Rail trespass dangers

A mother whose son was killed on the railway is backing a new campaign to stop people trespassing.

48 people who trespassed on the railway in Yorkshire last year were involved in a near miss with a train - and half of those were in West Yorkshire.

Wendy Smith’s son Ricky was 15 when he was killed on the railway in Halton Moor, Leeds in April 1997.

Nationally, 88% of accidental trespass fatalities in the last ten years were male with around a third of them aged 18-25.