Bedford train crash: Getting legal advice and support if you’ve been injured

The physical and psychological impact of a major incident often continues long after the immediate aftermath. Accessing the right support is crucial to aiding your recovery and regaining your independence.

A complete care package could include:

• Specialist rehabilitation
• Psychological support for trauma, anxiety or PTSD
• Financial support
• A case manager to advocate for you
• Medical aids, equipment and suitable accommodation

If you were physically or psychologically injured you may be entitled to pursue an injury compensation claim, depending on the circumstances of the incident and the findings of the ongoing investigations.

Fletchers Solicitors is already helping a number of passengers who were involved – ensuring they receive answers throughout the investigation, access to the right rehabilitation and care, and know all the options available to them.

Compensation can assist with a wide range of losses and expenses, including:

• Medical treatment and rehabilitation
• Loss of earnings
• Care and support needs
• Travel and recovery-related expenses
• Psychological injuries and trauma
• Childcare costs
• Domestic services

As well as helping you financially, our solicitors can ensure you get the answers you need about how and why this happened, and identify lessons to prevent another incident in future.

A complex investigation is underway, involving the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, British Transport Police and a coroner’s inquest into the death of the train driver, Shaun Burton.

Depending on the circumstances the crash may also result in fines or prosecutions by the Office of Rail and Road regulatory body, or lead to a wider public inquiry to review the safety of British railways.

This multi-agency investigation should rightly scrutinise all the circumstances which led to the crash, to ensure something like this cannot happen again.

But those affected by this incident should remain at the centre of our focus.

For families involved in a major transport incident the process can feel overwhelming; they face a long physical and emotional recovery, and must have meaningful support which shows them they are not alone in navigating complex systems and procedures.

Behind the investigations, reports and recommendations are lives that have been changed forever, ensuring they get the justice they deserve must remain a priority throughout this process and beyond.

Our Personal Injury and Public Inquiry teams have decades worth of experience in supporting individuals through highly complex and traumatic incidents, including victims caught up in the Southport attack, the Nottingham attack and the Liverpool Chandlers Wharf crane collapse.