Brétigny-sur-Orge train crash

In the railway accident Brétigny -sur -Orge derailed on July 12, 2013 against 17:14 clock in the station of Brétigny -sur -Orge Intercités of 3657, six people died. This was the worst railway accident in France since the railway accident at Nancy in 2002.

Starting position

16:53 clock left the Intercités 3657 the Paris Austerlitz train station on the way to Limoges Bénédictins station, where he at 19:54 clock would runs regularly scheduled to arrive. The train consisted of an electric locomotive BB 26000 series and seven Corail carriages, in which 385 passengers were traveling. The train was traveling on the four-track in this section railway line Paris -Bordeaux. Against 17:14 clock he passed 137 km / h train station Brétigny -sur -Orge on track 1, were permitted 150 km / h

In a soft, 200 m north of the station, a splice plate had loosened that was to connect two rail segments together.

Circumstances of the accident

As the train passed over the switch, the tab broke, the rail sections are moved under the load of the train against each other and the three rear cars derailed. The screw coupling broke between the fourth and fifth cars. The fifth and sixth car slid partially over the platform. After the accident, the fifth car was on track 3 and the sixth lay across on the platform. The fourth car was derailed.

The engineer of the train accident triggered immediately alarm, making the whole route, even the opposite track, has been automatically locked. Thus he prevented a return, who was in the approach to the station, drove into the derailed cars.

Follow

Six people were killed and twelve others were seriously injured.

The Evry Prosecutor's Office opened on 24 July 2013, a preliminary investigation for manslaughter and negligent assault.

It remained unclear why the tab is dissolved. The state infrastructure authority Réseau Ferré de France ( RFF) arranged nevertheless an investigation of all identical 5000 points in the French rail network.

Incoming emergency personnel were pelted with stones by a group of young people. Police tried to expel the young people. The police in turn was attacked with stones and was forced to call for backup. In addition, it should have come to plunder to the dead and injured by young people. The actual course of this incident, specifically the extent of looting is disputed. The tabloids would have shown him over the top, before most of the media wrote-off all vorsichtlos.