therapy doesn't mean something's wrong with you, it means you recognise all humans have emotions, |
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