Date: 17/07/2019

A rail firm has been fined £1m after a man died leaning out of a train window. Simon Brown, 24, was killed when he hit his head on a steel gantry on the side of the track while on the Gatwick Express in London in August 2016. In May, Govia Thameslink Railway admitted a health and safety breach because a sign saying not to lean out was not displayed clearly enough. The rail regulator has written to firms demanding 'immediate action' over trains with these types of windows. Judge Jeffrey Pegden QC, at Southwark Crown Court, said while there was a warning sticker on the door, it was 'jumbled' around other notices. 'The signage around the window was confusing,' he said, adding no risk assessment of the windows had been carried out.

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Simon Brown died after leaning from the window of a Gatwick Express train in August 2016.