Bill Tarmey has revealed that the idea for the tram crash on 'Coronation Street' was originally his idea.
The actor - who played Jack Duckworth on the soap until last year - said that he suggested that his character be killed in a tram crash to producer Phil Collinson.
Tarmey wrote in his autobiography which is being serialised by The Sun: "Phil asked me if there was any particular way I'd like to be written out of the show. I hadn't given it any thought as I wasn't expecting the question.
"I said jokingly that I could come out of Dev's shop and get squished by a derailed tram. I told Phil he could get rid of a few others at the same time in the fatal crash. I thought he realised I wasn't serious."
Tarmey recalled the moment that he found out the tram crash was planned for the 50th anniversary plot, he said: "It was while I was preparing for Jack's death that I read to my horror about a tram crash that was going to cause death and destruction in Weatherfield. I'd realised that I'd sown the seeds of a plot in Phil Collinson's mind. Instead of using a tram crash to kill me off, he had decided to take my idea and use it for the deaths of others.
"It's a burden I'll have to take to the grave. I just hope the victims of the tram crash will forgive me for opening my big gob. There must have been cast and colleagues under sentence of death who thought, 'Thanks a lot, Tarmey'."
