webfact Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Excessive speed caused deadly train derailment in FrancePARIS: -- Excessive speed caused the derailment of a high speed French TGV train, in which 11 people were killed.Train operator SNCF said it entered a bend at 265 kilometres per hour, instead of 176 kilometres per hour, during a test run and started to brake too late.It was travelling from Paris to Strasbourg. -- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-11-20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 How very sad. RIP to the victims. France isn't catching much of a break lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandrabbit Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Scott, on 20 Nov 2015 - 14:29, said:How very sad. RIP to the victims. France isn't catching much of a break lately. I agree with your sentiments of sympathy but this is criminal stupidity by the driver, did you also read there were unauthorized children on the train? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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