TGV traffic on the South-East high-speed line was severely disrupted during the night of December 24 to 25 due to a “personal accident”, causing delays for around ten trains on New Year's Eve. we learned from the SNCF. Traffic resumed normally on Wednesday morning.
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L’“personal accident” occurred around 8 p.m. Tuesday in the south of Seine-et-Marne according to the SNCF, immobilizing the TGV concerned and five others and causing the delay of around ten trains, forced to bypass the area. Several thousand people saw their TGV delayed from 1 hour to 5:20 a.m. on Tuesday evening.
According to a source close to the investigation on Wednesday morning, the driver of a train jumped off in the early evening, causing delays for around ten trains on New Year's Eve. His lifeless body was discovered a little later. The SNCF for its part “did not (confirm)” this information Wednesday morning, specifying that “the SNCF investigation was not finished”.
For the immobilized trains, traffic was only able to resume from 1 a.m., after the intervention of emergency services, the judicial police and funeral directors. The SNCF indicates that “all customers were taken care of” with the usual process (taxis, hotels for missed connections, etc.) and the most impacted travelers, in the middle of New Year's Eve, will be “fully refunded”.
Tuesday evening, the TGV Inoui Montpellier-Paris n°6206 was 5 hours late, while the TGV Inoui Brussels-Lyon n°9844 was to be three hours late, the Ouigo Paris-Lyon Perrache n°7805 4h40.
A second serious accident was reported in the evening by the LiO network. “A person was hit by a train between Montpellier and Sète. Traffic is interrupted on the route while our teams and emergency services intervene on site”we learned at 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, December 24. Several trains between Perpignan and Lyon were delayed.
