Network Rail fined for safety breaches

Network Rail has been fined £1 million after it breached health and safety laws at a level crossing where two teenage girls were killed.

Olivia Bazlinton, 14, and Charlotte Thompson, 13, were hit by a train in December 2005 as they crossed the tracks at Elsenham station footpath crossing in Essex.

Judge David Turner QC, sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court, fined the authority responsible for the UK’s railway network £1m and ordered it to pay £60,000 costs.

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At a hearing in January, Network Rail admitted failing to carry out a sufficient risk assessment, failing to properly control protective measures at the level crossing, and failing to prevent the girls from being exposed to the risks which led to their deaths.

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