Two to watch on the anniversary of the London bombings 7 July 2005
When the 7/7 bombers struck, hundreds of people on his train fled the carnage. But Tim Coulson stayed to save lives. Three years on, he is still traumatised.
We are sitting side-by-side in a sunny conservatory at Tim's home, near Henley-on-Thames, watching a documentary about the bomb that killed seven people at Edgware Road Tube station on July 7, 2005.
In this Channel 4 film, due to be broadcast for the third anniversary of the London bombings, Tim gives his first detailed account of the day when middle-aged businessman Stan Brewster died in his arms and he saved the life of a young Australian office worker, Alison Sayer.
He did not have to come to the rescue of people in the bombed train that day. He could have run back to his family and home like hundreds of others, but Tim made a split-second decision to respond to the agonised screams of injured passengers.
As people on the train began to panic, a Tannoy message from the driver asked those with first-aid knowledge to head to the back of the train.
Out of hundreds of commuters, Tim was one of three people who went to find out if anyone had survived the explosion. "People say, 'I can't believe you made that choice', but it wasn't a choice for me. It must be something to do with our human make-up. In no way have I ever felt any blame towards people whose instinct was to get away."
The Miracle of Carriage 346 and The Angels of Edgware Road will be broadcast on Channel 4 tomorrow at 9pm and July 13 at 7pm Hat Tip Alan
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