seven year old boy and his grandmother were killed in level crossing

A seven-year-old boy and his grandmother were killed on a poorly-lit level crossing where it was difficult to tell when a train was coming, an inquest was told today.
Jean Hoggart, 56, died alongside Mikey Dawson after they were hit by a train as they crossed the Robin Hood line in Bestwood village, Nottinghamshire.


Mrs Hoggart and her grandson were hit by the 5.45pm Worksop-Nottingham service, a two-car, 250-ton sprinter train.At the crossing, pedestrians can walk across a disused train track and a tramline before reaching an island in the middle.

Ian Morden witnessed the accident shortly after 6.20pm on November 22 last year.

He said: ‘I saw the bodies of two people. There was a train at high speed, but I didn’t see it coming. It was over in milliseconds.

‘The train was there and, when it had passed, there was a bang and there was no one there.

‘I went across the line and saw two people lying there and I rang the emergency services.’

At the time of the accident it emerged Mrs Hoggart had been visiting her sister Julia Hackett with her grandson, when the accident happened.

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