After tripping over another traveler’s scooter, on the platform of La Verpillière station, in Isère, a woman fell on the tracks as a train arrived. She was violently rammed and could not be saved.
It’s a dramatic accident attended by visitors to La Verpillière station, in the north ofIsere, Monday, January 9. A woman in her fifties is dead hit by a train after tripping over a scooterreported our colleagues from Dauphine Libere. The facts took place around 7:30 a.m. The victim, like every morning, went to the station to take his train towards Lyon Part-Dieu and reach his place of work.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the fifty-year-old walked on the quay when it collided with the scooter of another traveler also strolling on the platform. After tripping, she got off balance and ended up fall on the tracks. At the same time, the TER in which she was to ride entered at the train station. Although the train was visibly traveling at a reduced speed, it nevertheless violently rammed this woman, which did not have time to clear the tracks before impact. The driver, meanwhile, was unable to do anything to avoid it.
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“Do we have to wait each time for a tragedy, a death, to secure the premises?”
While the victim was heart failure, the emergency services were called and quickly intervened in La Verpillière station. Taken care of by the firefighters then by the Smur (mobile emergency and resuscitation structure), she underwent several resuscitation attempts. Unfortunately, the 50-year-old did not survive. His death was pronounced on the spot by a doctor. Several witnesses to the scene, very shocked, also had to be taken care of by the emergency services.
Patrick Margier, the mayor of the town of La Verpillièrewas particularly moved and angry after the tragedy. “In the sector, La Verpillière is the second station after Bourgoin-Jallieu in terms of attendance, with 3,000 passengers each morning. Do we have to wait each time for a tragedy, a death, to secure the premises?“ he lamented to the regional daily, calling on the State and the SNCF to quickly put in place the necessary arrangements for the safety of the station.