TER-car collision in Orne: three dead from the same family – Le Parisien

August 8, 2015, 3:22 p.m. | Updated: August 8, 2015, 3:34 p.m.

The accident occurred at 8:22 p.m. on the line Paris-Le Mans, has “three dead people on board the car, it seems, would have stopped in the middle of the road” before being hit by the TER was heading to 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 50 years and a girl of about ten years, said Saturday at noon the prosecutor of Alencon, François Coudert.

It is not known why the presence of the vehicle on the track


 A fourth passenger, a woman aged about 80 years, was outside the vehicle when the shock occurred, “very violent”, rolling TER at that time at about 140 km / h, according the prosecutor. The hearing of this woman shocked, hitherto impossible, to be held Saturday afternoon.

It will accurately determine family relationships between the four passengers. “Four people were moving in a family context, but the precise nature of the links uniting remain to be determined”, stressed François Coudert.

At first, it was announced in the night by a representative . prosecution, “without prejudice” that the four passengers were the grandparents, their daughter and granddaughter

Other “unknown” in the accident, said the prosecutor, ” the reason for the presence of the vehicle taken between the two safety barriers “of the crossing.

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.

technicians inspected the tracks and in the late morning, traffic resumed in both directions, between Le 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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