Overview

• Testimony on June 3 revealed that a radio order to stay off the tracks was issued just two seconds before Sgt Graham Saville was struck at Balderton.
• Coroner heard that control room staff only contacted Network Rail to halt trains 20 seconds before the collision that fatally injured Sgt Saville.
• Records show Patient C first called East Midlands Ambulance Service 21 minutes before the officer’s injuries, claiming an overdose and later sustaining electrocution burns.
• Joanne Saville read a pen portrait describing her husband as a “fantastic” father-of-two and a compassionate, calm-under-pressure officer.
• The two-week inquest continues to examine emergency service response times and coordination on the evening of August 24, 2023.