Driver is in hospital, so I do hope he makes a full recovery.
Given that it’s been made public that he is also being charged, I am jumping to the assumption that some driver error is also involved.
Lorry driver charged after crash on railway line crash at Gretna - BBC News
Could have been worse though, adding in a train to the mix.
Night trunk and 
Indeed! For the younger element out there who may not remember 2001, this is how bad it could have been been
Hart’s insurance company tried to wriggle out of its obligations but lost.
I didn’t know about that part, but it doesn’t surprise me, anything they can do to avoid paying out, they’re going to do it.
Hart himself is a disgusting specimen of mankind, even ten years after the crash he claimed it wasn’t his fault, it was “fate”
Agreed, vile POS. IT and its insurance company tried to claim there were two separate incidents: Hart’s vehicle landing on the track and being hit by the express and then a few yards away two trains crashing into one another. The High court claim, effectively against the taxpayer, was not finally settled until 2010. This then left it to Railtrack and to sue Hart and its insurance company in 2012.
Both train drivers and two additional crew were among the victims. As is often the custom railway employees killed in accidents are often remembered by the renaming of locomotives in their memory.
Renewed interest in this was sparked by it being featued in the DCPC regarding falling asleep at the wheel. Strangely it did not feature the Hixon level crossing crash which involved an abnormal load getting stuck.
I wasn’t aware of the Hixon crash.
DCPCs are each custom creations of that particular training provider so there is no “standard content”; the one I created for “Drivers Hours” includes the Selby crash.
Another one, a “Bridge Strikes” course, contains two examples related to the railway: Howden, East Yorks, which was actually a bridge, and, damage to overhead cables at Grantham - not a bridge, but Network rail included the info in their pack and the numbers are sufficiently significant to warrant inclusion (>£1 million pound bill for seven hours disruption). It’s difficult to see where a tragedy like Hixon would fit into a specific category, apart from one dedicated to abnormal loads.