Bethan Roper, from Wales, was hit by tree branch near Bath on way back from trip to LondonWoman killed on train 'leaned out of window below warning sticker'A woman sustained fatal head injuries while leaning out of a train window below a warning sticker, an accident report has found. Bethan Roper, 28, died near Twerton in Bath on 1 December. Her head was out the window of a door when it was struck by a tree branch while the Great Western Railway train was travelling at 85mph. The RAIB said its full investigation would examine the measures in place to “control the risks from persons leaning out of train windows, including the threat from vegetation”. In August 2016, Simon Brown, 24, a railway enthusiast, was killed while leaning out of the window of a Gatwick Express train near Balham in south London.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2019 13:58 UTC