2024-03-04 05:48:31
“-401, 401? – No you can go to 402. – Damn I put it in emergency position. – We are driving too fast. – Brake, brake! » The injunction unfortunately turns out to be too late. At kilometer point 404 (PK 404), in the town of Eckwersheim (Bas-Rhin), just before a bridge crossing the Marne-Rhine canal, the two power cars and the eight cars of the TGV test of the last section of the high-speed Eastern European line (LGVEE) linking Paris to Strasbourg tilts then derails.
The noise is terrifying. Screams ring out. Part of the oar plunges into the watercourse. It is 3:4 p.m. on November 14, 2015. In a France in shock from the terrorist attacks of the day before in Paris and Saint-Denis, the first fatal accident of a high-speed train, the flagship of the SNCF and French transport, passes almost unnoticed. Eleven of the 53 people on board were killed. Forty-two were injured, twenty-one of them seriously.
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