Brick smashes train driver's window near Nuneaton

A train driver had a lucky escape after a stone or brick tossed from a bridge smashed through his cab window near Nuneaton on Sunday evening.

The 8.22pm Birmingham New Street to Cambridge service was passing under a footbridge on the Birmingham side of Arley Tunnel, in Ansley,
near Nuneaton, when the object smashed through the driver’s side cab window, narrowly missing the driver.

A British Transport Police spokesman said: “This was a reckless act of vandalism that could easily have caused serious injury.

"We would appeal for anyone who knows anything about this incident to contact us.”

The incident was reported to police shortly before 9pm on Sunday evening and the train was terminated at Leicester station.

Anyone with information is asked to contact British Transport Police urgently on Freefone 0800 40 50 40 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 quoting log WW B4 of 13 May.

A British Transport Police spokesman said: “This was a reckless act of vandalism that could easily have caused serious injury."

That was the intention and until a clueless police force and courts realise that fact then this type of "attempted mass murder" will continue to go completely unpunished. I refuse to accept that someone who is able to a brick or rock through a train windscreen is not aware of the huge loss of life it could cause.