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RAILWAY DISASTER: Crash Brétigny: End Rescue

 

Rescuers have completed their mission Saturday, July 13 at the station in Brétigny-sur-Orge where operations have continued to raise the cars damaged during the derailment train that killed six people Friday and for which the track of a hardware failure is preferred.

After raising in the early evening the most damaged of the four who are lying at the station Brétigny-sur-Orge car, rescuers do not have discovered other victims as was feared on the Paris-Limoges.

"We are now assured that there are no more victims" and the balance "becomes final, with six dead," announced on the site Prefect of Essonne, Michel Fuzeau. 

"He 'is more than 16 injured in hospital tonight," while the situation of wounded most severely affected is stable, he said after lifting the grace car what a telescopic crane of 700 tons specially routed.

The worst rail disaster since 2008

This train crash is the worst in France since the collision in 2008 between TER and a school bus in Allinges (Haute-Savoie), who killed seven college students.

Once removed the damaged cars, SNCF will seek to rehabilitate the track and catenary which will "last for several days," says Pepy.

"The sequence of operations is the train that will take the site in a different way. We are no longer in the rescue or in the investigation phase. It will be for her (SNCF, ed) to clear the way, instead of starting with the most drive south, it will instead start with the most cars in the north to make a clearance progressive way, "said the prefect.

Asked about the time taken for reinstatement of the way, he refused to comment. "It was them saying, I will not comment on this, this is the area of ​​the train," he replied.

A source close to the investigation said that six people were a couple of octogenarians, two young men of 20 and 23 originating in Essonne and a young woman of 27 years and a sixty original Limousin. "It is likely that both were on the train, while four were (broke) on the platform," the source said.

Alternative routes

Until three investigations initiated deliver their explanations, SNCF favors the thesis of the failure of a steel ten kilograms part in the referral system.

"The splint" metal piece that connects two rails, "broke away, she is detached, it is removed from its housing," said Pierre Izard, general manager of the railway infrastructure. She "came to be placed in the center of the switch, and in this place, it has prevented the normal passage of train wheels and would have caused the derailment."

The switch had been tested on July 4, according to SNCF. Half an hour before the disaster, another train had passed and no deficiencies were noted. Cars and the locomotive of Paris-Limoges were "upgraded any verification."

SNCF will control 5,000 similar parts of the network. "The reasons for the separation of the joint bar is the very purpose" of judicial and technical investigations, said Mr. Pepy.

The act of malice seems removed

His minister, Frédéric Cuvillier, cited obsolescence French railway infrastructure: "The situation is severe with a deterioration in recent years due to lack of resources devoted to the classics. "lines

The other tracks seem to spread, especially that of a weakening of the structure due to recent work and that of human error. The train, carrying 385 passengers, was traveling at 137 km / hour in the 150 km / h allowed.

The Interior Minister, Manuel Valls appeared to dismiss a malicious act mentioned by President PS of the Ile-de-France, Jean-Paul Huchon. "We do not have that feeling," said Mr. Valls told AFP.

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