What's on the railway accident near Pau known

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Collision between TGV and TER in Lescar Thursday due to signaling problems. Six people remain in hospital.

The collision occurred about twenty kilometers from the railway station in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantique). TER TGV connects Paris to Tarbes hit on Thursday afternoon. After the preliminary Balance Sheet 40 injured, including two "serious condition." Causes of the accident are still unclear, the available evidence is updated throughout the day.

Circumstances

At about 17.30 clock at the Lescar (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), a small town located 18 kilometers west of Pau. Regional train (Pau-Bordeaux), the 80 passengers and TGV 175 (1). According to our information, he would have left the station in Pau, 17 hours a day, with. Towards Paris TER have the polling station at thirteen minutes. Both trains were on the same track. TGV I went ahead and reduced speed of 30 kmh, so I never get caught in the TER, 90 kmh on the road, and at the end take the Lescar community level.

Céline Royer, 40, on board the TGV, told AFP, issued a few minutes ago the captain of a statement that "to slow the train down because of the heat." After a few seconds, felt a violent blow. "Vi from the They shelving, projected some of the wounded. " Laurent, a young Parisian celebration of 19 years, presented to solve the phone, because it is the TER Cola says exit "uninjured accident" nor "observed a large bruise on her hip." This is the "infernal noise" in the accident, which impressed me, "the Eiffel Tower was collapsing around me."

Victim

According to a recent report, released on Friday morning, six people remained hospitalized after I (...)

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