The World - News from July 27, 1986

A four-car train filled with vacationers plowed into a van at an unmanned rail crossing in northeast England, killing nine people and injuring 52, police said. The train, traveling from the seaside city of Bridlington to Hull, was carrying nearly 300 people when it rammed the light truck at a grade crossing in the village of Lockington and three cars jumped the track. The two people in the truck, a cattle dealer and his 10-year-old foster son, were critically injured. Transport Secretary John Moore said an inquiry will be held on the rail accident, the worst in Britain in two years.