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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Joe Thomas

EXPLAINED: Kirkby train crash driver sent whatsapp message seconds before station smash | Vintage Vibes

The train driver who crashed a Merseyrail service into Kirkby station was using WhatsApp less than 30 seconds before the incident.

Phillip Hollis claimed he had been distracted by a fallen bag and a dropped Lucozade bottle as he approached the station last March.

But an investigation found he was using WhatsApp just moments earlier, leading a police chief to declare: “I have no doubt this will have caused him to become distracted.”

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