Charlie Matthews
Age: 72
Summary: British
season ticket holder who had been hospitalized in life-threatening
condition at an intensive care unit with multiple injuries suffered in
the fatal Ufton Nervet rail crash that killed at least six passengers
on November 6, 2004 when a main service train
from London's Paddington railway station to Plymouth, England was
derailed by colliding into a stationary car parked on a level crossing
and injured about 71 other people in the impact after the Frist Great Western
train hit the car near the rural West Berkshire village of Ufton Nervet
as the train was passing through
while he was travelleing to a family fireworks party after a football
match at the time of the accident, in which police are investigating
whether the car's driver Brian Drysdale intended to kill himself.
Cause of Death: Injuries sustained in a train collision
Born: November 21, 1931
Died: November 7, 2004
Location: Reading, England