‘I wasn’t tired,’ says tram disaster driver

A tram driver accused of having a ‘micro-sleep’ when his tram derailed killing seven passengers has insisted he has never felt tired at work. Alfred Dorris, 49, took a bend near Sandilands at 40mph when the speed limit was 12mph on the Croydon tramlink on 9 November 2016. Windows smashed and doors were ripped off as the tram fell on its side and those who died were thrown out and trapped between the overturned vehicle and the track. One passenger…