Seven people were killed and 19 seriously injured in the 2016 crash, as the driver, Alfred Dorris, drove more than three times the speed limit, the Old Bailey heard on Wednesday.
Passengers were"flung around" during a tram crash in 2016 - likened by one survivor as being inside a"washing machine" - which killed seven people and injured 51, a court has heard.
The seven passengers who were killed were Dane Chinnery, Donald Collett, Robert Huxley, Philip Logan, Dorothy Rynkiewicz, Philip Sealy and Mark Smith.The 49-year-old denies the charge that he allegedly failed to take reasonable care at work - of himself and passengers - under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
One traveller started to shout at him, to"wake up", to which the defendant responded when opening his eyes:"I must have passed out."Joseph McKoy, a passenger, recalled Mr Dorris asking:"What's happened? I must have blacked out." Mr Ashley-Norman went on to say Tram 2551"tipped on its side, causing those inside to be flung around as though, as one survivor put it, they were inside a washing machine."The prosecutor went on to describe the moment it happened, citing one passenger saying that there was a"moment of silence before the screaming and shouting".
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