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RAIB: Annual Report 2021 (published 2022)
Corporate report
Rail Accident Investigation Branch report for the operational period ending 31 December 2021.

Safety digest 02/2022: Near miss with track workers and collision with a tree on the line at Uphill Junction
Independent report
Near miss with track workers and collision with a tree on the line at Uphill Junction, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 14 January 2022.

RAIB has today released its report into a runaway of a road-rail vehicle at Belle Isle Junction, 16 May 2021.
Overspeeding incident at Peterborough station
Press release
Overspeeding incident at Peterborough station, Cambridgeshire, 17 April 2022.

Safety digest 01/2022: Passenger trapped in doors at Wood Street station
Independent report
Passenger trapped in doors and dragged at Wood Street station, north-east London, 14 January 2022.

Track worker struck by a train near Chalfont & Latimer station, Buckinghamshire, 15 April 2022.

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