The thesis of the accident is privileged after the death on Friday March 4, in the evening, of a 15-year-old teenager hit by a TGV at the Relecq-Kerhuon station, near Brest (Finistère), we learned. Monday with the public prosecutor’s office of the city of Ponant.
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The young boy was mowed down when crossing the tracks after getting off the TER which brought him back from his music class in Brest, explained the public prosecutor Camille Miansoni. “He had to cross the tracks to join his mother who was waiting for him on the other side, but a TGV from Paris and in the direction of Brest arrived at the same time.“, he continued. “We will have to understand what signage is in place, how passengers are notified when there is a train coming, etc.“Said Camille Miansoni, adding that the driver of the TGV, “shocked“, had not yet been heard.
The station of Relecq-Kerhuon, a small town of nearly 11,000 inhabitants located eight kilometers from Brest, offers neither footbridge nor underpass. To cross the tracks you have to take a planked passage, according to the term of the SNCF. Luminous pictograms placed directly on the tracks flash to signal the imminent passage of a train. These luminous infrastructuresare not always respected by customers“, reacted to AFP the SNCF, saying”joins in the pain of the familyof the young boy. “The planked passages are infrastructures which by nature are the subject of particular attention, after there are all over Franceadded the company. She says she is carrying out prevention operations, particularly with young people, in order to alert them to the danger of these passages where trains that do not stop at the station pass at very high speed.