The crossing
By: Christina James
Series: A DI Yates novel
Publisher: Salt
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cromer, Norfolk
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781784630416; 9781784630553
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Liability for railroad accidents; Police; Tim Yates (Fictitious character); Railroad accidents; Fiction
Description: It is a foggy day. Ruby Grummett, a railway crossing keeper, opens the gates for a council lorry, thinking that the Skegness train has been cancelled, but it comes looming through the mists and hits the lorry, which is flung into the air. The train is derailed, one man is killed and another seriously injured, and Ruby's house is destroyed. Is Ruby to blame for the accident, or was it caused by the railway company's failure to warn that the train was late?
Notes: "In the wreckage everything goes to hell"--Cover.