Brétigny-sur-Orge railway accident

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The derailed and overturned car no.4

In the railway accident in Brétigny-sur-Orge derailed on July 12, 2013 at around 5:14 p.m. in the train station of Brétigny-sur-Orge of the Intercités 3657, seven people died. This was the worst railway accident in France since the Nancy railway accident in 2002.

Starting position

At 16:53 of Intercités 3657 left the Paris Austerlitz station on the way to the station Limoges Bénédictins , where he scheduled terms are scheduled to arrive at 19:54 would. The train consisted of an electric locomotive of series BB 26000 and seven Corail - car in which 385 passengers were traveling. The train was on the four- track Paris – Bordeaux line in this section . At around 5:14 p.m. he passed the Brétigny-sur-Orge station on platform 1 at 137 km / h , 150 km / h was permitted.

In a switch , 200 m north of the station, a flat tab had loosened that was supposed to connect two pieces of rail .

the accident

Sketch of the course of the accident

When the train drove over the switch, the flap came loose, the rail sections shifted against each other under the load of the train and the three rear (# 5 to 7) cars derailed. The screw coupling between the fourth and fifth car broke. The fifth and sixth car slid partially over the platform . After the accident , the fifth car was on track 3 and the sixth was across the platform. The fourth car was also derailed.

The engine driver of the train involved in the accident immediately triggered an alarm, which automatically blocked the entire route , including the opposite track. In this way, he prevented a return train that was approaching the station from driving into the derailed wagons.

consequences

Seven people (three travelers on the train accident and another four travelers waiting on the platform) died and twelve others were seriously injured.

On July 24, 2013, the Évry Public Prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation into manslaughter and negligent bodily harm .

The fact that the tab came loose was due to poor maintenance. An expert report concluded that the switch was in a "state of unprecedented decay". The SNCF had been aware of this for a long time without taking any action. The state infrastructure authority Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) denied this, but ordered an investigation of all 5000 identical points in the French rail network.

Arriving rescue workers were pelted with stones by a group of young people. Police tried to drive the youth away. The police, in turn, were attacked with stones and forced to call for reinforcements. In addition, there should have been looting of the dead and injured by young people. The actual course of this incident, especially the extent of the looting, is contested. The tabloids would have exaggerated him before most of the media carefully copied everything.

Web links

Commons : Brétigny-sur-Orge railway accident  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SNCF timetable for the Paris – Limoges route (PDF; 236 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c Accident de train en Essonne: au moins six morts, des dizaines de blessés graves on Le Monde .fr, July 12, 2013. Accessed July 14, 2013
  3. ↑ Brétigny: bilan de 6 morts “définitif”, une pièce de l'aiguillage en cause on Le Monde .fr, July 13, 2013. Accessed July 14, 2013.
  4. ↑ Track plan of the station .
  5. ↑ 17h14: un train déraille à Brétigny-sur-Orge on Le Parisien . Retrieved July 15, 2013
  6. ↑ Livestream of the newspaper Le Figaro , accessed on July 12, 2013 at 10:50 pm.
  7. ^ "Apocalyptic sight" after the train accident near Paris. Article on welt.de of July 12, 2013. Retrieved on July 12, 2013 at 10:55 pm.
  8. ↑ Les Echos: France: Information judiciaire sur l'accident de Brétigny , July 24, 2013, accessed on July 24, 2013
  9. ↑ sda / mr: Insufficient maintenance led to the Brétigny disaster . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 8-9 (2014), p. 416.
  10. ↑ Catastrophe de Brétigny: des jeunes venus dépouiller les morts et les blessés ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on lejournaldusiecle.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lejournaldusiecle.com
  11. ^ FranceInfo: Pas de scènes de pillage après l'accident de Brétigny-sur-Orge , July 19, 2013, accessed on July 25, 2013

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '26.3 "  N , 2 ° 18' 8.2"  E