France train derailment

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I don't know about youall, but, I think this and the attack on Paris may be related.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015...ent-idUSKCN0T310H20151114#qWJJXMlIUvoMLl5S.97

At least 10 killed as train derails during testing in eastern France
ECKWERSHEIM, France

A train undergoing a trial on a new high-speed line from Paris to Strasbourg derailed on Saturday near the German border, killing 10 people, the local prefecture said.

Another 32 people were injured, 12 seriously. Five more people were unaccounted for, as it was not clear whether they had actually boarded.

Environment Minister Segolene Royal said at the scene that the 49 people believed to be on board the trial run had included not only staff from the SNCF railway but also their family members and other guests.

The accident was caused by excessive speed, although it was too early to say why the train was going that fast, the prefecture said.

Royal also said that sabotage had been all but ruled out. But the accident jarred nerves coming less than a day after gunmen and suicide bombers killed 129 people in waves of attacks in Paris.

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I think the report laid out the cause, speed

 

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I think the report laid out the cause, speed

It did. But, I still have my doubts about it.

 

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Train driver denies excess speed caused derailment in eastern France

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - A French high-speed train was operating within speed limits when it derailed near the German border on Saturday, killing 11 people and injuring another 42, its driver has told prosecutors.

Local police officials had initially said that excess speed may have caused the accident, which occurred on a test run of a new high-speed line from Paris to Strasbourg.

At the time of the accident, some 53 passengers were on board the train, including staff from the SNCF railway, their family members and other guests.

Prosecutors described the train driver as "very experienced" during a press conference on Monday.

"He said he had respected the speed indicated on the map of the route," deputy persecutor Alexandre Chevrier told journalists, adding that the train's speed was 176 km (109 miles) per hour when the accident happened.

Pictures from a Reuters photographer at the scene of the train accident had showed the locomotive partly submerged in a canal alongside the tracks with other parts lying broken and detached in a field beside the track.

The train derailed when it approached a curve to the right just before the bridge, the prosecutor said. Prosecutors have not ruled out any causes for the accident, but sabotage or an attack were not their main theories, Chevrier added.

Nonetheless, the accident jarred nerves in France, as it came less than a day after gunmen and suicide bombers killed at least 129 people in waves of attacks in Paris.

(Reporting by Gilbert Reilhac, writing by Maya Nikolaeva, Editing by Leigh Thomas)

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