Alfred Dorris, 49, the driver in the Croydon tram disaster, has been found not guilty at the Old Bailey of failing to take “reasonable care” of the health and safety of himself and his passengers.
Mr Dorris had been accused of going three times the speed he was supposed to be doing before his tram derailed on a sharp curve at Sandilands in south London. The prosecution alleged Dorris may have had a “micro-sleep” or become disoriented before the crash on November 9, 2016.
Mr Dorris, from Beckenham, south-east London, denied a single charge of failing to take reasonable care at work under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
On Monday, Mr Justice Fraser sent the jury out at the Old Bailey to start deliberating on its verdict.
The people who died were: Dane Chinnery, 19, Philip Seary, 57, Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, Robert Huxley, 63, and Philip Logan, 52, all from New Addington, and Donald Collett, 62, and Mark Smith, 35, both from Croydon.
