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Bourg St Maurice train hits car
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A Bourg St Maurice-bound high speed train hit a car stuck on a level crossing north of Lyon yesterday (Pont-de-Veyle in the Ain department).
Fortunately both the car's occupants (who had got out from their vehicle) and the train passengers escaped without injury - the TGV train had just left the high speed track section to take the standard line for the final part of the journey. It eventually arrived about 3 hours late...
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Seems to be a very common occurence. I was on the BSM TGV in around the same spot a few years ago when we hit a man on a mobylette, we arrived 6 hours late. The man had been sneaking across the track when he was hit. He didn't survive.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
It's a common occurance for places with automatic and half-road barriers (or no barriers). Studies have shown that if the crosses closses more than 7 seconds before a train appears, many drivers will decide to cross. Of course, 7 seconds doesn't give people much time to clear if there are difficulties. So there's pressure on a the crossing times in both directions.
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