Rennes (AFP) – A collision Friday night between a regional train (TER) and a car at a level crossing in Condé-sur-Huisne (Orne) killed three people from the same family, among the four people on board of the car.
The accident occurred at 8:22 p.m. on the line Paris-Le Mans, was “three dead people on board the car, it seems, would have stopped the middle of the road “before being hit by the TER coming toward Paris, said on the night of Friday to Saturday to AFP Pascal Vion, sub-prefect of Argentan.
The deceased are a man aged about 80 years, a woman about 50 years old and a girl of about ten years, said Saturday at midday AFP the prosecutor Alençon François Coudert.
A fourth passenger, a woman aged about 80 years, was outside the vehicle when the shock occurred, “very violent”, this rolling TER time about “140 km / h”, according to Mr. Coudert.
The hearing of this woman shocked, hitherto impossible, to be held Saturday afternoon.
It will accurately determine family relationships between the four passengers. “The four persons were evolving in a family context, but the precise nature of the links uniting remain to be determined,” said Mr. Coudert.
At first, it was announced in the night by a representative . prosecution, “under protest”, the four passengers were the grandparents, their daughter and granddaughter
Other “unknown” in the accident, said Mr. Coudert “reason the presence of the vehicle caught between two security gates “of the crossing. “We do not know why he stayed between two barriers,” said the prosecutor
-. Level crossing with half-barriers –
According to the first elements of the investigation, it appears that the survivor of the accident or out of the vehicle to try to push it. “The train arrived and despite the implementation of light and sound signals, the occupants are not or have not had time to leave the vehicle,” had reported Deputy Attorney Cyrille Fournier, in a video interview released in the night by the Ouest-France website.
The car, a passenger car, “was dragged for several hundred meters and burned”, have stated their side firemen department Friday night.
None of the 34 passengers of the local train, which connected Paris to Le Mans, was injured.
They have initially been gathered in a hall of Condé-sur-Huisne, where psychological support system has been proposed.
They then, in the evening, returned to Chartres or Paris in buses chartered by the SNCF, said Mr. Vion.
An important emergency device was deployed to the scene of the collision, including 25 firefighters from the county fire and rescue service and a score of police.
At ‘Saturday morning, a tow truck came to remove the damaged car engine whose carcass was gone, according to an AFP photographer.
The rugged train, the damaged nose, then a was cleared paths in the morning, do we learned from the SNCF.
technicians inspected the tracks and in the late morning, traffic resumed in both directions between the Mans, Chartres and Paris, according to SNCF.
The crossing, equipped with half-barriers and a flashing red light, is located at the entrance of Condé-sur-Huisne ( 1,300 inhabitants).
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