Train collides with van after driver rolls onto crossing

CCTV footage has revealed the moment a train crashed into a van after a reckless delivery driver pulled on to a level crossing and opened its gates by hand. William Backhouse managed to escape unharmed after the Northern Rail train ploughed into the front of his van at 49mph at Braystones station in Cumbria. The 30-year-old had arrived at the road crossing at the rail station but failed to spot the approaching locomotive. Video shows the train then smashing into the Ford Transit leaving the front left of the van destroyed and the bonnet crumple