Brétigny-sur-Orge train crash

When

12 Jul 2013

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

48.61° N, 2.30° E

Description

203 public transit disaster in Paris, France

Deaths

7

Injured

192

Cause

derailment

2013 public transit disaster in Paris, France

On 12 July 2013, a train crash in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris left seven people dead and 428 injured when a passenger train carrying 385 people derailed and hit the station platform.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A train crash in Brétigny-sur-Orge kills 7 people and injures 20. François Hollande visits the scene within hours, calling the accident "a catastrophe"”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “accident ferroviaire de Brétigny-sur-Orge, tuant six personnes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “【フランス】パリ南部のブレティニー＝シュル＝オルジュで、385人が乗車した旅客列車が脱線し、一部がホームに乗り上げ、少なくとも6人が死亡”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page