This road joins up with the M62 motorway. There are 3 bus routes serving the parish Great Heck. The 486 bus travels from Selby to Hut green, stopping at five other locations in between including Great Heck. The 488 travels from Hut Green to Goole before stopping at seven other destinations including Great Heck. The 019s bus is a school service bus taking pupils to and from Holy Family RC School and The Snaith School. The Nearest coach stop is Goole: Airmyn Road Coach Stop. There is no railway station in Great Heck, the nearest railway station is Hensall railway station which is away. Whitley Bridge railway station and Snaith railway station are also very close to Great Heck. The Great Heck rail crash, also known as the Selby rail crash, was a high speed train accident that occurred on the morning of 28 February 2001. 10 people were killed, including the drivers of both trains while another 82 people suffered serious injuries. The crash occurred when a Land Rover towing a loaded trailer swerved off the M62 motorway just before a bridge over the East Coast Main Line. The vehicle then ran down an embankment and onto the South Bound rail track. The driver of the Land Rover tried to reverse the car off the track but could not. After exiting the vehicle and calling the emergency services, the Land Rover was hit by a Southbound GNER InterCity 225 heading from Newcastle to London King's Cross. The train was travelling at over 120 miles per hour (190 km per hour). The InterCity 225 was propelled by a Class 91 locomotive (No.91023) and led by a Driving Van Trailer (DVT). After striking the Land Rover, the leading bogie of the DVT derailed but the train stayed upright. Points to nearby sidings then deflected it into the path of an oncoming Freightliner freight train carrying coal. The freight train was travelling from Immingham to Ferrybridge. The freight train hit the wreckage resulting in severe to moderate damage to all nine of the InterCity 225's coaches. Just before the impact of the two trains, the speed of the InterCity 225 was estimated at 88 mph (142 km/h) while the freight train was travelling at an estimated speed of 54 mph (87 km/h). The closing speed was said to be 142 mph (229 km/h) making it the highest speed railway incident in the UK. Great Heck was affected for several months by a massive refuse fire in a privately owned waste tip that has resisted all attempts to extinguish it.