Collision-TER TGV near Pau: Accident rodents?

By AFP source (with 6Medias) | LePoint.fr -

Nest rodents found near a faulty signal. Pets biting electric children which resulted in accident with the train.

This France Bleu Bearn, near Pau 17 injured in a train accident on July 40 was caused by rodents. Radio shows that the nests found near the cockpit above the traffic lights. The latter is broken, the accident, the green, led by TER to move, if it causes remain stable after the first results of the investigation of the internal remote pilot error signal. Probably this is the only mammal that can not be chewed electrical sons, was active on the isolation of the fault.

Rats causes a throttling effect. "We now know that the TER began to nod and do not cross the red light," said Allen Krakovitch last Friday, the security chief of the SNCF. The official summary of the first results of an internal investigation shows that this signal was due to green "to isolate the error occurred in the two sons of the top of the chain of the electrical signal."

Crushed driver

He said, the driver ran the red light, while the normal speed. "When TER was very green signal," he said. "He slowed down to see the high-speed trains, but considering that it's 120 km / h slower, but do not stop." The signal to green, then it would not be the case. "Now they want to know why we had these fault isolation. Still too early to say just now," he said. Electrical incident is a "special" not ready for (...)

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