She was one of 269 peoplebadlyinjured when a First Great Western express heading for London's Paddington station collided with a Thames Train service on 5 October 1999.
"The bear M13 had certainly never showed any aggression toward man, but the risk that an accident might happen and that people might be badlyinjured or killed had become intolerable, " it said.
"The police obviously have a very difficult job to do but if we had seen the circumstance today where three police officers had been killed or badlyinjured, that's all these people would have achieved, " he said.