An inquest jury heard today (tues) how a man was c

An inquest jury heard today (tues) how a man was crushed
beneath the wheels of a Bakerloo line train in a bizarre
‘accident.

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Southwark Coroners Court was told that BT engineer
Selvin Robinson, 24, was sitting between tracks on the Bakerloo
line at Lambeth North on December 29 when the 9.

30pm train rolled
into the station.

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death after
hearing no evidence as to why Mr Robinson, of Crutchley Road,
Catford, came to be sitting on the tracks.

His brother Eric Robinson told the coroner, Selina Shippey,
(corr) that the young engineer was a ‘fit, healthy and happy’ man
who was not suffering from depression.

The only witness to the horrific incident was the shocked train
driver Phillip Everett (corr).

He told the inquest: ‘I came around the curve in the tracks
to Lambeth North station and saw what I thought was a bundle
of clothes between the lines.

‘Then I saw that it was a man resting his head on the
negative current rail.

‘I immediately released the Dead Man’s Handle,’ he said.

The court was told that this handle was kept squeezed
throughout journeys and if released the train was brought to
an emergency halt.

Mr Everett continued: ‘I could not stop the train in
time.

‘It was very, very distressing – horrible!’ he said.

PC Martin Harper who arrived on the scene soon after
the accident told the inquest that Mr Robinson was still
alive but stuck under the wheels of the train.

Pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd explained to the distraught
family that the multiple injuries which led to Mr Robinson’s death
were centred around the head and he would have lost consciousness
very quickly.

Ambulancemen rushed him to St Thomas’s Hospital but he died
in intensive care early the next morning.

Mrs Shippey offered her deepest condolences to the family
and offered her sympathy to the driver.

‘It must have been an horrific experience,’ she said.

ENDS