The six passengers and four railway employees killed in the Selby train disaster were unlawfully killed, an inquest jury decided today.
The victims, all men, were killed on February 28, 2001, when a GNER express train was derailed and collided with a fully-laden freight train travelling in the opposite direction.
The jury of five men and six women, sitting at Harrogate's Majestic Hotel, heard that the accident was caused when Gary Hart's Land Rover plunged off the M62 motorway on to the East Coast main line near Great Heck, triggering the disaster.
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