Moment Croydon tram crash driver is arrested by cops on suspicion of manslaughter after doing 50 on a 12mph bend
THE is the moment cops arrested the driver of the tram that crashed killing seven.
He was held for suspected manslaughter after doing up to 50mph on a 12mph bend.
A woman and six men were killed in South London as the tram careered off rails and skidded on to its side.
More than 50 were injured.
A dad living near the scene of the carnage in East Croydon captured the 42-year-old driver’s arrest on video.
He said: “He did not seem physically hurt. But his face looked pained.”
A teenager was the first of the dead to be named yesterday.
Crystal Palace fan Dane Chinnery, 19, had been on his way to work at a drainage firm.
The driver, who lives in Beckenham, South London, told police he “blacked out” just before the horror just after 6am on Wednesday.
His two-car tram is feared by investigators to have been close to its 50mph top speed — four times the limit at the fork in the tracks where it crashed.
He was still at the scene when cops seized him almost three hours after the horror, which left some survivors having to have limbs amputated.
The witness who filmed his arrest from his back window said: “Two or three policemen led out a man in a Tramlink uniform and put him in a car.
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“I could see his face from about 20ft away. He was a big guy about 6ft tall.
“He had a pained expression. He did not look drunk or anything like that.
“It looked like the officers were calling for a van to take him away and were holding him in the car.
“He was in there for about 15 minutes. Then the van arrived about 9am.
“He was handed over and led towards it. He wasn’t limping or anything.”
The shopworker went on: “An officer looked as though he was reading him his rights before loading him inside. He was speaking to him for about a minute.
“From his gestures I could see something serious was going on. Then they drove him away.”
The driver was quizzed for around 12 hours at a nick.
Last night he was free after police probing the crash bailed him until May.
