By Guillaume Laurens
Published on 16 Dec 20 at 7:45
updated on 16 Dec 20 at 8:44
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The evening was eventful Tuesday, December 15, 2020 for SNCF users, due to serial incidents on the rail network, around Toulouse. After a suspicious package in Matabiau, which required the evacuation of the station around 4:20 p.m., a problem arose in the wake of the technical installations at the station Castelnau-d’Estrétefonds, north of the Pink City, following a gas leak at a private home near the station. This disrupted traffic on the Montauban-Toulouse axis, some trains having accumulated several hours of delay. Just after, a person has been hit by a train, at the station Pibrac (Haute-Garonne), on the Auch-Toulouse axis. The line was cut for about four hours.
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✖️A person was struck by a train in Pibrac, traffic is interrupted on the Auch> Toulouse axis✖️Significant delays to be expected on the Montauban> Toulouse axis, consequence of a problem with technical installations at Castelneau d’Estrétefonds station
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The sexagenarian killed by a TER
Towards 18h30, on a floor passage (which is used by users to cross the tracks at the station, ndlr) of Pibrac, west of Toulouse, a woman was hit by the TER which linked Auch to Toulouse.
Despite the rapid dispatch of emergency resources by the SDIS de la Haute-Garonne, in particular the firefighters of Colomiers and Saint-Jory, supported by a team from the Samu, they were unable to do anything: the victim did not survive to shock. She was in her sixties.
Death having occurred in “a place accessible to pedestrians and unprotected ”, the gendarmes of the Toulouse-Mirail company will try to clarify the circumstances of the tragedy, but according to the first elements, the investigation is oriented more towards a desperate act.
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