The World - News from March 6, 1989

The driver of a British passenger train that crashed into the rear of another train and killed five people disclosed that he went through a red light before the collision, but there is evidence he tried to stop, a British Rail official said. Gordon Pettitt, general manager of British Rail’s southern region, said investigators found signs of “severe brake application” by David Morgan before his train rammed the other train outside London. Morgan was one of 94 people injured, 31 of whom were hospitalized. Pettitt said investigators found no evidence of sabotage and that the signaling equipment appeared to be working normally.