Automated methods safely stopped the excessive pace locomotive after the engineer reportedly took his personal life
The driving force of a high-speed practice heading from Paris to the east-central French metropolis of Saint-Etienne on Christmas Eve jumped out of the cabin in an obvious suicide, leaving a whole lot of passengers to hurry away at 300km per hour (186mph).
In lower than a minute, the practice’s automated methods detected that the driving force was not responding, and turned off the engine and kicked within the brakes, in keeping with French state rail firm SNCF. No passengers have been injured.
“A workers member seen that there was not a driver within the cabin. And really shortly, he understood that, a number of kilometers earlier, he had in all probability wished to finish his life,” Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot instructed French radio community Franceinfo on Thursday.
The driving force’s physique was later found alongside the tracks. The Melun prosecutor’s workplace has opened an investigation into the reason for demise, in keeping with Franceinfo.
The driving force, 52-year-old Bruno Rejony, was a revered member of the crew and an “skilled driver,” having labored for the corporate for 27 years, La Parisien wrote, citing somebody at SNCF.
In keeping with the newspaper’s sources, the driving force was going by private difficulties and was “very depressed.”
“It might have been extra severe if he had wished to derail his practice,” Minister Tabarot instructed CNEWS on Wednesday. That assertion sparked an emotional response from rail unions and opposition politicians.
Rail union SUD-Rail stated there was “no message of assist” within the minister’s phrases.
Sarah Legrain, MP for the left-wing NFP equally known as out the minister’s lack of condolences for Rejony’s household.
Berenger Cernon, an NFP MP and former rail employee, slammed Tabarot’s “indecency and cynicism,” calling out the shortage of “condolences, [and] mitigation of the human tragedy” in his phrases.
Tabarot, who was appointed on Monday, defended himself by saying he was the primary to confess that the case was “above all a human tragedy.”
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