Editing Selby rail crash (section)

{{Short description|2001 rail crash in North Yorkshire, England}}
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| name                = Selby rail crash
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| image_alt           = A photograph of an active railway line in a cutting passing underneath a motorway. The cutting's embankments on each side are grassy and steep.
| caption             = A train at the site of the crash in 2018, traveling north on the [[East Coast Main Line]] underneath the [[M62 motorway]]. The car crashed down the embankment on the right of the image.
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| date                = 28 February 2001
| time                = 06:13 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]
| location            = [[Great Heck]], Selby, North Yorkshire
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| country             = England
| line                = [[East Coast Main Line]]
| operator            = {{ubl|[[Great North Eastern Railway]]|[[Freightliner Group|Freightliner]]}}
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| service             = {{ubl|04:45 [[Newcastle railway station|Newcastle]] to [[London King's Cross railway station|London King's Cross]]|05:00 [[Immingham Docks]] to [[Eggborough power station]]}}
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| cause               = Obstruction on line
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| trains              = 2
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| deaths              = 10
| injuries            = 82
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| footnotes           = [[List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom|List of UK rail accidents by year]]
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The '''Selby rail crash''' (also known as the '''Great Heck rail crash''') was a railway accident that occurred on 28 February 2001 near [[Great Heck]], Selby, North Yorkshire when a passenger train collided with a car which had crashed down a motorway embankment onto the railway line. The passenger train then collided with an oncoming freight train. Ten people died, including the drivers of the two trains, and 82 were injured. It remains the worst rail disaster of the 21st century in the United Kingdom.

The driver of the car, Gary Hart, was convicted of ten counts of [[causing death by dangerous driving]] and sentenced to five years in prison after a jury found that he had fallen asleep while driving. Hart's insurers paid out £30&nbsp;million in claims. The [[Health and Safety Executive]] investigated the accident, and made several recommendations, including research into the [[crashworthiness]] of rail vehicles. The [[Health and Safety Commission]] and [[Highways Agency]] created working groups to investigate the risks of road vehicle incursions onto railways. The [[Department for Transport]] issued a report containing guidance for assessing and mitigating the risks identified by the working groups.