{"id":54992,"date":"2026-06-20T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-we-know-about-the-bedford-train-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:34:53","slug":"what-we-know-about-the-bedford-train-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-we-know-about-the-bedford-train-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about the Bedford train crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">A train driver has been killed and 100 people injured following a train crash in Bedford on Friday, according to the police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Of the injured, 28 people are in hospital, with nine in a critical condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The 16:40 train from Corby collided with the 15:50 service from Nottingham. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">BBC correspondent Jo Black in Bedford explains what we know about the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cy8dy2pr8ymt\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 dGfqry\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cp3xl7zw4gyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A train driver has been killed and 100 people injured following a train crash in Bedford on Friday, according to the police. Of the injured, 28 people are in hospital, with nine in a critical condition. The 16:40 train from Corby collided with the 15:50 service from Nottingham. BBC correspondent Jo Black in Bedford explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[15643,327,524],"class_list":["post-54992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-bedford","tag-crash","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54994,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54992\/revisions\/54994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}